Rivers of the World 2020

Baginton Fields School (SEN), Coventry with Colin Yates: The students explored the use of charcoal drawings, painting with acrylics and screen-monoprints while looking at the River of Life.

Castle Wood School, Coventry, UK with Amanda Randall: The children represented the natural history of the River Sherbourne by making abstract paintings.

Corley Centre (SEND), Coventry, UK with Colin Yates: Pupils created clay sculptures of fish, which were hand-painted and paid homage to the film, The Italian Job which features the sewers of Coventry with several images of mini-coopers.

Kingsbury Academy (SEND), Coventry, UK with Amanda Randall: The children visited the school’s wooded nature area near the river and made drawings of the trees and insects which grew there. They particularly enjoyed the felt making and painting.

Sherbourne Fields School (SEND), Coventry, UK with Amanda Randall: The children made lovely textural drawings and paintings of the River Sherbourne and its surroundings, then enjoyed making textural paintings and felt reflecting the patterns of flowing water.

Tiverton School, Coventry, UK with Amanda Randall: The children’s mark making represents the flowing water and the vegetation of the River Sherbourne.

Woodfield Junior School (SEND), Coventry, UK with Amanda Randall: The boys visited the River Sherbourne and enjoyed painting the invertebrates they found and discussing how these indicated the level of pollution in the river.

Woodfield School, Coventry with Colin Yates: The pupils took part in painting and screenprinting activities inspired by the River Sherbourne.

Nazereth School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with Martha Hardy: Students decorated masks with their ideas representing the Merseyside cotton industry, their creations were curled together into large flower patterns representing the origins of cotton.

Ghion Secondary and Preparatory School, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia with Martha Hardy: Students brought flowers and natural materials from their homes to create their own symbols of new life such as pregnancy, a peace dove and a tree heavy with fruit. These were compiled into huge flower combining all their symbols.

Africa Andinet No.1 School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with Martha Hardy: Students observed that many of the Beatles’ songs were about love. What do we love? They asked themselves. Art, music, family and friends were some of their answers.

Fasilo Secondary and Preparatory School, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia with Martha Hardy: Students studied the Liverpool docks, huge warehouses that stored goods brought along the Mersey and across the ocean and then designed new dock warehouses, creating them from bright collage paper.

Menelik II School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with Martha Hardy: Students at Menelik II Primary School reflected on photos of Anthony Gormley’s metal sculptures that gaze out to sea where the Mersey flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Abune Gorgorios School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with Martha Hardy: The Merseyside Beat Poets put their lives into words with humour, rhythm and rhyme. Students formed their first reactions into poems, which come together to form a river of words.

Bolder Academy, Hounslow, UK with Shona Watt: Students created designs to represent their heritage based on the tradition of the Pearly Kings and Queens.

Brentford School for Girls, Hounslow, UK with Shona Watt: The girls made collages of plants and flowers found along the River Thames using plastic bags and wrappers.

The Green School for Girls, Hounslow, UK with Shona Watt: The girls researched the Garnet Shore beside the Thames, they made their own brooches using collage and lots of imagination.

Gunnersbury Catholic School, Hounslow, UK with Shona Watt: The design incorporates photos, taken by the students, of the plastic pollution found by the Thames.

The Heathland School, Hounslow, UK with Shona Watt: The students based their work on the Tower of London and the prisoners who were executed there.

Woodbridge Park Education Service, Hounslow, UK with Shona Watt: The students made designs based on the plants at Kew Gardens and The Queen’s Beasts.

Govt. Higher Secondary School, Aruvikkara, India with Leeza John: The students created self-portraits, as a way of reflecting that ‘we are what we consume’.

Govt. Higher Secondary School, Aryanad, India with Leeza John: The students traced the journey of water from the source to their taps and wrote about their findings.

Govt. Higher Secondary School, Ayilam, India with Leeza John: The pupils created the living organisms from the Karamana River from objects from nature itself.

Govt. Higher Secondary School, Ayilam, India with Leeza John: Students cut out local animal names from Malayalam newspapers, playing with varying sizes, colours and fonts.

Govt. Higher Secondary School, Neyyardam, India with Leeza John: The students recreated the pookkalam with everyday household objects, mimicking its forms and patterns.

Laure Meghayzel High School, Beirut, Lebanon with Joe Khachan & Noel Keserwany: A ‘Once Upon a River’ story forms the centerpiece surrounded by characters designed by all the other students.

Zahya Kaddoura High School, Beirut, Lebanon with Joe Khachan & Noel Keserwany: Students learned about all aspects of the Beirut River including its ecosystem and pollution.

Omar Farroukh High School, Beirut, Lebanon with Joe Khachan & Noel Keserwany: Students chose their final composition to be a reflection of the pollution caused by local factories and industry.

Omar Farroukh High School, Beirut, Lebanon with Joe Khachan & Noel Keserwany: Students focused on the pollution of the river and the need to take action because of the wildlife being affected.

Jamil Al Rawass High School, Beirut, Lebanon with Joe Khachan & Noel Keserwany: The students wrote their own stories about the Beirut River using heroes and villains.

Chobham Academy, Newham, UK with Shona Watt: Based on the John Knight & Sons Soap Works, the students took photographs and made carved soap petals and flowers.

Kingsford Community School, Newham, UK with Shona Watt: The artwork is a response to the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, the students created stylised designs using sweets and sugary treats.

Little Ilford School, Newham, UK with Shona Watt: Students photographed objects and rubbish which were then arranged in the shape of a nurse as a nod to more recent times!

The Royal Docks Academy, Newham, UK with Shona Watt: The students used metal embossing and sculpture to make images of fruit, flowers and sugary lips.

St Angela’s Ursuline School, Newham, UK with Shona Watt: The girls based their work on the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery and Keiller marmalade factory in Silvertown.

London Design & Engineering UTC, Newham, UK with Shona Watt: The artworks created by the students are based on the Silvertown explosion in 1917.

City of Peterborough Academy, Peterborough, UK with Jeni Cairns: Students made paper silhouettes using the wildlife of the River Nene as inspiration.

Ken Simpson Community School, Peterborough, UK with Stuart Payn: Students combined drawings, collage and prints of the river Nene's inhabitants and built-up environment.

Queen Katharine Academy, Peterborough, UK with Stuart Payn: Students responded to the fish and wildlife of the River Nene using mark-making, pattern and collage techniques.

St John Fisher Catholic High School, Peterborough, UK with Stuart Payn: Students produced a collection of fabulous collages, drawings and paintings of the animals and wildlife found in and around the River Nene.

Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough, UK with Jeni Cairns: Students made paper silhouettes using the wildlife of the River Nene as inspiration.

Peterborough Young Artists, UK with Jeni Cairns: Arts organisation Metal called for the young artists to respond to the River Nene. The city’s first young poet laureate, Faith Falayi was also commissioned to write a river poem.

High Tunstall College of Science, Hartlepool, UK with BloomInArt: Students explored, researched and responded to stories of local folklore from the River Tees.

Northfield School & Sports College, Stockton-on-Tees, UK with BloomInArt: Students explored habitats and wildlife found in and around the River Tees.

Rye Hills Academy, Redcar, UK with BloomInArt: Students focused on the River Tees and its industrial history.

Teesside High School, Stockton-on-Tees, UK with BloomInArt: Using found recycled materials at home, pupils created three-dimensional sculptures representing pollution.

Almihwar School, Khartoum, Sudan with Hajer Sulaiman: The students made three-dimensional models of key architecture around the River Thames.

Farouk Centre for Special Needs, Khartoum, Sudan with Hajer Sulaiman: Students made drawings and paintings of the wildlife and key landmarks around the River Thames.

Ivory International School, Khartoum, Sudan with Hajer Sulaiman: Students made three- dimensional models of the bridges and buildings on and around the Thames.

KGIS School, Khartoum, Sudan with Hajer Sulaiman: The students made paintings of colourful buildings surrounded by grey smog to highlight pollution.

SMART International School, Khartoum, Sudan with Hajer Sulaiman: This artwork represents the resources that the River Thames provides.

STEPS International School, Khartoum, Sudan with Hajer Sulaiman: Students researched cultural aspects of British life and made drawings and digital designs.

Dunda Secondary, Bagamoyo, Tanzania with Ernest Mtaya: The students imagined how the banks of the River Ruvu could look after redevelopment.

Jangwani Secondary, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Ernest Mtaya: The students portrayed how floods and other pollution affects the River Msimbazi.

Kikaro Secondary, Bagamoyo, Tanzania with Ernest Mtaya: The students drew bridges found along the River Ruvu.

Pugu Secondary, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Ernest Mtaya: Students used sand, straws and paper-cuts to create their artwork representing the River of Life.

Zinga Secondary School, Bagamoyo, Tanzania with Ernest Mtaya: The students drew the different economic activities that people do around the River Ruvu.

Beamont Collegiate Academy, Warrington, UK with Kirsty Hall: The beautiful patterns and colours found in Ethiopian artwork formed the basis for the students work.

Bridgewater High School, Warrington, UK with Kirsty Hall: Students investigated the flora and fauna of the Blue Nile and made collages from their findings.

Cardinal Newman High School, Warrington, UK with Kirsty Hall: Lake Tana has been created from scraps of fabric and denim. The hot sun is high in the sky to represent the climate of the Blue Nile.

Culcheth High School, Warrington, UK with Kirsty Hall: Students were inspired by the people and animals that live in and around the Blue Nile.

Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School, Warrington, UK with Kirsty Hall: The vibrant artworks created by the students have been transformed into boats on the Blue Nile.

Wade Deacon High School, Halton, UK with Kirsty Hall: This imaginative landscape has been created out of the beautifully drawn designs of the students.