Along the Thames extends the spatial imagination of Along the River During the Qingming Festival into contemporary London, using the handscroll as a living method for seeing the city through layered time, parallel viewpoints, and shared authorship. Developed as a collaborative project by The Big Draw and Trinity Art Studios, and presented on 15–16 December, the work brings together a series of public workshops held at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London Bridge, and Margate, where participants sketched their surroundings in the fluid, accumulative spirit of the Qingming scroll. Guided by artist Zorg Yifan Jing, whose own London sketches weave through the piece as quiet anchors, these collective drawings merge into a continuous panorama shaped by many hands and many moments. The result is a contemporary “London handscroll” in which riverfront histories, personal encounters, and communal imagination flow side by side. The motif Qingming Scroll × London Trinity Buoy Wharf becomes both structure and metaphor: a meeting of eras, cultures, and waters that reimagines how a city can be seen, remembered, and co-created.

Supported by:

Trinity Art Studios

The Big Draw