INYBB London Bridge Murals
Community Arts, Co-Design & Participatory Public Art
Over twelve weeks, I collaborated with It’s Not Your Birthday But to work with participants as part of a London-based NHS and HMPPS partnership programme to co-create a series of murals celebrating creativity, connection and community.
The project centred on building relationships through creative practice, inviting participants to develop ideas together before transforming them into a series of permanent public artworks.
Project Focus
Community arts facilitation
Co-design and collaborative decision making
Creative wellbeing
Public art rooted in participants' experiences
Building confidence through creative practice
Translating collective ideas into permanent artworks
My Role
Designing and facilitating creative workshops
Building relationships with participants over time
Supporting collaborative idea generation
Developing mural concepts from participants' creative briefs
Designing the final artworks
Painting and installing the murals alongside the group
Creative Process
The project began with creative workshops exploring drawing, discussion and collaborative making. Participants reflected on the themes that mattered most to them, including:
Connection and belonging
The local community
Nature
Hope
The freedom that creativity can bring
A collaboratively written community poem became the foundation for the mural designs.
Collaboration
INYBB
NHS
HMPPS
Programme participants
Outcome
The completed murals stand as lasting reflections of the relationships, conversations and creativity developed throughout the programme. More than public artworks, they represent a process of listening and making together. They demonstrate how participatory art can celebrate lived experience and leave a meaningful legacy within a shared space.
