Fragments From Our Land is a new public art commission for the Marshgate Lane and Pudding Mill Lane area, adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. Curated and produced by UP Projects and commissioned by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), the project responds to concerns raised by the local community about safety in this public throughway, particularly for women, girls, and gender diverse people, and aligns with LLDC's Handbook: Creating Places that Work for Women and Girls.

The project doesn't set out to fix a systemic problem. It recognises that art alone cannot resolve issues of safety in the public realm, but that art can open up the conversation, hold space for it, and draw attention to questions that too often go unasked.

The work was developed through a process of co-creation with eight female Community Collaborators, local women selected through an open call, each with a direct relationship to the area. Over nine workshops, designed and led as part of the commission, the group came together to share lived experience, reflect on what safety means in this context, and consider how art might extend the conversation into the site itself. A slow, conversational methodology underpinned the process, bringing together material research, place-based observation, and collective authorship, with the group shaping decisions around the artwork's form, materials, and placement.

The result is a series of wayfinding artworks that carry the collaborators' perspectives into the public realm, continuing the dialogue on-site and inviting passers-by into a wider question about who public space is for, and helping to address the gender imbalance in how public space is designed.

Fragments From Our Land will be installed in 2026.