Palmers Green Town Centre

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

• Palmers Green
• Enfield Town
• Angel Edmonton
• 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 Palmers Green, public art champions Aykut, Lydia and Nidal were mentored by local artist Alex McHallam and created a brief to commission a series of vibrant, eye-catching murals inspired by the cultural diversity, local nature and biodiversity of Palmers Green. Following an open call out, the public art champions then selected The Matchbox Collective to deliver this commission.

Over the past few months, Matchbox have created and designed the murals with local residents, who have participated in workshops to share ideas and produce motifs and designs for the murals. A total of four new murals are being created for Green Lanes and Broomfield Park and will be officially launched on Friday 10 November, as part of a wider tour of existing artworks in the area and supporting a new arts trail for Palmers Green!

See key dates section in right hand menu for further information about this event.

Please join us at the next community market held in Devonshire Square on Saturday 14 October 2023 10am-4pm, where we will share the latest updates on Devonshire Square and our plans to make this a permanent public square and community space.

Following a temporary redesign of this space by Jan Kattein Architects, to make the square a more welcoming, flexible, community space; different communities and local businesses have been testing out the versatility of this space by delivering a variety of events and activities on the square. These include public art, play areas, greening, al fresco dinning and hospitality and community markets.

At the community market on 14 October 2023 officers from our Journeys and Places team will be present to share what has been happening in Devonshire Square and the surrounding area over the past year and gathering ideas for how the Square's longer term design can accommodate and best serve the diverse communities of Palmers Green.

You can also share your ideas with us via the online interactive map here.

Enfield Winter Lights celebrated Enfield's culture and heritage through a series of incredible art installations, workshops and exhibitions across the borough during February and March 2022. Enfield Council partnered with local creative business Artist Hive Studios to deliver the festival and encourage the public to visit the many local businesses and restaurants that our borough has to offer.

This festival was funded by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ (DLUHC) Welcome Back Fund, established through a grant from the European Regional Development Fund (EDRF).

Highlights of Enfield Winter Lights in Palmers Green include:

• Half a Roast Chicken: It’s Nicer to Be Nice!
• Lauren Baker: Luna Woman Power Totem

Enfield Council would like to thank Artist Hive Studios and the artists, businesses and organisations involved in bringing joy, lights and positivity to our borough!