Pictures created by local schools and community organisations are on display around the perimeter of The Francis Crick Institute construction site.
The artwork was produced by people of all ages as part of a project sponsored by The Francis Crick Institute and managed by The Invisible Man, a social enterprise.
The aim of the project was to create an eye-catching open-air art gallery that would inform passers-by about the important medical research that will be carried out at the Institute when it opens in 2015 as well as what was being built on the site.
Children, young people and senior citizens from local primary schools, youth groups and community associations created art based on scientific or medical topics.
With the guidance of local artist Laila Brown, participants explored subject areas such as the story of medicine, the discovery of the structure of DNA by Francis Crick and his colleagues, today’s big health challenges and epidemics of the past and created visual interpretations of the themes and ideas.
Individual works have been grouped together to create colourful themed murals which now decorate the 3.6 metre-high hoardings around the site to protect people and property from the building works.
The murals cover a total of 170 metres and will be on display until the building is completed. You can visit the site at any time to see the art created by participants from One Housing Youth Project, Argyle Primary School, New Horizon Youth Centre, St Pancras Community Association’s Art Group, St Pancras Community Association’s ‘SHED’ Project, One KX, St Aloysius Primary School, and the Calthorpe Project.
