The Flower Streets Mural Project has transformed this area of Kirkdale with 11 murals inspired by the floral street names.
Liverpool City Council’s Culture Liverpool team commissioned local arts organisation dot-art to work with artist in residence Madeleine Pires to bring residents together through creativity and art. Madeleine embedded herself into the community, running free workshops encouraging storytelling, writing, drawing, painting, and an appreciation of ecology. With everyone encouraged to share their experiences and stories, it fostered a sense of unity and pride.
The result is a series of striking murals, each representing the namesake of the flowers on each street: Crocus Street, Pansy Street, Daisy Street, Woodbine Street, Harebell Street and Snowdrop Street.
Each mural is truly collaborative with stories and images from the residents woven into the fabric of the murals, from floral motifs added by children from Kirkdale St Lawrence Primary School to a reference to the five-year old son of a retired tour guide who died from cerebral palsy 25 years ago.
The project is part of Culture Liverpool’s Creative Neighbourhoods programme, which aims to address the needs of each community at a neighbourhood level, encouraging local pride, a sense of place, inclusivity, accessibility and empowerment. The project has also been supported by the Safer Streets initiative (which also funded CCTV in the area), Dowhigh, Huyton Asphalt and Culture UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The School of Psychology at Liverpool Hope University will be using the Flower Streets Projects as a case study. They will be researching the impact of greening this urban area on the mental health and wellbeing of local people.
The project was recently shortlisted in two categories at the Liverpool City Region Culture & Creativity Awards 2025: the Community Cohesion Award and the People’s Choice Award.
