Tuesday 13 May 2008

The Somerville Adventure Playground Mural

Our mural will replace exisiting artwork at the playground


by Lara Page

Year 12 BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design are creating a mural for The Somerville Adventure Playground in New Cross. We individually designed our own ideas for the mural and then came together as a group to combine our ideas in order to design the final mural.

We have worked well as a team and even visited the playground to ask the children what they would like on their mural. We were shown round by Reece and Connor who told us about the games the children played, showed us the football pitch where Millwall come to give football lessons.

The Somerville Adventure Playground is a registered charity and was founded thirty years ago. It caters for children from five to fifteen. A lot of the current playground artwork dates back to the 80’s and the art work on the football pitch is mostly graffiti based. It will be nice to make a mural that is big and bright and appeals to the younger children who spend more of their time in the lower playground near the hut.

We are currently having meetings and developing the work. We hope that the mural will be finished by the end of June.

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