THE URBAN FOX MURAL AND ANIMATION PROJECT 

Inspired by residents’ stories of the natural world, the Urban Fox mural and animation project spins a fairytale of Higham Hill, where a bright-eyed fox wanders through the wetlands. 

 

The Urban Fox is a multi-disciplinary project to transform a busy alleyway in Higham Hill with a mural design, pollinator friendly planters and augmented reality animations to give the wall a “second life”.

 

Led by story producer and curator Kate Hampel, artist Tom Jackson of Wood Street Walls  Modular Media and animator Maggie Nightingale The Digital Story Company has co-created an urban nature inspired design in a series of workshops with foster families and the wider community of Waltham Forest. 

 

Special thanks to trainees Aether Singh, Shayma Fouad, Hunnie Hillyleaf-Scott and Blessing Itunga. 

 

WATCH “The Urban Fox” 

 

Funding was provided by Waltham Forest Council's Make It Happen grant programme with additional support from Community Ward funding, Future Formed Waltham Forest, Clarion Futures and Blackhorse Collective Creative Enterprise Zone.