This exhibition celebrates our Public Engagement work in local schools, a popular annual programme bringing free art sessions that address the themes of environment and climate change through the process of art. Our professional Artist Associates spend two weeks in residency at a local primary school, delivering high quality creative and educational sessions with local children.
Artworks produced by Year 3 students at Rotherhithe Primary School, created with Kandace Siobhan Walker, and Year 5 students at St James’ CE Primary School, created with Anne Ogazi, will be presented together in our Salter Space dedicated to community focused projects. Through the workshops, students explore the theme of ecology to include marginalised perspectives around how migration has shaped the green spaces around us and beyond.
ARTIST BIOS
Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Jamaican-Canadian, Saltwater Geechee and Welsh heritage. Her practice explores the intersections of personal history with wider social movements and systems. Her writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and The Guardian and has aired on Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4. She is the author of Kaleido (Bad Betty Press, 2022) and Cowboy (CHEERIO, 2023). Previous exhibitions include: Jerwood Survey III with Southwark Park Galleries, London, g39, Cardiff, Site Gallery, Sheffield and Collective, Edinburgh (2024-25); Turner House, Swansea; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; and a Wales Venice 10 Commission from Artes Mundi. Walker won The White Review Poet’s Prize in 2021 and The Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize in 2019.
Anne Ogazi is a Weaver, Textile Artist and Designer. She has been working as a freelance artist and facilitator in the community as well as in various museums and galleries. Her primary creative practice is arts and crafts. This involves disciplines such as weaving, collage, clay, paper mâché, batik, printing and origami. She also has experience in storytelling. Her main audiences have been early years and primary aged children and their families, as well as SEN families and groups. Anne has a strong theme of shapes within the natural world, texture and colour in the work she produces and is a strong advocate of using recycled as well as natural materials whenever possible.
The project is generously supported by British Land.
