In partnership with RISING Global Peace Forum, Coventry University and Coventry City Centre the following mural was commissioned for Rising 16.
The piece “Ripple” was an original mural reflecting the themes of Rising 16. It was created with the assistance of the students of Coventry University.
RISING 16 will examine “the ripple effect” of responding to conflict, whether with action or inaction. The purpose of the mural was to ask the most important question – how can we create a positive ripple?
My answer to that question is to be positive role models for the next generation. How can we tell children to be good, when the adults they see are fighting amongst themselves? We must present the next generation with inspirational role model so they can make the world a better place.
When a child is born they are pure and innocent, so the mother is their first role model. The mother knows the darkness of the world, so this is why it is important to have educated girls and women in society. They are the ones who will lead the next generation. This is pointed in this well-known saying, “If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a nation.”
With educated women and children, they shape the future and create a world that is better for all of us. As Malcolm X once said, “Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.”
The other role models I have chosen are people who’ve changed the world we live in; overcame huge adversity or immigrants that have played a positive role in society. We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Sir Alec Issigonis moved to the UK in 1923 from Turkey and launched the Mini in 1959. This provided many jobs for people in England. Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant and created Apple, which is the world’s most profitable company.
The colours that I have chosen are from the Coventry emblem and the Syrian flag. This is because Coventry takes the highest number of Syrian refugees in the UK. I also used different patterns to show how opposing cultures can work in harmony.
The mural is currently on display FargoVillage in Coventry.
Albert Einstein wrote, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "services to theoretical physics", in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory.
Eleanor May "Ellie" Simmonds is a British #Paralympian swimmer competing in S6 events.
She came to national attention when she competed in the 2008 Summer #Paralympics in Beijing, winning two gold medals for Great Britain, despite being the youngest member of the team, at the age of 13.
She came to national attention when she competed in the 2008 Summer #Paralympics in Beijing, winning two gold medals for Great Britain, despite being the youngest member of the team, at the age of 13.
Simmonds was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. At 14 years old, she became the youngest person ever to have received this honour.
Malala Yousafzai is a #Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his #Christian beliefs.
Malcolm X was an African-American #Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
In 1950, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman #Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries. They run homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools.
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. He was widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial, and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring.
We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Sir Alec Issigonis moved to the UK in 1923 from Turkey and launched the #Mini in 1959. This provided many jobs for people in England.
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was born on February 24th 1955. He was an American businessman, inventor, and industrial designer. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with #Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple is the world’s most profitable company, it pays over $7bn (£4.6bn) a year in taxes – and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs.
We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple is the world’s most profitable company, it pays over $7bn (£4.6bn) a year in taxes – and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955. He is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1950 and moved to London to study. She won numerous amount of awards for her work and was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. In 2012, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal.
