If you were asked to present your view of London in an art form what would you do?

Would you compile a mosaic of all its famous buildings, The Tate Modern, St Paul’s Cathedral and The Houses of Parliament?

Or perhaps you would put together extracts from poems and stories from some of the capital’s best-loved poets and writers?

But a group of teenagers from West London have gone with a taxi made from cardboard, a stick man made of train tickets and videos of interviews with Londoners.

The works are all part of a new exhibition which is part of the UK 2012 cultural programme aimed at enabling young people from the borough’s of Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond to reflect on London’s role as host city for the games.

Programmer Nadia Nervo, who coordinated the project and the workshops the teenagers have been attending since February, said: “We worked with about 300 13 to 19 year olds and asked them how they want the world to see London, their city.

“It was a great project and had an amazing result.

“There are a number of short films and photography with a lot of the work exhibited in the form of small postcards.

“It represents the young people’s view of London and the area where they are from."

Most of the participants came from secondary schools in the six boroughs, while others were from youth clubs, were young refugees or from special needs schools.

They have used animations, films, photographs and digital media to create their unique perspectives and Nadia picked the taxi out as one of the star attractions.

“One of the best exhibits is the taxi made out of cardboard which has moving images in it you can see,” she said.

“There is also a film where the young people are interviewed and some of the comments are really interesting. There is one girl who hadn’t been out of the area where she lives before and did not realised how amazing London was.”

Filmmaker Steve Folorunsho has also followed the work as it happened, interviewing artists and participants throughout to create a short documentary being screened as part of the exhibition.

Watermans Gallery, High Street, Brentford, July 14 - September 28, 12pm - 9pm, free. Call 020 8232 1010.