City Year: Evolving Art at Monument
The City of London Festival is working with Year 6 students from Sir John Cass Foundation Primary towards a new visual art project at the Monument.
The Festival’s Education programme has devised a project called City Year: Evolving Art at Monument, to provide colour and life at the Monument site while it is closed for refurbishment. The Monument won’t reopen to the public until the end of 2008, when all the stonework will have been cleaned and repaired and its famous golden orb will have been re-gilded. There will be a range of new and improved facilities and, for people who do not want to climb the 311 stairs to the top, there are plans for live views to be relayed from the gallery to visitors on the ground.
Sir John Cass Primary students are the first of four groups who will work with artist, Richard Tait, to produce a mural for the hoarding surrounding the site.Their mural will form the first section of a much larger hoarding art work, which is due for completion by the end of summer 2008 and will measure a grand total of 21 metres in length!
The hoarding
Each group will create a painted representation of London cityscapes, incorporating north, east, south and west compass points from the Monument with an overlying theme of the four seasons. The artwork will include local history, using old maps of London, poetry and historical facts and figures about the Great Fire of 1666 and the Monument tower itself. The plan is to break the murals into four sections/four seasons/four viewpoints and install the panels during the season to which they correspond - every few months a new section of the hoarding is installed and unveiled.
The winter mural was unveiled on the 12th December 2007
The final autumn mural unveiling on the 17th September 2008
Visit www.colf.org for more details about the City of London Festival’s Education programme.
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Last updated:
4 November, 2008