Curate Enfield

The Trees are Watching lighting installation_Library Green_Enfield Town_Artist Lauren Baker

Curate Enfield is a grassroots public art programme designed to produce transformative public artworks for the borough - across Enfield's main town centres and major hubs.

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.

Curate Enfield is part of Journeys & Places place shaping programme and plays a significant role in delivering the Journeys and Places remit to enhance our town centres and public spaces, and connect local people to local spaces for a more vibrant, greener and healthier future.

Curate Enfield is delivered in collaboration with Enfield’s creative sector and wider communities and aims to:

Beautify the borough
Inspire & delight residents; attract visitors 
Regenerate our high streets & open spaces
Add power to placemaking
Make our streets feel safer
Build the capacity of our local creative sector and boost residents’ skills
Improve individual & community wellbeing 
Promote civic pride & connectedness

Journeys and Places are committed to delivering and cultivating public art projects that meet the following criteria:

Projects that are site responsive and relate to a specific place, for example a building, park, high street or neighbourhood
Projects that offer genuine community collaboration, such as enabling residents to conceptualise public art projects, creatively participate, feedback on designs or take part in decision making processes
Projects that provide opportunities to grow our creative capacity, including delivering professional development for Enfield-based creatives, and offering learning & skills development opportunities for local participants, including young people through workshops and artists talks

Curate Enfield is led by Clare Moloney, Co-Place Shaping Team Lead: clare.moloney@enfield.gov.uk

Interested in delivering a public art project in Enfield and looking for further guidance and support? Please read our guidelines here.

Curate Enfield is a grassroots public art programme designed to produce transformative public artworks for the borough - across Enfield's main town centres and major hubs.

Curate Enfield is delivered in collaboration with Enfield’s creative sector and wider communities and aims to:

Beautify the borough
Inspire & delight residents; attract visitors 
Regenerate our high streets & open spaces
Add power to placemaking
Make our streets feel safer
Build the capacity of our local creative sector and boost residents’ skills
Improve individual & community wellbeing 
Promote civic pride & connectedness

Journeys and Places are committed to delivering and cultivating public art projects that meet the following criteria:

Projects that are site responsive and relate to a specific place, for example a building, park, high street or neighbourhood
Projects that offer genuine community collaboration, such as enabling residents to conceptualise public art projects, creatively participate, feedback on designs or take part in decision making processes
Projects that provide opportunities to grow our creative capacity, including delivering professional development for Enfield-based creatives, and offering learning & skills development opportunities for local participants, including young people through workshops and artists talks

Curate Enfield is led by Clare Moloney, Co-Place Shaping Team Lead: clare.moloney@enfield.gov.uk

Interested in delivering a public art project in Enfield and looking for further guidance and support? Please read our guidelines here.

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New COVID-19 Memorial Garden and Public Artwork launched
A new Covid-19 Memorial Garden and Public Artwork, has been opened to remember Enfield residents who lost their lives or were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Enfield Council funded garden in Monmouth Road is a permanent memorial and space for reflection.
Cabinet Member for Community Safety & Cohesion at Enfield Council, Cllr Gina Needs, officially opened the garden that was witnessed by local people from the emergency services who worked in the borough during the pandemic, members of local community groups, bereaved residents and Council officers. The opening was also an opportunity to give thanks and to recognise the dedication and tireless work that NHS staff, Council and Voluntary Sector undertook during the pandemic, with staff from North Middlesex University Hospital and other representatives attending the ceremony.
The Create Enfield team commissioned artist Rafael Klein to create a 'sculptural ribbon' for the garden and to incorporate residents' responses and ideas in to the design. The artist delivered a programme of creative workshops and community engagement sessions at Edmonton Green Library, Sunbridge Care Home; and Hazelbury Primary and Kingsmead Schools. Workshop participants were invited to explore their memories and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Enfield and to create words and images to express their thoughts.
The artwork weaves through two sections of the garden and incorporates residents’ creative responses, their memories and experiences of the pandemic; and carries their hopes for future.
To read more about the Covid Memorial Garden, please visit https://www.enfield.gov.uk/news-and-events/2023/08/new-covid-19-memorial-garden-opens