As part of the Art at the Centre project, artists have been working in the town to create temporary art, installed in the High Street, to stimulate debate, test ideas, engage with local people and raise the profile of the project.
For the launch of Art at the Centre in 2004, two teams of artists worked with local residents to design two sets of colourful banners to be displayed in the Town Square.
Set one - created by Asham Kamboj, Ray Ward and Sasha Ward - included abstract images of local people who were filmed and then their images superimposed in front of buildings in the High Street.
Set two - created by Heather Young, Chris Teasdale and Jan Williamson - were mosiacs made up of colourful photographs of detailed items in Slough - from people to pub signs. The photos and resulting banners were colour co-ordinated and hung in the Town Square for six months.
8,500 years ago a coniferous forest covered the Thames Basin. 200,000 years ago mammoths roamed the grasslands.
Both were brought back to the present time in a special piece of shadow artwork by Maggie Ellenby.
Slough Museum has referenced Slough’s past and objects in the archaeology collection inlcuding a fossilised mammoth tusk found at the Orchards in Ditton Park Road in 1963 and Prehistoric fossilised mammoth tooth found in Taplow Gravel Pit in 1964.
The work was a gentle contrast to the present world of shops and offices.
The floor of the Town Square was transformed with colourful art in October 2004.
A team of volunteers joined artist Heather Young to block print the paving in the Town Square, creating a colourful and area right in the centre of town.
The project also looked at the impact of large scale artwork could have on the High Street.
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