Real Collaborative Art Projects: Group Paintings Created Together

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Collaborative Painting Case Studies

Collaborative art projects bring people together to create shared artworks through colour, pattern, layering, and creative exploration.

This collection of real collaborative art project case studies shows how groups of different ages and abilities can work together to create collaborative paintings using the Pattern Play Collaborative Art process.

These collaborative art case studies include schools, vacation care programs, community groups, public art events, and inclusive social art activities.

Browse the projects below to explore how each artwork was created, discover the context behind the project, and download individual case studies featuring photos of the three Pattern Play stages – Messy Playing, Exploring, and BLING – showing the real, layered process behind collaborative group painting.

I’m sharing 60+ real collaborative art case studies from past projects – join the email list to follow along.

School Collaborative Art Projects

Growing Together inclusive collaborative painting created with primary school vacation care children using cool colours

‘Growing Together’ Inclusive Painting

30 students and staff

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Junior school collaborative art project created with cool colours and gold highlights over three painting sessions called 'Encouraging Success'

Junior School Collaborative Art Project

‘Encouraging Success’ with 127 students and staff

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Autumn circle painting banner created as a vacation care art activity with layered circles and autumn colours

Autumn Circle Painting Banner

Primary School Vacation Care Art Activity
12 children

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Specialist school collaborative mural created with students and staff using layered process art techniques in a sensory garden

Specialist School Collaborative Mural

“Our Sensory Garden Mural” with 100 students and staff

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Collaborative Artwork created by children

Inclusive Collaborative Painting Project

‘Aspiring to Success’ with 127 students and staff

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Community Collaborative Art Projects

'Circles of Connection' Community group collaborative painting created by adults using layered circle painting techniques over three sessions

Community Group Collaborative Painting

‘Circles of Connection’ – a group art activity for adults

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Detail of the Together We Shine collaborative artwork created as part of a real collaborative art project using layered mixed media techniques.

Collaborative Art Workshops for Disability Groups

‘Together We Shine’ with a community disability support organisation

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Collaborative mixed media collage created by an adult community peer group featured on the Real Collaborative Art Projects hub page

Collaborative Collage with Adults

Community Peer Group

[View Project] adult group collage

Public Participation Collaborative Art Projects

'Community', a public collaborative art event artwork created with 600 participants at Westfield Marion using layered painting techniques

Westfield Marion Art Story

‘Community’ with 600 public participants

[View Project] public art event

Participatory art painting Myriad in Harmony created by 80 people using warm colours over a bright blue underpainting

State Library Myriad Exhibition

‘Myriad in Harmony’ 80 public participants

[View Project] public art event

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Detail of “Myriad in Harmony” collaborative painting created by 80 exhibition visitors of all ages and abilities over three days, showing warm colours layered over a blue background with blue highlights in the bling stage.
A detail from “Myriad in Harmony,” painted by 80 public participants over three days using the Pattern Play collaborative art process and the ‘Mirage’ colour scheme.