MILL ROAD MURAL COMMUNITY PROJECT

While the Mosque was being built on Mill Road, Cambridge  in 2014.The Mill Road Mural, funded by The Arts Council, was created to hide the eye sore of the building work.  The theme was a  celebration of  the diversity of Mill Road and  each of the 6 artists working on the project chose a local community group to run workshops with to generate artwork to use for the mural which looked at what Mill Road meant to each group. I ran a series of workshops with residents of Jimmys Nightshelter on the theme of spiritual journeys in Mill Road inspired by aborigional journeys. Each participant created their own personal logo as a prinitng block to mark the routes they frequented in Mill road and they then created symbols to represent signifcant places annd experiences for them in Mill road. 

Workshops

Spiritual Journeys

Personal logos and symbols for the map

             peace between nations              beer, the park, traffic,                     kebabs,snooker

These Images were added to the mural

 

Artists painting the mural and translating artwork gathered during workshops to the mural

                                  Me painting