Pergola from the Gala Festival peckham platform Pergola from the Gala Festival peckham platform

Gala Festival 2021

EXHIBITION

Our Youth Platform presented a collaborative artwork at the 2021 Gala Festival in Peckham's Rye Park.

Details

This exhibition has now finished.

Peckham Rye Park

27 July 2021

After 18 months of COVID-19 restrictions, the Festival was one of the first opportunities for people to meet up in real life. Within this context participants developed work exploring and responding to themes of community, mental health and art. 

Our Youth Platform members co-created a new piece of work in the shape of a pergola. Its arched structure was layered with Batik, Ankara and other textures and fabrics which have histories in storytelling and craft-based traditions. This created a space for reflection and engagement, asking visitors “How do the arts help us find a community?”.

The work was developed as a result of a 10 week online Youth Platform project, Digital Tapestry, giving young people the opportunity to be part of a collaborative art making process, to learn about sound art and digital art, and to meet new people. 

More Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Southwark Education Research Project Reactivated

2018

Between 1989 and 1995 the Southwark Education Research Project engaged over 1,500 children and teachers by placing artists in fifteen schools across the London borough of Southwark.

image of the general public walking past Peckham Peace Wall

Peckham Peace Wall

8 August – 2 September 2012

This permanent public artwork celebrates thousands of hopeful messages of peace written by the local community on post-it notes and pasted up onto a wall on Rye Lane following the London riots of 2011.

My Model City, My Dream Today, Our Dreams Tomorrow

6 July – 1 September 2019

What might the city of the future look like? And whose ideas, needs and dreams should shape it?

Artists

Meet the socially engaged artists working with our communities in Peckham

All Artists