Rising Brook project introduction Down Our Way – Warts and all Living in Rising Brook The Rising Brook, by Steph Spiers, Rising Brook Writers Mural Gallery Photo Gallery Animations and a song |
The Rising Brook ProjectYoung people from the Rising Brook area designed a 6ft by 4ft mural to be sited Rising Brook Baptist Church.
The Rising Brook Project was funded by the Rising Brook Community & Learning Partnership and organised by Stafford Library with project manager Helen Wilson. The project celebrated fifty years of the Rising Brook estate. In addition to work on the mural young children from the Wednesday night Kings Club participated in music and animation workshops delivered by professional artists Alex Bradbury and Joe Wickens (four young children have taken up music since!). Young people from the Friday night youth club worked with local community artists Helen Wilson and Mark Uttley initially concentrating on portrait work and artists such as Hundertwasser and Warhol before creating designs based on their memories, the architecture and the history of the area .
The pictures show David Kidney MP, artists Helen Wilson and Mark Uttley and Library Manager Andrew Baker, and details of the mural. Sections of the mural are based on portraits of the young artists by themselves, part of the original 1940s design for the estate, sections of buildings (school, pub, church) and the idea of the Rising Brook itself. |
