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 showcase at Battersea Arts Centre in March 2026.
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, 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), 29 January 2026, 11:30
Community Workshop
Kambala Estate Clubroom (TBC), 4 February 2026
A participatory workshop focused on local connection and creative engagement.
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 (Forget-Me-Not Group) 📅 Thursday 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 in a calThis 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, with stencils embellished using Posca pens to outline and animate forms.
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.