Projects Gallery
Camden Heritage Journey Mosaic 2026
Camden Town Unlimited
Camden Collective, Buck Street, Camden
Tracking the Heritage
This project was commissioned by Camden Town Unltd to celebrate the industrial heritage of Camden Town and relationship with the Regents Canal. It was part of their 'Tracking the Heritage' project providing more information to visitors of Camden to get to know its colourful history.
The border was designed by local school children making paper designs of iconic Camden buildings which were later translated into small mosaics made in a community workshop.
The main mosaic was designed by Debra Collis and then made in collaboration with a team of experienced mosaicists in reverse method. This was fabricated over a period of 6 months offsite, then finally put onto board and installed in position,
Kilburn Tube Platform Mosaic 2024
Green Vision collaboration with Transition Kensal to Kilburn.
Funded by NCIL Brent
This project was commissioned by Transition Kensal to Kilburn Town Unltd to celebrate the green themes in the local area. It is located on the Kilburn Jubilee line platform planting borders.
Themes were brainstormed in community sessions involving over 50 participants, Following the design stage, local community and schools were invited to get involved in a series of free workshops to help fabricate the mosaic. It was then completed by Debra and a team of professional mosaicists.
It was made using ceramic tiles, including local stones and ceramic lettering by a ceramicist from the nearby Clissold Park Studios.
Communitree Mosaic 2019
Edward Woods Community Centre, 60 Norland Rd, London
(with WEA (Margaret Cottier Award), Change Live Grow)
Project initiated by WEA who helped set up workshops with Change Grow Live (Alcohol Services). This inspired the community to get involved and brainstormed a design that could go in the garden area facing the community walkway.
It represents the different types of people and cultures who all live in the same area but make up a community (Communitree).
Volunteers from the community contributed individual birds to the design and helped complete the mosaic through a number of ongoing workshops.
The project was managed and designed by Debra and team.
Calypos Mosaic, Pepper Pot Centre, 2015
Project : Communal project with members and volunteers
Location : Pepper Pot Day Centre, Notting Hill
Project Manager / Design : Debra Collis (with Notre Art CIC - Beatriz Palmira)
Funding : National Lottery Arts for All Award
Through a number of workshops with regular members of Pepper Pot Over 60s Group, a design was discussed. As the members were mainly of Afro Carribean descent, dancing on the beach was a popular theme. The motif was inspired by record covers in the 1950s (Calypso music). Ongoing workshops continued where they made the mosaic sections together. Volunteers from the community helped to complete the mosaic which now hangs on the main lounge wall.
Eartha, Cat Walk Mosaic, 2018
Project : Community Project with children (yr 3 Gladstone Park Primary) & Elderly (Pepper Pot Centre)
Location : Willesden Green (outside Sainsburys)
Project Manager / Design : Debra Collis (with Notre Art CIC)
Funding : Brent Council Ward Fund with Willesden Green Town Team
This mosaic was inspired by the artwork of Louis Wain, who was a resident in the borough back in the Victorian era. His unique images of cats were transformed into mosaic, and this mosaic has become number two in a series of cat mosaics entitled the Willesden Green Cat Walk.
https://londonist.com/london/videos/willesden-green-street-art
https://artuk.org/discover/artists/collis-debra
Opening Event with Mayor of Brent and party
Louis, Cat Walk Mosaic, 2014
Site : Opposite Willesden Green tube station
Project Manager / Design : Debra Collis
Funders : Community Foundation
Project : Workshops in community space for volunteers
This mosaic was inspired by the artwork of Louis Wain, who was a resident in the borough back in the Victorian era. His unique images of cats were transformed into mosaic, and this mosaic has become number one in a series of cat mosaics entitled the Willesden Green Cat Walk.
Kilburn Times Wembley Blogspot Calling all stations
https://streetartcities.com/markers/1b293f1b-fff8-4856-a2c5-ed2a02ecc5af
https://artuk.org/discover/artists/collis-debra
Kensal Grn Pocket Park Mosaic, 2016
Project : Community Project with families and volunteers
Location : Pocket Park, Kensal Green
Project Manager / Design : Debra Collis (with Notre Art CIC)
Funding : Kensal Green Clean Streets RA
Local community including families and people of all ages came together to help create a mosaic for the park wall. The park itself had become derelict and not loved. New bushes and flowers were planted also and there was lively opening with the Mayor of Brent, music by Russell. Sadly, the wall that the mosaic was on had damp issues and so the mosaic has now been removed for repair.
Sidings Community Centre Mosaic 2017
Project : Communal project
Location : Sidings Community Centre, Kilburn
Project Manager / Design : Debra Collis
Funding : Heritage Grant
This project was instigated on a Heritage Event Day to celebrate 50 years of the Community Centre and its relationship to Sidings from the railway on which the site was located. This was followed by workshops with youth groups and art sessions who made the trees and the flowers. These were incorporated into the main mosaic which was completed in community workshops and finally by volunteers. It now hangs in the entrance area to this well-loved centre.
