Stockley Academy students art is on display at the Oxo Tower

The Art Department at Stockley Academy has linked up with a partner school Ganquan Foreign Languages Middle School in Shanghai, China. This has been arranged through the Mayor of London’s Thames Festival education project called ‘The Rivers of the World’.
This visual Art project links young people around the world through a common theme: their local river. Teenagers from the UK (London), China (Shanghai), India, Egypt, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico, studied their respective rivers and created an artwork inspired by their findings.
Professional artists Alex Buxton and Nina Ayres, worked with the pupils at Stockley Academy and the Head of Art, Miss Masani to create an artwork. Pupils studied the effects of pollution in the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China.

Our art students were inspired by the Artist, Hundertwasser and through the process of ‘felt making’ created an artwork made up of hundreds of concentric circles to represent the harmful effect that duck-weed and blue green algae is having on the Huangpu River. The felt beads were used to create a Textile Montage, which was both stitched together, scanned into the computer and using the wonders of Photoshop evolved into a final digital image.

We are delighted that the magnificent artwork produced by Stockley Academy students, along with work from other schools was published in a book and went on exhibition at the Oxo Tower Gallery on the Southbank during September. In addition the artwork will be enjoyed by millions of people in the next few months as the artwork travels to riverside locations in each of the participating cities.

As part of this exciting initiative, the Academy is planning other events and activities with the Ganquan Foreign Languages Middle School - keep visiting our website to keep up to date with the developments.

For more information visit our page on the project’s interactive website http://rivers.thamesfestival.org

Visit the website of the Ganquan Foreign Languages Middle School