Art Block Ecologies


Over 12 weeks in Spring-Summer 2024, we collaborated with the children and young people of Art Block to explore how the spaces we occupy are part of living and ever-changing ecologies, as part of the Open Plan Commission, South London Gallery.

We invited the children and young people to imagine and share stories while exploring the relationships between the past, present and future ecologies of Sceaux Gardens.  We explored these themes in many creative workshops; using mask, map and instrument making, printing, audio storytelling, character design, illustration, cooking with locally foraged ingredients, filming, collaging, prop and costume making, experiments with green screen, photograms with DIY developers, and organic clay sculpting with Maymana Arefin.

The final outcomes included soft furnishing for permanent use at Art Block designed using work that was produced throughout the project; a short film written and directed by the young people exploring the lives and friendships of animals on the Sceaux Gardens Estate and a series of audio pieces capturing the young people’s musings on their local area and community.