Students in Greenwich and Ghana to showcase artwork in exhibition at the Royal Maritime Museum

A new exhibition at the Royal Maritime Museum will show artwork by young people from Greenwich and Accra, Ghana.

The exhibition was created with the Thames Festival Trust to display the culmination of their flagship art and education project.

The Rivers of the World project links schools around the world through the study of rivers.

The project is now in its 16th year.

Thames Festival Trust is working with six secondary schools in Greenwich; St Mary Magdalene, Eltham Hill, Halley Academy, New Haven, Woolwich Polytechnic School and Plumstead Manor.

Twenty pupils in Years 8 and 9, are participating from each school.

Pupils have worked alongside professional artists to create river-themed artworks.

Greenwich-based participants worked with Shona Watt, an artist whose work explores the themes of architecture, landscape, people and climate change.

In Ghana, the participants have worked with Bright Ackwerh, a painter, illustrator and street artist who uses his work to provoke conversation around socio-political and religious issues.

Rivers of the World opens September 1.