The Mosaic Rooms

Past Programme

Previous projects have included:

Survival Kit For The 21st Century

A way of rethinking the experience of contemporary culture from the perspective of young people in London; a personal tool for highlighting and selecting the most essential ingredients and values needed as the basis of an alternative new society. What would you take with you? What can you not live without?

Students selected relevant artefacts and wrote/created new ones, then collated them together into a survival kit. The new kit was hidden or camouflaged, in order to be discovered and put into use at the right time and place. The project was delivered by artist Dia Batal at Sion Manning RC Girls School and South Camden Community School in Spring 2012, involving students aged 12-13.

The Great Expression Workshop

Developed out of her residency at The Mosaic Rooms in February/March 2012, artist Laudi Abilama worked with students at Sion Manning RC Girls School aged 12-13 over a 3-week period. Using screen-printing techniques, the students responded to issues explored by Laudi in her project The Great Depression/Expression and made prints out of their written statements on t-shirts and other materials.

An exhibition of work arising from the Survival Kit For The 21st Century and The Great Expression Workshop took place at The Mosaic Rooms on 14th June 2012.

Transforming Narratives: Stories of a Diverse City

Taking inspiration from a previous Mosaic Rooms exhibition Poetic Inspirations by Mona Saudi, students explored what contributes to the concept of belonging, and the idea that communities can come together through drawing, photography, cork board printing, mixed media collage, and text. It explored the notion of identity in relation to the wide cultural diversity of the student body. The students collected stories from their own families and daily lives to capture how they experience their hybrid identity and how they negotiate these different parts of themselves. For their final piece the students created 3D story cubes forming a sculptural piece. The project was run by Dia Batal and Reem Charif at the local St Francis of Assisi primary school, with students aged 8-10.

Our focus is on local schools in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea but we welcome opportunities to work with schools across London. If you are interested in participating in our school projects please contact us at info@mosaicrooms.org