‘Political Swing’ is a strange mix of a satirical, political and conceptual artwork. It follows a series of interventions on trees, something we’ve explored over the years…

This mural was commissioned by the first pacifist organisation in the UK, the Peace Pledge Union…

Artmongers have been active in this space on New Cross Road since 2008 with ‘The Deptford Marbles’, which saw three iterations, before becoming ‘The Deptford Arena’ in 2016…

Some murals are there to intrigue us. Why is it there? What is it trying to say? And what could it possibly mean?

We make art to provide solutions. So, it’s important to us to find out what happens after we leave…

The best thing about staying local is developing conversations with friends and acquaintances. Sometimes people come over to us and say ‘You know what you should do?’

This curved wall was specifically built for us to carry out this ‘monument to mother earth’…

This large-scale participatory mural was developed to address the specific environmental worries held by a group of people with different viewpoints from Oncativo, a town in Cordoba, Argentina…

In 2014, we asked our local community in London to support us to work with Syrian refugees at Azraq Camp in Jordan…

Between 2014 and 2015 Artmongers collaborated with Dulwich Picture Gallery on artworks for the Snowsfield Adolescent Unit at the Maudsley Hospital…

Artmongers were invited by Yarat – a contemporary arts organisation based in Baku, Azerbaijan – to run a three week education program…

Originally painted in 2013, we returned to this artwork a year later in true mongering spirit…

The Sunflower Project in New Cross, in collaboration with Grow Wild and Goldsmiths ran from 2013 to 2015…

In September 2012, Artmongers presented the New X-ING Relay to New Cross…

In 2012, we were asked to develop a series of pieces for CEDEPREM – a centre for the development of premature infants…

In 2012, Artmongers was commissioned to make a series of site-specific artworks, to address children on the Autism Spectrum…

A storefront that invites customers to not just shop, think…

In 2008, we devised a method of voting and lobbying for ideas to encourage more young people to get involved in our projects…

Wonderful and weird things happen when artists focus their energies locally and for a prolonged period of time. Artmongers initial strategy was to develop local relationships in four square miles in South East London and to make artistic interventions within it over a period of ten years so people got to know us. Johnnies DIY was one of these relationships. We started making exhibitions here while Neville run his business. Metaphor Sale was a satirical take on how tools found here are also used for the production of meaning.

Cowbins design was created by Artmongers in 2005 and commissioned by Lewisham Council. Julian Sharples and Patricio Forrester worked on the concept which used the cow´s five stomachs as a metaphor of reprocessing and recycling. Initially, we painted the neighbours wheelie bins without asking for permission and over seven years later, we were asked to create a recycling iconic bin design