New Public Artwork coming to Angel Edmonton!

Curate Enfield is a grassroots public art programme creating 5 new public artworks for the borough - one for each of our town centres:

• Angel Edmonton
• Palmers Green
• Enfield Town
• Southgate
• Edmonton Green

Young people and community leaders from across the borough have been recruited as public art champions to curate these commissions. The champions have selected the sites they would like to see transformed and enriched by public art; consulted their local communities for ideas and feedback and worked with local artist-mentors to devise and develop artist briefs for their respective town centres.

In Angel Edmonton, public art champions Alf, Camrhon and Dejani were mentored by Chantelle Purcell – artist, curator and founder of Hive Studios. The public art champions created a brief to commission an artwork that could provide a warm welcome to residents and visitors; and be inspired by the cultural diversity and local character of Angel Edmonton town centre. Following an open call out, the public art champions selected artist Rafael Klein to deliver this commission.

Over the summer of 2023, Rafael led creative workshops with pupils at St James and St John’s School in Grove Street and with local residents as part of the Fore Street For All’s London Lates event. Workshop participants explored themes around ‘angel’ and created 3D designs in response. These will be directly incorporated into ‘An Angel for Edmonton’ a striking sculptural artwork, which is currently being fabricated and expected to be installed on the green outside Joyce & Snells estate in late May 2024. The sculpture will be positioned near the border of Angel and Haringey - a fitting location to welcome residents and visitors alike. A mock up of 'An Angel for Edmonton’ is shown below.

This new artwork will be a welcome addition to the fantastic collection of public art that has emerged in the area over the last couple of years. This includes the Fore Street Murals - commissioned by Enfield Council and funded by the Mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund; Our River Lea poetry trail funded by Enfield Council through our Stories of Enfield programme; and Fore Street Open All Hours Gallery artworks on shop shutters and council owned bins, both curated by Fisher Cheng Architects & REACT and funded by Enfield Council).

Details of the launch of 'An Angel for Edmonton' will be announced on the key dates section of this page shortly.