Royal Docks Originals: The Pump House mural opportunity

Help us to make an iconic creative landmark in the Royal Docks.

The Royal Docks Team, Hive Curates and Projekt invite applications from artists or creative studios to create a mural launching Spring 2025 on a new work and event space, The Pump House, next to Royal Victoria DLR.

Working with local communities, the artist should draw inspiration from the theme of Transformation in the context of the surrounding areas and celebrate the untold stories and diasporic cultures of the Royal Docks.

Once the largest enclosed docks in the world, the Royal Docks is fast becoming London’s Cultural Engine – a vibrant centre of creative production. Together we hope the mural will be an opportunity to create a new landmark that the community will be proud of, forming a gateway and welcome point to the thousands of people using the Royal Victoria DLR.

Marking ‘six months to go’ and positioned at an entry point to the Royal Victoria dockside area, this mural will set the tone and demonstrate the ambition for Royal Docks Originals 2025. Lasting beyond the Festival, the mural will make a creative landmark that the community will be proud of, forming a gateway and welcome point to the thousands of people using the Royal Victoria DLR.

The artist fee is £7,500.

Deadline for Expression of Interest: 5th September 2024 midday.

Download the brief

We aim to make our application process as accessible as possible. We encourage applications from all artists and studios and if you require any assistance with your application or would like to submit in a different format please contact us directly by email via hello@hivecurates.com.