White City Families Help Create New Banners on Wood Lane

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Artwork celebrating Periodic Table's 150th birthday launches on 1 June

Families from White City have helped to create two stunning new Street Banners celebrating the 150th birthday of the Periodic Table in Wood Lane.

The images were made in a fun hands-on art and science-making workshop for local White City families held at The Invention Rooms, Imperial College London’s unique community innovation space. The workshop, part of the College’s Community Engagement Programme, was led by
Richard Kong, a postgraduate student from Imperial’s Department of Chemistry, and the artist Emma Davis from Riverside Artist Group.

During the workshop,families watched chemistry experiments and creatively explored the meaning of elements with art
materials. It is these chemicals that make up our extraordinary but everyday world.

From the workshop, Emma collected images for the two banners that will be installed outside White City Underground Station throughout June.

If you go out of White City Underground Station during June, stand on the pavement and look up at two tall lampposts to the left and right, you will see the Street Banners.

With images from artworks made by local families and designed by Emma Davis from Riverside Artists Group, they celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Periodic Table of chemical elements.

Visible to buses, pedestrians and passing traffic, this is a significant collaboration of arts and science, and a first for art on banners for H&F ArtsFest.

An official Opening Ceremony is being held for the banners on Saturday, 1 June from 10am till 11am on The Pavement, White City Station in Wood Lane, to which everyone is invited.