The Curve Plaza
About The Sponsor
Slough Town Centre Business Improvement District (Slough BID) is a business led, not for profit organisation representing and working on behalf of 400 businesses, driving positive changes in the town centre. Our focus is to promote and improve the designated BID Zone by helping to make Slough a thriving, welcoming, safe place to visit, live, work and do business.
Business Improvement Districts nationwide provide a mechanism for businesses in a designated area to pool their resources and invest in agreed products and services. Slough BID was established in April 2020 has a mandate to deliver a set of proposals set out in our business plan over a 5-year term. We will be going to our 2nd ballot term in 2025.
About The Jazzy Mural
The roots of Jazz was forged within a melting pot of different cultures, much the same as Slough. The saxophonist is a busker called Joseph, he is painted in monochrome, creating a stark contrast between the monochrome and the colour, this illustrates that if you’re feeling grey and colourless, music can uplift you and transport you to a world of pure colour, joy and happiness.
The colourful flowers and musical notes dance happily out of the sax, representing the harmonious flow of life on the streets, life that is both vibrant and abundant. The mural brings a rhapsody of colours to give moments of delight to people as they go about their busy lives.
About The Artist
Maralin is a versatile artist, creating commissioned portraits and designs from her home studio in Burnham. She has a design background and has created designs that have sold in three major retailers. She has a creative mind, full of ideas and loves to design a unique piece of art for each person, bringing the client’s ideas to life.
Maralin is also passionate about creating work that helps a cause, or conveys a message, as shown in her Black Lives Matter collection and The Oz Bush Fire appeal, where she raised over £300 to help the rescued koala’s. Currently, she is part of a major ongoing project to help improve a town and has designed and painted a lamppost and a 13 metre brightly coloured mural.
Working in various mediums and materials, acrylic, watercolour, coloured pencils, oil pastels, mixed media and external paint (outside murals), she is a passionate artist with her own unique style. Maralin loves a challenge and will work on smaller scale paintings up to large mural scale work.
Website: mazchaplin.wixsite.com/arty1
Instagram: maralinarty1
The Gallery
At Artswork we strive to make the arts and creativity available to absolutely everyone. We aim to break through barriers and develop new ways for people to discover the success, empowerment and sheer joy that the arts and creativity can bring to classrooms, communities and careers. We achieve this through: devising and delivering inclusive programmes that empower the most under-represented in society; developing young people’s skills, for their own growth and as future cultural leaders; enabling children and young people from any background to find their voice, and encouraging others to listen and support them; providing paid meaningful, creative career opportunities for under 25’s delivering creative training that nurtures innovation and progress.
Curve Venue is a live performance space within The Curve, with entertainment and cultural activities for all ages. These silhouettes that you see on our artwork represent some of the types of performances we programme at our venue, whether that be from international or local artists. So, if you are interested in watching live music, dance, drama or something for the whole family, visit our website and see what’s coming up! Curve Venue is managed by StoryDen Ltd on behalf of a Norden Farm Centre Trust Ltd and Slough Borough Council.
Artswork
The Curve
Credits
Credits
Developed by The Slough Hub and Viva Slough
Mural created by Maralin (@maralinarty1)
Supported by Crown Decorating Centres (Slough), Queensmere Shopping Centre and volunteers from: