The Mosaic Rooms

The Mosaic Rooms understands that meaningful projects are a result of long standing and trusting partnerships. We know that high quality creative learning projects can deliver unique and powerful opportunities for connection and education. Therefore all of our creative learning projects are developed in partnership with the local communities around the gallery, including children and families, adults, young refugees and secondary schools. We offer commissions, projects, workshops, talks and tours online and in person. Our creative learning programme is artist led, often by creatives from the North Africa and Middle East regions or those from the global majority.

If you would like to find out more about our creative learning work please email learning@mosaicrooms.org.

Children and families are always welcome at The Mosaic Rooms.

You can visit anytime to play and explore with creative materials and sensory play activities. You can also attend one of our family workshops which are delivered by professional artists and play specialists.

Family Artist 2022

The Mosaic Rooms Family artist for 2022, Sahra Hersi, brings 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 a free drop-in play sessions for families in October of this year. You can read more about Sahra’s family artist commission here

Sensing our Way: A new commission for sensory-led family play by The Mosaic Rooms

In autumn 2022 The Mosaic Rooms are excited to present a new commission by Sarah Marsh to make a new series of objects and interventions which will activate The Mosaic Rooms and create a space for sensory-led, interactive, child-led play.

Upcoming family events

Saturday 16th July 11-3 The House of Many Ways Launch Party at Chelsea Theatre, Book here

Saturday 17th September 2-4pm Sensing Our Way with Sarah Marsh, Book here

Families online

You can enjoy some creative activities from The Mosaic Rooms at home. Watch here videos on our Vimeo page.

The Mosaic Rooms works in collaboration with local secondary schools on special projects which are artist and participant-led, and which are purposeful and relatable to the lives of those taking part. You can visit The Mosaic Rooms with your school; get in touch to arrange this by contacting learning@mosaicrooms.org.

School Studio: Mend and Repair

Commissioned by The Mosaic Rooms, artists Aya Haidar, Marwan Kaabour, and Rosie Thwaites are working with three local secondary schools to produce a four-week programme of workshops exploring themes of emergence, transformation and healing after two years of living with the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more about our 2022 Schools’ Project.

Between Here and There 

Between Here and There was a collaboration between students from Kensington Aldridge Academy and artist Harold Offeh which took place in January 2022. The group worked together to explore ideas of place and belonging through mapping, recording, and moving within spaces both inside and around this school and The Mosaic Rooms gallery. Read more about this project.

Lockdown Diaries: Over & Out

In summer 2021, The Mosaic Rooms worked with three local secondary schools on the project Lockdown Diaries: Over & Out. The project was led by artists Aya Haidar and Marwan Kaabour. During the month long project the artists invited students to use different story telling methods used by contemporary artists, to explore their personal experiences of the pandemic Read more about our 2021 Schools’ Project.

The Mosaic Rooms deliver projects in dialogue with young people local to the gallery. We aim for each project to be useful to and compassionate towards, the people who join us and take part.

IntoUniversity Arts Exploration Mentorship

In Spring 2022 we partnered with IntoUniversity to support young people with an interest in the Arts. This support included a visit to The Mosaic Rooms, a creative session with professional artist Aya Haidar, and career support and mentorship from the team.

IntoUniversity provides local learning centres where young people are inspired to achieve. At each local centre IntoUniversity offers an innovative programme that supports young people to attain either a university place or another chosen aspiration. Khadija Saye Arts at IntoUniversity continues the work of IntoUniversity with a focus on encouraging and supporting young people with an interest in the Arts.

The Mosaic Rooms Young Collective: Anatomy of a World

The Mosaic Rooms Young Collective invites young refugees to engage with the visual arts and learn new ways to consider, discuss and produce work as a collective. In autumn 2022 the group will work with artist Nia Fekri to take on a multidisciplinary approach in collaborative storytelling. Through speculative exercises, the participants are invited to create interweaving narratives, intersecting worlds and hybrid characters. The collective will visit other London cultural organisations and receive guidance and support on routes to further knowledge and education from IntoUniversity. The project will also include a paid opportunity to organise the public launch of the project at The Mosaic Rooms later this year. This is a partnership project with New Citizen’s Gateway.

Ikhtiar / Choice

In autumn 2021 we hosted a collaboration with young people from IntoUniversity and New Citizen’s Gateway in a project led by artists Zahra Tehrani and Nia Fekri. Find out more about their project Ikhtiar / Choice.

What Grows Wild

We are piloting sessions in summer 2022 with adults from Dalgarno Trust which celebrate art and herbalism, healing and repair. These sessions will be led by facilitator Rasheeqa Ahmad from Hedge Herbs and will take place both at The Mosaic Rooms and Chelsea Physic Garden. Find out more about this project here.

We welcome adults from local community based groups for tailored, accessible exhibition tours. If your organisation wants to visit us, please contact learning@mosaicrooms.org.