LBTV A Force for the community…
A new installation to this year’s Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights festival, Floating Islands by Mürüde Mehmet and 15 school children from Tower Hamlets, has made quite a splash.
Made from plastic bottles and painted in fluorescent colours, these vibrant Floating Islands show the waste created by plastic as the sculptures drift down streams in Jubilee Park. Working on the islands at an after school art club with artist Mehmet; the children of Swanlea School in Whitechapel, gave up their free time to create these truly thought provoking installations which have proved to be an extremely popular and compelling segment of the Winter Lights festival.
Visual Arts curator of Canary Wharf Group plc, Keith Watson commented:
This year’s theme is sustainability and waste reduction. This stems from Canary Wharf Group’s Breaking the Plastic Habit campaign which challenges the throwaway culture to ultimately become single-use plastic free on the Estate. Floating Islands truly encapsulates this theme, capturing the public’s imagination and pushing the conversation across all generations.
