School visits to The Mosaic Rooms are free. All school groups need to book in advance of visiting.

When you book a visit, please advise us of any specific access requirements that members of your group may have.

How to Make a Booking:

To enquire, please email us at learning@mosaicrooms.org and we will ask you to provide the following details:

. Range of dates for your visit
. School address, telephone number and email address
. Group size and age of pupils
. Any access requirements

If you would like to discuss your booking over the phone, please call 020 7370 9990

We are open from Tuesday – Sunday 11.00 – 18.00.

Ideally, all bookings will be made at least two weeks in advance to ensure our small but wonderful team can organise your visit in good time.

You can find our access information here

We look forward to welcoming your group!

Key Stage Three resource for Constellations of Multiple Wishes

We are thrilled to announce that Sahra Hersi will join The Mosaic Rooms as our family artist for 2022. She will bring her thoughtful architecture and play practice to deliver our outdoor play commission this summer, The House of Many Ways, following our first – The Dancers’ Garden by Alaa Satir. Sahra will also present two free drop-in play sessions for families in May and October this year. 

The design for play commission is co-produced with local children and young people through creative workshops in April, as part of a collaboration with Earls Court Youth Club. The play commission will be hosted by The Chelsea Theatre whilst our garden undergoes essential maintenance work over the summer.

Sahra Hersi is a designer. She completed a MA architecture degree at the Royal College of Art in 2017. Her practice explores shared spaces, the public realm, community engagement, meaningful contributions, and collaboration. She describes her work as “caring about people, places, art & architecture, in that order.” She seeks to establish a working philosophy that is driven by the desire to reinterpret architectural methodology and artistic narrative as common ground. Her work is often born out of engaging with communities and the places they occupy.

Earls Court Youth Club (ECYC) brings together young people from diverse backgrounds and, is one of the best attended voluntary sector youth club in Kensington & Chelsea. ECYC delivers inspiring projects, engaging activities and wide-ranging programmes that support and motivate local young people. Their work is youth-led – with young people choosing and leading projects and activities. ECYC also distribute food to young people and the community. ECYC advocates for young people who have been excluded from school and for families with housing, immigration and policing issues.

The Chelsea Theatre is a community and arts Incubation hub based at World’s End in Chelsea Riverside. The 1960’s ‘brick-brutalist’ building offers a suite of six studios and meeting rooms, a community café and lobby venue, a terrace bar and a 130-seat theatre/cinema. The Theatre hosts a wide range of creative output, supporting emerging artists from the community, borough and across the city along with classes, support groups and a community café.

This commission is generously supported by Arts Council England and by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s Arts Grants Scheme. With additional support from The Earls Court Development Company.

Image: View of Sahra Hersi’s The House of Many Ways, an outdoor play commission by The Mosaic Rooms at The Chelsea Theatre, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist and The Mosaic Rooms. Photo by Nicola Tree.

We know that collaborative art projects which explore the lived experience of the people taking part are powerful tools for reflection and creativity.

Between Here and There was a collaboration between students from Kensington Aldridge Academy and artist Harold Offeh.

In The Mosaic Rooms’ first collaborative residency, students from Kensington Aldridge Academy and critically acclaimed artist Harold Offeh, worked together to explore ideas of place and belonging through mapping, recording and moving within their own spaces both inside and around their school.

The project was inspired by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti’s exhibition Stateless Heritage, in particular a large light box installation of photographs of the Dheisheh refugee camp by Luca Capuano. Capuano had previously photographed Italy’s World Heritage Sites for UNESCO, in 2016 DAAR commissioned him to take the same care to document Dheisheh as a living monument of ‘permanent temporariness’. 

Excited by the intention behind these photographs of the camp, and inspired to work collaboratively with students in their school environment, Harold Offeh worked with young people to map and explore their perspectives of and connections to, the space around us. The group worked together throughout January 2022 and created a public display at Kensington Aldridge Academy.

The project celebrated the installation of large scale vinyl at the school in March 2022, where students introduced their creative process and the finished works in person.

The Mosaic Rooms are committed to creating opportunities for creative learning and projects which are compassionate and useful for the people who take part. Between Here and There enables the organisation to work outside of the confinements of the gallery space.

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. . He lives in Cambridge and is currently a tutor in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2019, he was a recipient of the Nigel Greenwood Prize and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists. More about Harold Offeh