Torches extinguished and starting blocks removed, the Olympic Park has been stripped of its pomp now The Games are no more. Most materials have been recycled by the companies that donated them but Golders Green designer Natasha Reid saw an opportunity to create an artwork in the aftermath of The Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Natasha has recycled the iconic fabric panels that adorned the Olympic Stadium to create an experimental art installation, AfterParty, celebrating the impact of London 2012, which was the catalyst for the physical transformation of a huge area of east London. Natasha’s work reflects on how the legacy reaches far beyond the architectural to transform the social, economic and cultural landscape of the city.

Natasha had to act fast as structures within the Park were rapidly being dismantled.

“It’s all had to happen at the speed of light,“ says Natasha. “I could only really start planning what I was going to make once I had collected the material and it had to be finished in a week. It has been exciting with so many unknowns: Would I be able to cut the material, since each piece is 25m long and how I was going to fix it together?“

In the end, the final idea arrived when Natasha laid the wrap out in her narrow north London garden and realised the blue fabric looked like the night sky, dusted with stars.

“I specifically wanted material from the Olympic stadium. I chose three colours – yellow, orange and blues for the legacy of the Olympics representing the sunrise on the next day and a new chapter. The material was created for the stadium and it’s a type of plastic but it’s supple, almost like leather. It was really easy to cut up and staple together.“

The lengths of wrap have been cut into slivers, twisted, stapled and woven together to create a ’skyscape’ to be suspended in the gallery in front of the windows with views to the stadium where London’s Olympic journey began. The result looks somewhat like a cloud of over-sized streamers left hanging in mid-air.

Natasha’s piece forms part of the group show, Celebration: The Big Picture, curated by Sophie Venturini and Neha Malik featuring the work of 28 contemporary London artists, who were asked to creatively interpret the theme of celebration.

To help the organisers hang the display, Natasha, who studied architecture at Cambridge University and London Met, created a magnetised model of the gallery. She then attached magnets to a scaled down versions of all the exhibits so the curators could ’arrange’ the show with minimum effort. Her model show will also be exhibited during the exhibition’s run.

The AfterParty artwork will be exhibited until October 28 at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery, Stour Road, Fish Island, E3. Details: natashareid.co.uk