Primary school pupils in Battersea have started work on a project designed to introduce the community to their neighbour-to-be, the US Embassy.

Ahead of the Embassy moving into Nine Elms in 2017, Wandsworth Council’s Pump House Gallery and Embassy officials have started a schools engagement project to help the Nine Elms and Battersea community engage with their future neighbour.

Last month pupils from Sir James Barrie, Chesterton and St George’s Church of England primary schools began working with artist and RCA graduate Jasleen Kaur to explore the themes of travel, transport and new homes, with a particular focus on the work of American artist and graphic designer Edward Kauffer.

Taking inspiration from Kauffer’s London Underground posters and the Tube’s 150th anniversary, the pupils are creating striking posters for an imagined new form of transport, complete with a catchy slogan and name of a fictional location.

Alongside the 90 individual posters that schoolchildren are creating, each class will work collaboratively to make a larger panel that will depict an adventure their new transportation could take them on.

Their work will be exhibited at the Pump House Gallery, in Battersea Park, on July 17, before being displayed at the current US Embassy in Grosvenor Square in September, where it will be on show in the Consular Waiting Rooms - a venue that has 700 people passing through it each day.

Lynne Platt, US Embassy spokesman, said: "In the years before the Embassy moves to Nine Elms in 2017, we’re undertaking a number of community outreach projects with our future neighbours - and this exhibition of artwork from local Wandsworth schools is one of them.

"We’re looking forward to seeing colourful and imaginative travel posters displayed in our Consular Waiting Rooms."