UP Projects are working with award-winning artist Matthew Rosier to create a highly ambitious participatory artwork as the creative centrepiece of Barnet’s Light + Flight programme.
Using large-scale projection, newly recorded oral histories woven with nature recordings within an original music score, and community co-creation, Ascendance will explore Barnet’s role as a place of arrival and a home for both humans and the more-than-human.
The final installation will create a visual spectacle that is accessible and grounded in the lived experiences of Barnet’s communities.
Rosier is known for creating large-scale public artworks developed through close collaboration with the communities and places they inhabit, working across film, sound, projection, and performance.
This new artistic commission, Ascendance, will bring this approach to Barnet, translating lived experiences of movement, migration, and belonging into a powerful public art installation.
Ascendance will be unveiled in November 2026, during a free multi-day arts and culture festival forming the celebratory finale of the London Borough of Barnet's Light + Flight programme.
