Adult Learners' Week Pocket Garden: Morley Mural

Morley College for Adult Education marks and celebrates Adult Learners’ Week 2011 by creating a vibrant, communal mural to be located on the 46 metres of railings that front the College on Westminster Bridge Road. The mural will transform the exterior of the college into a pictorial garden meadow, brimming with life and colour. The mural will represent a visible expression of what goes on behind Morley’s doors – a vivid showcase for all the skills and qualities which the college promotes and enshrines – as well as an exciting participatory project for the local community.

Accessible to all, the project invites contributions from the local community and utilises the skills and specialisms from across the college’s various departments, this will be an all-inclusive project, using drawing, painting, collage, etc, to depict natural forms of flora and vegetation, the imagery accumulating to create an eye-catching, artistic meadow or ‘pocket garden’. While the project will embrace many of the creative subjects taught at Morley (everything from drawing to textiles), it will also be accessible to all, encouraging participation from both skilled practitioner and willing amateur alike; the rendering of plant life lends itself to this; after all, just about anyone can draw a blade of grass!