After a competitive interview process, this January we launched an Artist in Residence programme selecting twelve artists to work with the local community over a three-year period to deliver portraits and community arts projects. Each residency lasting three months, with the artist based locally in a studio at The Community Hub in West Kensington.
Our latest newsletter gives you an overview on the draft masterplan proposals for the site, the feedback we have heard from the community so far along with numerous community initiatives including our new Artist-in-Residence programme, our first social and economic impact annual report, architecture in schools programme and the Earls Court Community Fund.
Our first artist-in-residence, illustrator Helen McCallum, has completed her residency! A total of 12 artists were selected at the beginning of the year, to develop portraits of the local community over three years, with each residency lasting three months and the artist based in a studio at ECDC’s Community Hub in West Kensington.
The Gallery is currently occupied by Anna Obert, a freelance and self-taught illustrator and owner of a small business AnnaObert Illustration.
The Earls Court Development Company’s first annual Social and Economic Impact Report has revealed that investment from ECDC has amounted to £7.8m worth of social value created to communities in the Royal Boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham.
We are pleased to partner with the educational charity Open City to deliver the ‘Architecture in schools’ programme (for the first time in West London) with eight RBKC and LBHF primary schools.
In February, we shared our draft masterplan for the Earls Court site, formerly home to the Exhibition Centres.
The Earls Court Development Company (ECDC) has today unveiled a draft masterplan to deliver on their vision ‘to bring the wonder back to Earls Court’. The ambitious redevelopment will see this long neglected, largely derelict 40-acre site in Zone 1 London reinstated as a destination for entertainment, innovation and excitement.
Our draft proposals for the site, formerly home to the Exhibition Centres.
We have opened a new Community Hub on Aisgill Avenue, in the Gibbs Green Estate, West Kensington!
