This is a rather nifty art project making an important point: that there isn't much provision for food-growing on the peninsula (again I'm straying outside Westcombe issues, apologies). It culminated in a community feast at which locals harvested, cooked and ate the food they'd grown themselves.
It was done in collaboration with Stream Arts, which sounds like a great organisation, with its eye seriously on art but apparently informed by a driving principle that it involves the community in projects which benefit local people. Thumbs up.
A public art project on the Greenwich Peninsula, created by artist Kerry Morrison in collaboration with local residents, schoolchildren and their families, as part of Stream's Peninsula programme of commissions.
The artist researched environmental issues on the Peninsula, engaging with residents and experts in ecology, regeneration, agriculture, local history and weather systems. The current regeneration of the area, with few if any spaces to "grow your own", and its history of marketing gardening and cultivating cauliflowers, provided the inspiration for the project.
The artist worked with local residents to create a public allotment in the shadow of the 02 and to grow 100 cauliflowers, which were harvested, cooked and eaten at a community feast in May 2008, alongside other events and workshops.
Click here for the project site.
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