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Church Street Community Living Wall joined: Crowdfund Westminster 3 years ago
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To construct and install a living wall and wicker man sculpture in Church Street using 1000+ flowers and green plants, moss and wicker made possible by community workshops.
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Public collaboration art piece led by artist/videographer/educator Ashton Merrifield and Community builder/Curator Wilfried Rimensberger, which reflects diversity and changes over time whilst solidifying connections across the local community and Church Street Market visitors from across London. Through this unsettling time in history marked by challenges to historic settings, needed visions and environmental threats, we are bringing people together using up-skilling, art-making as tools to bridge digital multimedia and nature in an urban environment, enhance social cohesion, having fun and be creatively productive together! After a series of public planning and up-skilling workshops, a number of photographic portraits taken by and representing local residents and market traders will be turned into an assemblage made of plants, flowers, wicker all mounted as a living wall.
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Why it's a great idea:
The living wall brings people together through learning and public artistic engagement, providing a sense of belonging and ownership. People form strong connections with each other, neighbours and visualise a connected outward-looking community. People explore the connection of living things, change and the place called home. This project helps overcome the challenges of gentrification and change.
Steps to get it done:
Plants will be placed in the structure by inviting the public during a community action day. The finished portrait will go through natural seasonal changes and can be renewed every year with different portraits. The project is documented with a video production including the changes of the artwork during the seasons. The wall is accompanied by a wicker man/woman installation made of wicker and juxtaposed by a flat screen.
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How will the money be spent?Total £17,736
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Total £17,736
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Millbank Creative Works is a local conduit facilitating a stronger sense of community and Citizenship by utilising creativity and sustainability concepts. We run free creative upcycling workshops at Tate Britain, have ensured that The Millbank Moat Community Garden grew from an antisocial behaviour space to a much loved informal meeting space of learning, growing food and relaxation that is now more or less self-managed by its gardeners. For example since 2016, our FoodTrolley is helping locals on tight budgets and often living isolated to feel valid and an appreciated part in our community. In conjunction with Chelsea College of Arts, we work with students and teachers linking them into local community project for the benefit of all. During the past 3 years, we have played a keyrole in developing Collaborate!. This is a new organisation fascilitating mutualy beneficial knowledge exchange and providing support templates between local community groups and higher education institutions. Most of our activities are accompanied by exhibitons of related artefacts. We participate in reseach into new ways of creating sustainable local communities as documented in the forthcoming MillbankAtlas book published by Intelligence Ltd later in 2021. We are also contributing regularly to TateExchange projects where the focus is to explore how art and creativity can play a pivotal role in societal improvements. In the past we have received funding from the local Ward Fund, Unlimited, Millbank TMO and delivered a local communith radio station, a local history film project and Recycling campaigns amongst others. In collaboration with the Tate's estate and sustainability team, we deliver regular free public creative upcycling worshops at Tate Britain. We regularly engage students from around teh world in local community projects and fascilitate the ceration of relevant joint projects and artefacts shown in exhibitions, placed in public spaces and initiating wieder public participation. Our activities are accompanied by structured and published research (Millbank Atlas, Intelligent Publishing Ltd), videos and subject to further explorations by international academics like Dr Marsha Bradfield, Shibboleth Shechter and Prof .Ezio Manchini, all exploring new ways of community engagement, creating/designing community values and social innovation.
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