Chiswick Schools Put Their Stamp on the Jubilee

Large artwork featuring the Queen's profile to be displayed in shop windows

A visualisation of the artwork in a shop window. Picture: Abundance London

Later this month a series of outside postage stamps are to be placed in shop windows and other prominent locations on Chiswick High Road.

They will feature the Queen in her iconic profile and are the work of local school children in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

From 30 May retailers along the High Road, including shops, restaurants, flower stalls and other businesses are lending their windows to this commemoration of the Jubilee.

A major art competition was launched last month in all local schools, primary and secondary, by Tanya Saunders of Chiswick art club Make + Paint, in partnership with Abundance London, and London Borough of Hounslow's Summer of Culture.

Schoolchildren have been painting, drawing, sticking and collaging to create representations of what the Queen means to them, using the monarch's stamp head as a basic template. Winners were selected from each school.

These images will be displayed as large artworks in the shop windows along the High Road in the celebration fortnight from 30 May to 11 June, with the aim of creating a colourful royal processional of Queen's Head Stamps.

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May 14, 2022