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Grimshaw Foundation aims to establish a global education network to benefit a diverse range of young people in schools and communities and to promote innovative design, creativity and sustainability.

14/05/2026

🌿 Play Spaces Supporting Displaced Children

🌍 Playrise is a UK-based charity designing safe, transportable, modular playgrounds for children in disaster relief and refugee sites globally. Co-designed with Eritrean, Sudanese, and Palestinian child refugees alongside architects, engineers, and fabricators, the structures are adaptable to each community.

🏗️ Built from timber beams and planks fitted with metal connectors, the playgrounds incorporate some locally sourced materials, with attachments for play including nets, monkey bars, and basketball hoops.

🌱 The first prototype is planned for a refugee camp in Aysaita, Ethiopia. Through play, children experience creativity, friendship, and movement that support wellbeing, helping them develop essential motor and social skills.

💛 Playrise aims to tackle the lack of safe play opportunities for displaced children by recognising play as a vital tool for growth, healing, and hope in displacement.

📸Lewis Renald

07/05/2026

🌿 This month is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we wanted to share a creative project that is bringing joy to everyday spaces.

🎨 Looking for an outdoor activity to do with her young kids, artist Rachel started an adventure club exploring her city and came across installations that inspired her own, Dinorama, in 2022.

🚶‍♀️ She later connected with other creatives to create a walking and biking map, including other installations, making Sidewalk Joy, free public spots displayed on curbs, gardens, front yards and on the sides of buildings, with the aim of bringing joy to the community.

🌍 The map is now worldwide, with some people inspired by Rachel’s posts on social media creating their own.

✨ This continuously growing project brings whimsy to your local area, encouraging adventure, friendship and a sense of community.

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28/04/2026

✨ Thank you to all those who came to our 4th + Grimshaw Foundation Annual Art Lecture with in conversation with last week.

🎨 It was a fantastic lecture where Jeremy shared his career journey and the importance of people in his artwork and practice. In his work he explores social and political themes as well as history, bringing people together through art and shared gatherings that are impactful for audiences.

🏛️ Our annual art lectures are designed to share the importance of creativity as an essential skill for the future. This is the first lecture since Sir Nicholas Grimshaw’s passing, continuing his legacy of inspiring and encouraging the next generation of young creatives. We continue to invite students and teachers from schools we’ve worked with over the years, giving young people access to these spaces and opportunities to engage with artists.

📲 Stay tuned to our stories page for more highlights from the lecture.

22/04/2026

🎨 To mark our ✨sold-out✨ Annual Art Lecture, we’re highlighting another of artworks.

We’re Here Because We’re Here (2016) is an art piece by Jeremy Deller that memorialises the Battle of the Somme (1 July to 18 November 1916), a battle during World War I between British and French armies against Germany, resulting in several casualties.

Created to mark the 100th anniversary in 2016, commissioned by , and developed in collaboration with Rufus Norris, director of the , Jeremy worked with army volunteers and non-professional performers to bring the art to life.

He wanted a memorial that was not static, but that could be encountered in everyday spaces. The participants did not speak or reenact, but simply existed in transport hubs and unexpected places such as shops, each representing a real person who died at the Battle of the Somme.

They sang “We’re here because we’re here”, a protest song to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.

The artwork was a nationwide human memorial, kept hidden from the public, allowing for authentic reactions that were powerful and moving.

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16/04/2026

🖼️Sacrilege

🎨 artwork is often designed with audience participation in mind. With Sacrilege(2012), Jeremy recreated a playful, interactive version of Stonehenge, encouraging the public to bounce and climb on the installation.

🏛️ With Stonehenge being a famous prehistoric monument, the title “Sacrilege” suggests possible criticism that the installation is disrespectful to the site. However, it uses irony to make light of this and encourage the public to enjoy the piece.

🎪 Sacrilege was created at full scale as a bouncy castle and first appeared at the in 2012, and was later shown in London during the summer of the Olympic Games and across different parts of the UK.

🎨 This exploration of fun, as an artist who often engages with history, shows how Deller creates work that combines history with humour.

🗓️To hear from Jeremy Deller about his work, check the link in the bio for our annuals art lecture next Wednesday. 👆👆

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08/04/2026

🌈 Q***r Youth Art Collective: What was, What is, What could be

🎨 An exhibition that gives q***r youth a space to artistically express themselves, curated by the ***ryouthartcollective

🧑‍🎨 ***ryouthartcollective (QYAC) is the UK’s only national LGBT youth service specifically in the arts. It’s a collective of young creatives who meet for weekly workshops run by q***r artists, receiving mentorship and co-curating exhibitions.

✨ QYAC is entering a new era as an organisation, allowing young artists to lead alongside the community and alumni. This exhibition is a space for q***r youth to show work “beyond one facet of their identity” through different art forms, highlighting the importance of q***r storytelling in art and the importance of these safe creative spaces.

🤩A must-see exhibition

🗓️ Ends 22nd April

📍Camberwell College of Arts, UAL

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07/04/2026

🎭 The In Breath and The Out Breath by

🧵 A tapestry designed for that warmly welcomes you into the space.

🪡 Made in collaboration with the hand-woven tapestry is one of the largest they’ve made. It features custom colours, geometric forms and lines that mirror the movement of dance, acknowledging the relationship between contemporary dance and visual art, fitting for the theatre space.

🏛️ The tapestry was made to fit the function and architecture of the building, encouraging a sense of community.

🤝 With this piece, Eva invites guests to share the theatre space with a sense of openness and connection.

📍 Visit Sadler’s Wells East foyer and bar to view

02/04/2026

🎨 In honour of our annual art lecture with this month (22nd April), we will be highlighting some of his artwork.

🖼️ Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave (An Injury to One is an Injury to All)

📍 The Battle of Orgreave is a re-enactment from 2001 of an actual conflict that took place during the 1984–85 miners’ strike, a time when the Thatcher government was attempting to reduce the power of workers’ unions. It appears in the form of a live re-enactment, a re-enactment film and a research book.

📺 Jeremy witnessed the real conflict on TV at a young age and found that its coverage was mostly from the police perspective. This re-enactment challenged media portrayals and presented a more balanced view.

👥 More than 800 people participated in the re-enactment, many of whom were former miners and police officers who were part of the real event. It was also filmed and aired on TV at the time. Jeremy often works with performance and participatory art, involving people directly in his projects.

✨This piece is an example of Jeremy Deller using art to raise awareness and highlight real experiences in social history. This is a common theme in Turner Prize winners’ work, which often focuses on people and communities.

🎟️Join us for our Annual Art lecture to hear more about his work. Tickets in our bio👆👆

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26/03/2026

🎉 We are thrilled to announce that this year’s RIBA and Grimshaw Foundation Annual Art Lecture will be given by British artist ,who will be joined in conversation with

🎨 Jeremy Deller is one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists - Turner Prize winner, Venice Biennale representative, and most recently the creator of The Triumph of Art for the National Gallery’s Bicentenary celebrations in 2025. We are delighted to welcome him this year.

📅 Date: Wednesday 22 April 2026
 🕰️ Time: Doors 6:30pm | Lecture 7pm | Reception until 8:30pm
 📍 Venue: BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP

🏛️ The RIBA and Grimshaw Foundation Annual Art Lecture brings together the interdisciplinary worlds of art and architecture, celebrating artists from around the world and their relationship with the built environment. The series is central to the Grimshaw Foundation’s mission to create opportunities for young people from diverse backgrounds to access and be inspired by the worlds of art, design and architecture. We hope to see you there!

🔗 Link to book tickets is in our bio

24/03/2026

🗿A Place Beyond:Thomas J Price

🖼️A new sculpture by has arrived outside V&A East earlier this month, ahead of its opening on April 18.

🎨Known for creating large-scale sculptures on Black identity and challenging the underrepresentation of Blackness in art history, A Place Beyond follows this theme. It’s one of his largest bronze sculptures to date, standing at 18ft tall.

📱The young woman is casually holding her phone and looking ahead towards what’s described as a “horizon of possibilities”, which is a positive message for the new museum, especially as it’s being co-created with young people.

✨She feels relatable and represents a space that’s welcoming for all, in a way that is striking.

📍V&A East, Stratford

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