Palmers Green Art Trail

Have a look at the starting murals of Palmers Green Art Trail.

Two are in Broomfield Park on the walls of the former football changing rooms above the Childrens Playground. The third mural is on the flank wall of Greens Café at 345 Green Lanes. 

These murals are part of ‘Curate Enfield’, a grassroots public art programme funded by the Arts Council, to create public artworks in each of the five town centres in the borough, including Palmers Green.

The Matchbox Collective of artists were commissioned for this project by the ‘Curate Palmers Green’ public art champions. The role of the champions is to select the sites that they would like to see transformed by public art, to consult the local community for ideas and feedback, to devise and develop artist briefs and to curate the commissions. 

The Matchbox Collective held a series of workshops with the local community to discuss ideas and came up with imagery to act as an inspiration for the artists and be developed into the art trail in the area.  The theme for the workshops was biodiversity, nature, cultural diversity, and identity.

Matchbox held workshops with Year 10 pupils at Laurel Park School; The Ruth Winston Centre; and the local Mental Health Trust’s Wellbeing Group who volunteer in the park on Friday mornings to garden and create art. 

The FoBP suggested that the former football changing rooms should be part of the art trail as many people pass by this neglected and graffitied building and that murals would enhance it’s appearance. We were pleased that this was supported by Curate Palmers Green and Enfield Council (as the owner of the building). 

for more info use these links:

• Download art trail map
• Palmers Green Community newsletter - details about the full art trail
• The Palmers Greenery Community Cafe - mural painting in action
• Matchbox Collective Palmers Green project
• Palmers Green Action Team - street Art
• Arbeit Studios
• Enfield Council Palmers Green Art Trail page