The Poppy container was created to commemorate Remembrance in Newton in November 2022. To continue our work on improving the physical spaces in the parish we commissioned Graffwerk to work with us and the community again to create a mural for the storage container that is housed on the Newton Community Centre car park.

Due to covid being on the rise at this phase in the planning (when 25% of the students at the local secondary school were infected or isolating from covid) we had to go for the consultation method once again of ‘multiple choice’, so that residents would vote for their favourite design. The Greater Creative working party were supposed to come up with three ideas, but they got that excited that they actually came up with 7 ideas for Graffwerk to interpret for potential mural designs!

We then posted these designs to every house in Newton early November (886 houses) so they could select their favourite design! Every individual got to select their own choice too.

This design was the clear winner with 43 out of 156 of the votes!

Jano from Graffwerk came to paint the winning mural shortly after

Here’s Tony (WP member) and Greater Creative’s project co-ordinator Lisa on the night it was painted. What a change it was too!

The other container we revamped was on The Newton Playing Field. For this project we worked with Newton primary school who came up with the designs for this project! Graffwerk created this piece inspired by the children’s selected carnival design!