To date, the mural is made up of over 300 portraits crafted by 250 participants, the majority of whom would consider themselves to be non-artists. Made entirely from collaged paper stencils on panels, the mural has been devised so that it can be continually added to and transported from place to place. The beauty of its design is that it allows for growth and change – as the name suggests the mural is a work in progress with no completion date set and no fixed location. In this way, the project remains continually alive and vibrant. Since it began in 2016 the mural has grown from an initial 28 ft in length to 60 ft as it has toured numerous venues. – Tristan Manco

About the Artists

Jann Haworth is closely associated with the 1960’s Pop art movement in Great Britain and holds two unusual distinctions: a female Pop artist, and co-designer for the Beatle’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, for which she received a Grammy. She has had twenty-three one person shows in Europe and the US including: Pallant House Gallery, Emmanuel Gallery, Modern West Fine Art, Galerie du Centre, Art Paris Grand Palais, Museum of Art at BYU, Wolverhampton Pop Gallery, Mayor Gallery London, and Gazelli Art House in Great Britain.

Additionally, her work has been featured in numerous large-scale group exhibitions in Europe and the US: “Pop Art UK”, Modena, Italy; “Art and the 60’s”, The Tate, Great Britain; “British Pop”, Bilbao, Spain; “Pop Art 1956-1968”, Rome, Italy; “Seductive Subversives”, Brooklyn Museum; “Power Up”, Female Pop Kunsalle Museum, Austria and Germany; “Hyper-realism”, Mumok, Vienna, Austria; “Pop and the Object”, Acquavella Gallery, New York; “Pop and Design”, Loisianna Museum, Denmark, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Barbican, London; “London 60’s”, Christies; and Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City.

Haworth was a lead artist for nine public works projects in Salt Lake City, most recently the 6000 square foot mural celebrating the ratification of women’s voting rights, “Utah Women 2020” for Zions Bank on the Dinwoody building. She lives and works in Salt Lake City and Sundance, Utah. workinprogressmural.org

Liberty Blake was born in 1968 in London, England. As the daughter of two artists, Liberty was immersed in art from an early age. She attended the small arts-centric Looking Glass School in the west of England which encouraged self-expression and creativity. These were formative years, the beginning of her love for adventure, the natural world, and art-making. Liberty attended Sydney Place for art foundation and studied illustration at Bath Academy of Art. In 1997 she moved to Utah, “for an adventure,” where she co-ran the Sundance Art Shack, teaching paper-making, creating posters, and illustration for the Sundance Resort and exhibited her work. In 2007 she participated in the “337 Project” in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she created the first of many large-scale wall collages, the most recent of which is the “Work in Progress Mural Project”, which recently exhibited at Pallant House, UK. Liberty currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah, making collages inspired by the wild natural places and neglected urban environments that she discovers while adventuring on bikes. Her work is housed in public and private collections throughout the United States and the UK. libertyblakecollage.com