With striking artworks from artists such as Phoebe Davies, Asma Elmi, Dione Jones, and Lauren Joy Kennett, JACK ARTS helped Ffotogallery take these windows into homes and challenges some people are experiencing to the streets of Cardiff and Swansea.

Take a closer look at an introduction into Phoebe Davies’ exploration of the physicality and personal narratives of occupying communal and competitive spaces as part of her body of work, Points of Rupture; the co-created project Rooted in Our Dhaqan, from Asma Elmi (founder of Al Naaem) which gives an insight into the intricate beauty, strength, and poetic nature of Somali heritage; Dione Jones’ views on bodies and identities without borders and constraints; and a piece from Lauren Joy Kennett’s book SORRY IM NOT SORRY which reveals Kennett’s experiences of living with undiagnosed autism below.

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Created for group exhibition The Children are Now, the work is a collaboration between artist Bob & Roberta Smith and a group of children from the Children’s Parliament – an organisation dedicated to the realisation of children’s rights. The artworks presented reflect on issues identified by children from across Scotland – including climate change, mental health and bullying, and vapes.

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For the Inform Women Transform Lives global initiative, Glasgow Girls Club and Glasgow City Council invited 30 young women from local schools, youth organisations and community groups to design artworks inspired by the work of Scots writer Len Pennie.

BUILDHOLLYWOOD Scotland supported the launch of the project by platforming the work in more than 25 different sites around the city – including our large-scale Tradeston 96 sheet – to coincide with the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, which raises awareness of modern misogyny and all forms of sexism women still face across the world.

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BBJ&K and JACK ARTS teamed up to develop ways WMCA could respectfully and creatively amplify the voices of past victims. Together with our Creative Studio, JACK ARTS came up with the idea to make a tree installation carrying incredibly touching messages from families who have been affected by road collisions.

The Letter Tree was unveiled by the Mayor of the West Midlands, Richard Parker, in Brindleyplace, Birmingham and there was a special moment for road accident survivors and affected family members to see the tree and read their stories. The Letter Tree will now be going on tour across the region in 2026 to continue raising awareness about the importance of road safety.

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JACK ARTS partnered with MAF once again to bring this year’s campaign to life across the city. For 2025, the featured campaign artwork came from the Manchester-based Bibianna African Art Collective, who represent the artist Agboola Emmanuel. His vibrant piece, known for its bold colour and strong visual presence, became the focal image of the fair’s street campaign.

This year, MAF also invited JACK ARTS to select an additional artwork from the full collection to showcase on one of their chosen sites. The selected piece was Manchester, Drag Brunch Cigarette Break by photographer Charles Eastwood – a striking image captured on Manchester’s iconic Princess Street. Displayed on a 16-sheet installation on the very street where it was photographed, the placement created a meaningful and memorable moment for this year’s campaign.

Adding to the experience, the 2025 campaign introduced scannable QR codes on posters, allowing passersby to instantly claim free tickets, creating a more interactive and welcoming approach to audience engagement. With exhibitions, talks, workshops, and more, Manchester Art Fair 2025 continued to provide a vital platform for artists while offering visitors accessible and inspiring ways to explore contemporary art.

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JACK ARTS helped Andy take Imagined Territories to the streets of Sheffield and Barnsley through a multi-format poster campaign inviting the public to reflect on what pride, identity and belonging mean here and now.

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These four actions – Be Good Neighbours, Secure Cultural Space, Be a Lighthouse and Be Inclusive were brought to life through a partnership between Eastside Projects and JACK ARTS, who showcased them across Digbeth in a street takeover and large 48-sheet displays, uniting the community around their shared goals.

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In a collaboration with The Baring Foundation, Art Angel hosted a regular walking art group for men, encouraging them to make art while exploring the city. The resulting work spans drawing, poetry, collage and cyanotypes – created in, and reflecting different parts of the city.

We brought these works to our drums located in the areas of the city that inspired them, alongside presenting a 6 in-a-row recreation of their large-scale wall map of the city, which developed and grew to host more stories and art with each outing.

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After first partnering with Suede in August through our Your Space Or Mine initiative – where her series, Everyday People, appeared on billboards across the UK, this exhibition marked a powerful next step in her creative journey.

Using our space, The CarWash in Shoreditch, as her blank canvas, Suede transformed the adjoining Platform and building’s exterior into a riotous expression of colour, chaos, and charisma. Inside, the space was reimagined as an immersive gallery space, spotlighting the city’s next-gen creatives through her high-fashion lens. Complete with a DJ and bar, floor-to-ceiling vinyl wraps covered the rear of the room, fully transporting visitors into Suede’s technicolour world.

Amongst the fifteen portraits showcased, there was stylist Valeria Chrampani; painter and actor Adébayo Bolaji, chef Abby Lee who runs Mambow in Clapton and UKG original and MC Bushkin of Heartless Crew.

The exhibition was Suede’s tribute to the artistic community that helped shape her career – an opportunity to give back by using her platform to elevate emerging talent while seamlessly blending art, music, and cultural style into her own bold and unmistakable aesthetic.

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The previously derelict billboards have been taken over, the urban debris cleared, replaced with carved stone installations by Paul Roddan, including a sculpture plinth that houses a rotating series of commissioned works from local artists as part of BUILDHOLLYWOOD’s Your Space Or Mine initiative, and now the first wave of biodiverse planting has begun. 

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The takeover presented their paintings of hope and unity from Europe Day, created in a workshop with Mission of Innocents – a charity supporting children displaced from their homes due to war, political or economic instability, and environmental disasters.

The partnership culminated in a very special gathering at the takeover site, bringing the young people, members of AUGB and the Ukrainian Consulate together to celebrate their community and its resilience.

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The mirrored installation will journey from the street to the Feel Good Club itself, to be displayed in tribute to the power of kindness, visibility, and mental health awareness in everyday life.

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One of the company’s recent collaborations involves P(r)op Artist Ramona Eve Bigwood, supported by funding from the Quartet Community Foundation. Together, they are creating a SHOWER OF COMPLIMENTS informed by workshops held with the Knowle West community that focused on themes of Sustainable Joy—exploring how we can be our own cheerleaders and maintain our emotional resilience.

Digital artist Daisy Hvnter transformed the community’s ideas into a bespoke Barbie themed billboard designed to inject warmth and joy into the typically dreary month of January. The installation is unveiled on Blue Monday, often dubbed the “saddest day of the year.” To mark the occasion, LIGHTS! LIGHTS! LIGHTS! Brought their Knowle West neighbours to the billboard sites for a unique celebration and interactive stunt, showering the billboard and passing public with compliments in a joyful homage to self-love and community spirit.

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To ensure every emerging artist had space to shine, we filled the streets with their work throughout the festive season, turning Sheffield into an outdoor gallery. From bold graphics to thought-provoking street art, the city came alive with colour and creativity. Artworks from the following artist were included in the display: Christopher Andrea, Daisy Schwarzer, Elizabeth Stewart, Georgia Parker, Halle Galimba, Harry Hutchinson, Harry Rees, Jake Dempsey, Jane Kim, Jenna O’Brien, Kaylin Staller, Lily Unwin, Maddie Hawkyard, Mia Hancock, Rochel Czerwinski, Sarah Corker, Shaun Bardsley and Annie Siddall.  The display was more than just a gallery of art—it was a celebration of the talent shaping Sheffield’s future, inviting the community to engage with and be inspired by the work of its next generation of creatives. 

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Since 2022 their Scotland-based members have been contributing short stories, memories, poems, photographs, and illustrations to open-calls on themes exploring their personal experiences, challenges and traditions – resulting in an inspiring archive of monthly zines.

For International Migrants Day 2024, JACK ARTS Scotland has partnered with Migrant Voice to share some of these stories, poems and artworks at takeover sites on Duke Street in Glasgow, and Wishaw Terrace in Edinburgh. The powerful narratives shared on street-level sites help amplify their message and bring visibility to their vital work.

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The new mural, developed with Lawless Studios and local school children, features spaces and buildings on Old Kent Road represented as vibrant fruit-label motifs; the labels depict places of worship, restaurants and community halls, a reminder of the rich cultural diversity of the area. The new bridge design aims to help to connect people and give a sense of the area being ‘a home from home’ for its inhabitants.  Our 10 in a row dedicated arts panels situated below the bridge, that show a rotating display of community arts initiative throughout the year, were transformed to highlight the key achievements and stakeholders in the bridge’s vibrant regeneration.  Paired with our large 48 sheet billboard on the opposite side of the road, the poster spaces provided a natural extension of the mural and backdropped the launch activities.   The celebratory event was a moment of joy and togetherness, with residents, council representatives, school children and businesses gathering to see themselves represented across the newly transformed bridge – a homage to the  exciting communities that call the Old Kent Road home.

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JACK ARTS partnered with Camden Council and Dhaga to showcase work by artists Aaran Sian and Sarith Ratnayake which weaved together stories unique to the local Queer and Trans South Asian community on our site at Camley Street underpass. The work, created through workshops for and by the community, explored themes including Queer joy, personal and collective histories, ancestral connections, navigating a Queer diasporic identity within the city, and the community’s visions for a more inclusive future.

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This spring, led by illustrator and artist Tommy Brentnall, The Hundred Club approached us to create a ‘Billboard in a Day’, inviting its members to work with typography, graphics, writing and drawing to produce a huge billboard design to reflect on the issues they care about the most – from war to housing, climate change to racism. After some careful planning and mini-modelling, the club’s young members created a splash on the streets of Woolwich, showcasing their powerful messages on a giant scale, giving passers-by some food for thought.

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Exploring a range of different Lomography cameras during a collaborative workshop with Tiny Changes, Scotland’s first national youth mental health charity, a group of young carers aged 12–15 years old were encouraged to view the world in unexpected ways through the camera lens. Over 400 images were shortlisted to 12 to showcase in a city-wide public art display across our poster site and drums in Edinburgh.

Khadea, who led on the project, said: ‘Our public parks are places we connect, shift our perception of the everyday through the magic of analogue. Through this workshop, we captured what it means to be outdoors in green spaces and finding moments of joy!’.

In the spirit of working to help young minds feel better, this creative project offered the group respite from caring responsibilities, a sense of belonging and connection to their local environment.

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To celebrate Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in March, this cheeky creative raises awareness that prostate exams are often not the intrusive and dreaded finger-up-the-bottom. Instead, a simple blood test taken from the arm.  

As such, even though the campaign appears to be bums on billboards – they’re much less shocking (and cleverly angled) shots of arms.  

Crowned Campaign’s Ad of the Day this campaign breaks down the stigma around a stubbornly taboo issue. 

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JACK ARTS Scotland partnered with Articulate to launch a new groundbreaking street poster campaign, #StartWithArts, taking over the streets of Glasgow with poetry written by the charity’s young Creative Changemakers. Amplifying young Scottish voices in bold black and white, the campaign celebrates a landmark moment for children’s rights in Scotland, the first devolved nation to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into domestic law, as well as highlighting the importance of breaking down barriers and challenging stereotypes. Articulate’s Laura Frood explains, “through this campaign, we aim to not only increase access to artistic opportunities but to transform lives and foster a sense of belonging within the arts community.” 

The posters included a QR code to find out more, encouraging passers-by to pledge to support their campaign, as well as take part in a series of coinciding workshops, exhibitions and events designed to engage and empower Scotland’s care-experienced youth. 

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On Valentine’s Day, Don’t Panic launched a ‘love calculator’ via their website, to help couples assess the compatibility of their relationship under new Conservative policy that comes into effect this Spring. Dubbed as the ‘Cost of Loving Crisis’, data suggests it would be impossible for up to 70% of UK workers, including nurses and teachers, to bring their family into the UK, as the earning bracket required for a visa is set to rise £29,000 in Spring 2024, and again in 2025 to over £37,000. 

Using our billboard site in Whitechapel, our new digital site near Shepherd’s Bush roundabout, and flyposters across London, we shared a QR code that takes passerby directly to the novel compatibility test. Featuring Rishi Sunak as Cupid, our sites and the QR code brought the campaign to life across the capital.  

Featured on Campaign UK, Marketing Beat, Yahoo News, and The Mirror. 

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We recently returned to Walthamstow for year-two of this project, and to no surprise were impressed yet again by the calibre of work created by the third-year art and design students. As a testament to our ongoing work with established and emergent creatives, we yet again reprinted and displayed them both singly and in compendium, throughout London, as a celebration on the streets of all the student’s efforts and imagination.  

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The artworks formed an interactive art trail installed at 5 locations at Bernie Grant Arts Centre, providing a visual exploration of the area’s past, present and future at one of the borough’s more important cultural venues. The artworks are paired with audio-tapestries which bring the voices of the community to the heart of the project; a multi-sensory display aimed at engaging the passing public and celebrating an influential close-knit community. 

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Bringing the exhibition outdoors, we partnered with Hackney Museum to create a pop-up gallery. Across two phases, we spotlighted a selection of photographs from the exhibition on the streets in which they were original made, such as Neil Martinson’s portrait of striking nurses from 1982, Colin O’Brien’s eerie photograph of Broadway Market’s frozen canal and Turner Prize-winner Rachel Whiteread’s famous image of the now-demolished Clapton Park Estate. Produced in large-scale across our billboard and poster takeover sites, the photographs remind passers-by of the importance of highlighting the rich historical tapestry of Hackney as well as how much the area has changed in half a century. 

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We teamed up with Books Are My Bag to bring their campaign to Manchester this year, working with two local illustrators to create a duo of hand-painted murals in the heart of the city; Maisy Summer’s in the vibrant Northern Quarter and Danielle Rhoda’s overlooking the bustling Shudehill interchange. Working with this year’s theme of ‘bookshops bringing people together’, both pay tribute to the vital part bookshops play on our high streets and within our communities. 

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The project aimed to change the perception of young people and encourage self-expression and sharing of skills in a creative setting. Changing the Narrative is a creative collaboration between Hackney based youth group Rise.365 and multi-disciplinary artist Hannah Dickins (aka Disco Dickins). The project saw young people partake in a series of creative workshops with Hannah where they developed meaningful artworks aimed to unify the community. The artworks were inspired by creative writing, typography and lettering, with additional vibrant discussions with Lola Oh (Writer and poet) in which the young people explored themes of family, heritage and purpose. The workshops provided the young people space and encouragement to turn their discussions and ideas into pieces of art in a professional setting.

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In the current climate, it’s not easy to sustain an independent space. The cost-of-living crisis has already caused plenty of DIY ventures to close or take undefined hiatuses – but Bonjour is determined to keep being the invaluable space that it is. In order to spotlight everything Bonjour has to offer and celebrate the publication of its limited-edition newspaper, we worked with Tom Joyes to share their fundraising project concept – ‘Yes, I can see the stars’ – across Glasgow’s streets.

Storying the communal experience of Bonjour through a gorgeous ’90s-inspired shoot that brought together many of its communities’ talents, the models, hair, make-up, photography, and styling transport the essence of the space to printed paper. Cosmic, blissfully hazy, and blending the future and the past – ‘Yes, I can see the stars’ evokes awe, excitement, confidence, and defiance. Showcased on our street poster sites across the city, the city became Bonjour’s own – just as it should be.

You can read more about our partnership with Bonjour here.

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 Its new concept, STORE STORE, is a shop and educational space that offers a weekly After School Club allowing young people to discover and develop their creative potential. They also showcase the projects and innovations by their students, with all proceeds flowing back into the education programme. We supported STORE by partnering up to showcase their new offering in Brixton, Hackney, Battersea, Portobello Road and beyond, with playful pastel street posters that caught the eyes of passers-by. 

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After its debut display hosted local artist Nicola Hussein’s work, the official launch of the project site featured pieces produced by Kender Primary School with Bernice Mulenga and Amanda Holiday. Made possible by the Future High Streets Fund, the installation is the first step in a wider, ongoing project to regenerate the bridge and its surrounding area. Until then, Under the Bridge is a gateway to involving the local community in the process. Read more about the project here.

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Working with thirty students from three selected educational zones in the borough of Hackney – William Patten Primary School, Stoke Newington School, and Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground – the project saw young people develop ideas and designs that would be shared far and wide through large-scale billboard displays.

Through a series of creative after school sessions, the groups worked on deciding their themes, designs, and colour schemes, with each participant bringing a unique voice and identity to the project. The talent of the young people was evident from the start, with detailed sketches, humorous caricatures, and large-scale graffiti pieces coming out of the first session alone, ideas being formed and focused with advice from working artists and professionals throughout.

The final outcome was three collaborative artworks that explored what creativity meant to the groups, and the designs were displayed on large-scale billboards across Hackney for the community to enjoy. Supported by Hackney Council and developed with Queen Mary University, the project has been used to contribute towards research into the impact of creativity and play in educational settings, and also featured in a new documentary developed by Queen Mary University film students.

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From the borough’s network of green and wet spaces to private gardens, windowsills, and doorsteps, the campaign with Fieldwork Facility aimed to inspire small actions to create big change. Together with interactive QR-code poster designs and protest-plaque style installations in key locations, it highlighted the need to let nature go wild, with ideas from adopting a local street tree to creating doorstep bug hotels.

With an ambitious target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030, the Rewilding Raves initiative and supporting campaign brought the importance of nature to the forefront, whilst transforming the borough from grey to green.

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The bespoke artwork highlights the wealth of plants and wildlife to be discovered along the route of The Line and in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and the blooming display was installed to mark the 10th anniversary of the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games.

To engage passers-by and park visitors, The Living Line features QR codes at the beginning and end panels. Linking to downloadable wildlife information packs and recorded audio of local schoolchildren, it helps to describe the pied wagtails, buddleia, and brown carder bees found within the illustrations, and in the green areas surrounding them.

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As part of the 2022 programme, alongside Studio Voltaire, we teamed up with Brent-based charity Metroland Cultures to bring a series of special commissions to the streets. Following an open call centred around the biennial’s theme, four artists were selected to display their works on our sites in the borough and in Studio Voltaire’s home of Clapham. Across four weeks, the revolving display took each artist’s piece or series to four different locations.

The successful submissions came from Sadia Pineda Hameed, ActionSpace artist Jorell Bonnick, Kamile Ofoeme, and Theo White. Having their own connections to Brent, each artist’s work presented the nuances of broader communities – exploring Black queer identities, fields of colour that equate to occupying space as a disabled person, hybrid languages and identities, and food associated with the Black diasporic community. Find out more about the biennial here.

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The result is a patchwork of colourful murals by local and international artists, offering art that everyone can enjoy. The project invites locals and visitors to enjoy art, architecture, and Glasgow itself. Gary Mackay, the Studio Director of SWG3, said, “Public art can create opportunity, dialogue and space for sharing stories and we hope to strengthen and deepen connections in the next phase of development.” As part of the project, we offered up some of our sites across Glasgow – for interactive and live-painted works that celebrated the environments and communities around them. 

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Curator Nicole Tatschl and creative director Kamila Szymkiewicz collaborated with artists, local students, and residents to create a programme that felt both representative and fruitful. Conversations among participants and their shared ideas worked alongside free augmented reality workshops – because it’s a medium that ‘allows for seeing things differently… to re-imagine, to recreate, to reinterpret’ – to produce AR artworks that reflected their concerns and covered a spectrum of issues from war to social housing.

Reimagine Newham culminated in a public exhibition at Royal Victoria Docks, making it Newham’s very first public AR exhibition. We worked alongside them to showcase it across the way in West London, with the 12 participants’ artworks featured on street posters for passers-by to scan and experience. As the borough with the lowest cultural investment in London, the Newham project was a wonderful way to cultivate connections and expand artistic engagement – showcasing art away from typical, sometimes intimidating gallery settings, and placing it right within London’s communities.

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Having received universal acclaim, Life Between Islands “explores the work of artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, alongside other British artists whose work has been influenced and inspired by Caribbean themes and heritage.” Centring around the formations of community and identity, it celebrates visionary artists, photographers, designers and creatives who have altered the course of British culture and transformed contemporary society through their practices.

Designed as a community-orientated extension to Life Between Islands, our pop-up street gallery with Tate Britain is taking over our billboards, as well as buildings, spaces and places across the capital, sharing newly told stories about London’s Caribbean communities and cultural heritage. It highlights cinemas, markets, clubs, libraries, community centres and restaurants – inviting passers-by and those intentionally exploring the route to hear the voices of people who have loved, used, and perhaps had their identity and work shaped by, the locations featured.

Stories from the likes of Steve McQueen CBE, Hew Locke, Grace Wales Bonner, Neil Kenlock, Wyn Baptiste and Ingrid Pollard cover Ridley Road Market in Dalston, Crystal Palace Farm, the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, Notting Hill Carnival’s Trini Hall, Alexandra Palace, Matchstick Piehouse in Deptford, and many, many more community spots, taking inspiration from English Heritage’s Blue Plaque scheme with over 40 stories and sites to explore.

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The project was created as an alternative response to the rise in the number of young people being adversely impacted by violence, which has been met by reactionary measures from the national government. Tougher criminalisation of youth, increased stop and searches, and greater police presence in majority communities has seemed to hinder – not help – the issue.

Kay was instead inspired to consider the subject of increasing violence through the lens of public health – which required looking into the mental health provisions for the demographic in question – or as it became apparent, the lack thereof.

Kay’s research took him to countries with world-beating measures of happiness, including Denmark, Bhutan and Sweden. While travelling, he uncovered eight factors deemed responsible for the ratings – which were used to form the basis of subsequent workshops for 13-year-old boys back in London. Involving poetry, discussion-based art sessions and photography, the sessions sought to develop the boys’ ways of expression, encouraging them to explore their sense of identity, and find new ways to manage their own happiness.

Now, Kay has worked with over 300 Black boys from ten London boroughs. The projects have been used to create exhibitions across the city – including Hackney Council’s, which is presenting 17 portraits of its own S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys.

We’ve worked with Hackney Council to help display the portraits in public spaces across Hackney – including on a trio of our sites on street-sides in the borough – alongside an exhibition at Hackney Bridge, bringing important sentiments about happiness and community-focused solutions to the fore.

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With Talon, we worked with the Scottish Government to broadcast their commitments to Edinburgh and Glasgow, projecting Net Zero promises onto each city, and making their eco-themed campaign a reality. This included environmentally conscious artwork for creative billboards – with foliage and natural-looking materials – to soften the city’s streets with a touch of nature.

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We worked with Made by Tottenham to raise the platform’s profile in the local area with a street poster campaign showcasing some of the community from the Made by Tottenham creative directory, alongside eye-catching, angular graphic prints in vibrant colours. Spotlighting all that the area has to offer, the campaign took over sites right across North London.

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The entirely crowdfunded exhibition celebrates the many people from different walks of life who came together at a time of unprecedented hardship to look after one another. Karishma Puri, the artist behind the project, was inspired to capture the images after establishing Covid Mutual Aid in Kentish Town. A WhatsApp-based community group, it was set up for neighbours to support one another and overcome isolation. “It was clear people were facing acute challenges. But I was also aware of a growing hope and community spirit. So I set out to capture this energy and resolve with my camera,” Karishma explains.

Jack Arts are delighted to be collaborating with Isolating Together to transform our poster space across Camden into a street gallery to support the project. Other displays will include community spaces and local shop windows. Each location was carefully selected from among the most meaningful venues in the area. The centrepiece will be displayed across a 14 metre wall at Number 19, the home of community action in Camden.

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With support from Hackney Council, Your Future Worlds sought to document the opinions of young people from the local area, looking at their hopes for and expectations of the area’s future. The project predicts how Hackney might evolve using the voices of its own community.

Originally intended as part of a physical exhibition, the project had to adapt to the pandemic – and so it was fitting for it to take to the streets it sought to explore. We were delighted to partner with Eastside and Syrup to showcase Your Future Worlds on billboards and sites in and around Hoxton, with a vibrant colour palette to perfectly pair with the surrounding areas.

While the project included the voices of a number of Hoxton locals, a few snippets had to be chosen to encompass its broader concept on the street. Spot ideas like, “There’s lots of opportunity here. You can start small but go big in Hackney”, representing Your Future Worlds’ wider themes: that the future of Hackney is changing, green, creative, ours, and much, much more. You can browse the project in full on the Your Future Worlds website, with voice recordings and graphic interpretations of the collection of ideas.

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