Create · Connect · Celebrate Our Diverse Borough
We Art Wandsworth is an artist-led, borough-wide visual arts programme for London Borough of Culture 2025, creating, connecting, and celebrating our diverse borough.
Bringing together artists, community organisations, and residents, the programme connects creative activity happening across Wandsworth into a shared, visible journey. Through workshops, artist-led events, and exhibitions in accessible, community-facing venues, We Art Wandsworth invites people not just to view art — but to take part. We Art Wandsworth is supported by a London Borough of Culture 2025 grant.
The Vision
Wandsworth has a thriving visual arts scene, working brilliantly at a local level.
We Art Wandsworth brings these strands together — creating moments of connection across neighbourhoods, generations, and communities.
The programme focuses on:
- participation over spectatorship
- collaboration over silos
- visibility for artists and communities alike
This is about making visual arts part of everyday life across the borough — in libraries, schools, studios, galleries, and shared spaces.
We Art Wandsworth unfolds across two connected phases:
Autumn 2025 – February 2026Create Together
Artist-led workshop and talks delivered across the borough. Activities take place in accessible venues including libraries, community spaces, Sprout Arts, and Putney School of Art & Design.
This phase centres on:
- hands-on creative workshops
- artist-led talks and demonstrations
- curriculum-linked and community outreach activity
- creative wellbeing and connection
Some work created during this phase will be exhibited in Phase 2.
January 2026 – March 2026Celebrate Together
A series of exhibitions and public showcases bringing together professional, emerging, and community-created work.
Exhibitions will take place at:
- Community Spaces
- Sprout Arts
- Putney School of Art & Design
- Battersea Arts Centre
The programme culminates in a borough-wide visual arts celebration at Battersea Arts Centre in March 2026.
Upcoming Workshops
📍 Battersea Arts Centre 📅 23 January 2026, 11:00 Faceless Self-Portrait with Tiah
Led by neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist Tiah Algalarrondo, this inclusive textile-based workshop invites participants to explore identity using scrap fabrics, felt, and thread — creating expressive self-portraits without facial features. Participants will also contribute fabric speech bubbles reflecting on Wandsworth as London Borough of Culture, combining art-making with reflection and voice.
📍 Balham Library 📅 29 January 2026, 11:30 Stencil Art with Felicity Prazak
Delivered in partnership with Balham Library’s Forget-Me-Not Group, the session supports creativity, memory, and social connection. This dementia-friendly workshop is led by visual artist and educator Felicity Prazak, whose practice centres on confidence-building and accessible creativity. Participants will explore Felicity’s signature layered stencil technique, building imagery inspired by Wandsworth’s paths, greenery, and foliage.
Art in the CommunitySpotlight
As part of We Art Wandsworth, a series of community art workshops were delivered through Putney School of Art and Design’s Community Art Programme, working in close partnership with Mushkil Aasaan and supported by EMHIP (Ethnicity Mental Health Improvement Project).
Across November and December, artist-led sessions brought together women from the Mehfil Group at Mushkil Aasaan for hands-on, tactile making using colour, paint, fabric and textured materials. These workshops created a calm, welcoming space for conversation, creativity and shared making — where stories, memories and cultural expression were explored through touch, pattern and colour.
The sessions centred wellbeing, connection and creative confidence, recognising art as a powerful tool for reflection and belonging. The artworks created are richly layered, expressive and deeply personal — shaped by collective making rather than individual outcomes.
Selected works from these workshops will be exhibited as part of We Art Wandsworth at Battersea Arts Centre, ensuring that community voices and lived experiences are visible within the wider borough-wide programme.
Community Call Out Is your community group or charity creating art?
We Art Wandsworth is inviting community-led creative work to be part of a borough-wide celebration, with opportunities for expert support, visibility, and potential display at Battersea Arts Centre. We would love to hear from you!
weartwandsworth@gmail.com
We Art WandsworthJoin us in celebrating our diverse borough
Get InvolvedWorkshops & Activities
We Art Wandsworth offers free or low-cost workshops led by professional artists. Events are suitable for a wide range of ages and experience levels — no prior art experience needed.
Limited Seats per workshop. Please reserve your place below.
Faceless Self-Portrait Workshop — Tiah Algalarrondo
An inclusive textile-based workshop exploring identity, voice, and community through non-traditional portraiture.
Battersea Arts Centre. Friday, 23 January 2026, 11:00
Stencil Art Workshop — Felicity Prazak
A dementia-friendly session using Felicity’s layered stencil technique, inspired by Wandsworth’s paths, greenery, and foliage.
Balham Library (Forget-Me-Not Group). Thursday, 29 January 2026, 11:30
Community Workshop
Kambala Estate Clubroom (TBC), Wednesday, 4 February 2026
A participatory workshop focused on local connection and creative engagement.
Get InvolvedExhibitions
Sprout Arts 27 Jan - 7 Feb 2026
74 Moyser Road
Furzedown
London SW16 6SQ
Putney School of Art and Design 2 Feb - 28 Feb 2026
Oxford Road
London SW15 2LQ
Battersea Arts Centre 16 Mar - 28 Mar 2026
Lavender Hill
London SW11 5TN
Community Call Out Is your community group or charity creating art?
We Art Wandsworth is inviting community organisations, charities and grassroots groups across the borough to take part in a shared visual arts programme for London Borough of Culture 2025.
If your organisation is already creating artwork with your community or beneficiaries — we would love to hear from you.
This is an opportunity to bring community-led creativity together, celebrate it collectively, and give it wider visibility across the borough.
What’s on Offer?
• Opportunity to spotlight existing artwork
• Potential inclusion in the We Art Wandsworth exhibition at Battersea Arts Centre
• Curatorial and practical advice on display and installation
• Feature across We Art Wandsworth communications and social media
• Free or highly subsidised participation (conditions apply)
Email us today
Tell us who you are, what you’re making, and how you’d like to take part.