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Big Walls and Windows 2022: Ffi Farrer-Miles' mural inspired by Camberwell’s stained-glass windows

Portrait of Ffi standing in front of her finished colour geometric mural.

Written byGrizelda Kitching
Published date 24 May 2022

The Big Walls and Windows Project takes place annually, and gives one UAL Fine Art student the opportunity to create a temporary artwork on-site at Camberwell College of Arts. The project is sponsored by Liquitex and Cass Art who cover the material and equipment costs.

Ffi Farrer-Miles, a final year BA Fine Art: Painting student, was selected as this year’s winner of the project.

A computer generated design of Ffi’s proposed mural design. Both sides of the wall have a design, both of which are brightly coloured and have a geometric pattern. — **2022 Big Walls and Windows Project ,** **Ffi Farrer-Miles’s Big Walls and Windows 2022 Project winning design proposal**
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Ffi Farrer-Miles

Ffi’s work explores the idea of conservation, aesthetics and colour chemistry through bold and abstract geometric painting. Her standout mural proposal takes inspiration from the British architect Maurice Bingham Adams, and celebrates the original Victorian stained-glass windows located at Camberwell College of Arts. Both sides of the wall have been designed in a vibrant pattern of abstraction, complementing and re-contextualising the Victorian heritage of the College.

Photograph of the exterior of the college, showing three Victorian stained-glass windows. — **2022 Big Walls and Windows Project,** **The stained-glass windows at Camberwell College of Arts which inspired Ffi’s design proposal. Photograph provided by Ffi Farrer-Miles.**
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Ffi Farrer-Miles

Ffi, holding a paintbrush, painting a light green colour onto the wall, a geometric design is marked in tape on the wall. — **2022 Big Walls and Windows Project,** **Ffi Farrer-Miles working on the mural here at Camberwell. Photographer: Sun Star**
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Sun Star

Big Walls and Windows 2022: Ffi Farrer-Miles

Taking inspiration from stained glass windows in the original College building, this mural seeks to bring awareness to the beauty and history in the original features of this institutional building. The design will re-situate this feature from the older building, bringing it into the new 21st century development, representing the merge of traditional and contemporary arts and spaces at the College.

— Ffi Farrer-Miles

Ffi, holding a paintbrush, mixing a paint colour. — **2022 Big Walls and Windows Project,** **Ffi Farrer-Miles work in progress of the mural here at Camberwell. Photographer: Sun Star**
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Sun Star

one side of the finished mural, coloured squares. Colours include pink, light green, purple, pink and orange. — **2022 Big Walls and Windows Project,** **The finished mural by Ffi Farrer-Miles**
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL | Photograph: Ffi Farrer-Miles

If you’ve not seen it already, you have until Friday 27 May 2022 to see how Ffi’s mural transforms Camberwell College of Arts’ entrance.

Find out more about BA Fine Art: Painting.

Big Walls and Windows 2022: Ffi Farrer-Miles' mural inspired by Camberwell’s stained-glass windows

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