Paint the Change

Paint the Change Celebrating local heroes around London and the world. We use street art and videos for social justice and give young people a new medium to express themselves.

Contact: [email protected] Street art for social justice around the world

24/07/2026

What’s happening in Greenwich, south London!?

Come to on Sunday, July 26, paint with us and find out.
110 Trafalgar Road, London SE10 9UW
Everyone’s welcome!

We are so excited to officially launch the Cleaner Greener East London campaign with the launch of our first mural in ...
13/07/2026

We are so excited to officially launch the Cleaner Greener East London campaign with the launch of our first mural in

Come along and take part in the community painting day, learn more about the campaign and help create a cleaner greener Greenwich!

Click link in the bio or go to featured events on the Exchange website for more details! Join us for a series of 4 creat...
08/07/2026

Click link in the bio or go to featured events on the Exchange website for more details!

Join us for a series of 4 creative workshops to explore local environmental issues, share ideas, and help design a community mural for your neighbourhood.

Friday 24 July, 13:00 - 16:00 | Saturday 25 July, 11:00 - 14:00

Friday 31 July, 13:00 - 16:00 | Saturday 01 Aug, 11:00 - 14:00

This is a part of our Cleaner Greener East London campaign!

We at Paint the Change are so excited to launch Cleaner Greener East London, a local climate action campaign designed to...
25/06/2026

We at Paint the Change are so excited to launch Cleaner Greener East London, a local climate action campaign designed to involve residents in the climate solutions!

Survival and triumph through art and creativity! How ’s art helped her cope with cancer. From today, we are going to pu...
10/09/2025

Survival and triumph through art and creativity! How ’s art helped her cope with cancer.

From today, we are going to publish stories of brave women and men who have overcome challenges and tragedies through art and creativity.

When was told she had triple negative breast cancer, her world spun out of control. It’s one of the toughest cancers to treat, and the words “terminal” felt like a brick landing on her chest.

But Helen found something unexpected to hold onto: painting. Not polite little watercolours either — she went big, bold, abstract. She’d grab a brush and just let it all out: the fear, the sadness, the stubborn “I’m still here” energy. Her canvases became like a diary, except instead of words there were slashes of red, floods of yellow, deep storms of black.

Painting gave her back a sense of control when her body felt like it wasn’t hers anymore. It wasn’t about perfection, it was about honesty. Every canvas was proof she was still living, still creating.

And here’s the amazing bit — her work started to get noticed. Exhibitions, collectors, even international shows. Helen turned tragedy into a voice that people couldn’t ignore.

Her art says what a thousand medical charts never could: that even when life hits you with the hardest news, you can still create beauty, joy, and meaning.

Lucy Jones has turned struggle into strength with a paintbrush. Born with cerebral palsy and later diagnosed with dyslex...
10/09/2025

Lucy Jones has turned struggle into strength with a paintbrush. Born with cerebral palsy and later diagnosed with dyslexia, Lucy has refused to let either stop her from making art. “I paint on the floor – it’s less far to fall,” she says, crawling across huge canvases to create bold self-portraits and colourful landscapes that are as honest as they are fearless.
Her work talks about beauty, vulnerability, and what it means to live differently. “I want to show how it feels to be inside this body,” she explains. For Lucy, painting is about truth: “I’m not interested in making things pretty – I’m interested in making them real.” Every stroke is proof that creativity can push back against limits.
As she puts it, “Art gives me the space where disability isn’t a weakness, but part of the story.”

We are excited to announce that our short documentary film “ Dreaming of a Greener Future: One wall at a time” has been ...
01/09/2025

We are excited to announce that our short documentary film “ Dreaming of a Greener Future: One wall at a time” has been selected to be screened at the Atlanta Children Film Festival. This film chronicles the transformative journey of 120 young people across Europe who harnessed the power of public art to confront environmental challenges.From vibrant murals in Slovenia, France, and Serbia to workshops that deepened understanding and inspired action, this 15-minute documentary captures the creativity, collaboration, and urgency fueling the Youth Art for the Earth project.
We are extremely thank full to all our partners across Serbia, Slovenia and France as well as Creative Europe for funding this project.

Young people attending ’s workshop for . They made three short films about Brick Lane using Sony Cinema Line cameras FX3...
13/08/2025

Young people attending ’s workshop for . They made three short films about Brick Lane using Sony Cinema Line cameras FX3 and FX6. They learned about directing, camera operation, sound recording, interviewing and, most importantly, storytelling.

Watch this space for their brilliant films 🍿 🎬

Based in the Tiébélé village of Burkina Faso in West Africa, the Kassena community is famous for their painted houses tr...
22/07/2025

Based in the Tiébélé village of Burkina Faso in West Africa, the Kassena community is famous for their painted houses tradition. By decorating their houses with culturally-rich symbols, stories, a sense of protection and generations of heritage are kept alive and passed on. And since Tiébélé was recently named one of Burkina Faso’s four UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Kassena hope to use this distinction to raise public cultural awareness, strengthen preservation efforts, and benefit their community through projects and economic activities centered around their heritage.

We recently chatted with featured artist Alexandre Keto , who is beginning collaborative work with Kassena locals to revitalize their tradition of painting houses. Keto’s work is a fantastic example of community co-creation. Public art can be used to bring public attention to so many issues and with Tiébélé’s ancestral cultural heritage at risk for many reasons, the collaboration between Keto and the Kassena community hopes to reinvigorate this practice for future generations.

Full story:
https://www.paintthechange.me/articleskaseenacommunity

📚✊ Nasim was a student in the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education – the “underground university” that Baha’is created ...
14/07/2025

📚✊ Nasim was a student in the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education – the “underground university” that Baha’is created in Iran, because they’re banned from higher education – when, in 2009, erupted into days of protests over the rigged reelection of then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nasim was out taking photos when she was arrested and briefly detained by the authorities. She was held for a few days and government agents tried to force her to falsely confess that she and other Baha’is were responsible for the protests – she refused. Nasim was released but she decided to leave Iran. Today she is completing her art studies at UC San Diego.

Australian artist painted this portrait of her on the side of the Storefront Academy at Park Avenue and 129th Street in Harlem.

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