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.
About Ascendance
Using large-scale projection, newly recorded audio stories woven with nature recordings within an original music score, Ascendance will explore Barnet’s role as a place of arrival.
The audio stories are being collected through an open call.
The large-scale projection work is being created through a touring programme engaging with local community groups across the borough in the spaces they meet.
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.
