Chloe Osborne

Lots of conversations about the inevitable this week. Anticipatory grief, casting the dead’s body, funeral poverty, being at your own wake and finding yourself in a cemetery with a bucket of chicken. It’s amazing what comes out when people are given the space and “permission” to talk about death. So we’re really excited to be off to Hastings next week to take part in the @goodgrieffest You’ll find Mortal Made and so much more in the Good Grief Market on The Stade from 11am-3pm and brilliant events across the whole weekend! From us you can expect urn decorating, pomanders, grounding objects, death architecture, Mr Trinkets and more… #mortalmade #goodgrieffestival #hastings #death #create

What connects us? What divides us? What futures are we not yet imagining? These were the questions at the heart of Flint & Clay 2025, and now the full research report is live. Link in bio. Each month we will share a different section so you can find your way in. Whether you were part of it, curious about place-based practice, or just want to know what Folkestone's creative community is thinking about right now, there is something in here for you. Stay tuned ✨ Report researched and written by @theartroom_sbdavies and designed by @danny.windsor with contributions from participating artists, audience & partners. #flintandclay #folkestonefringe #folkestone #placebasedpractice #communityart

Collecting knowledge directly from the thing itself. On your tiptoes if you have to. This is what fieldwork looks like at beach school. This Sunday, May 17th : Fieldwork Family Sessions: 🐚 Rockhoppers (ages 3–6) 10am-12pm 🪸 Beach Imagineers (ages 7-11) 1-3pm Thursday 28th May: Holiday Beach School Children only (ages 7+) 9am-3pm. All Feral State sessions follow four pathways: 🌊 Wild Ways - sea confidence, beach literacy, physical skill. Knowing the shore like you belong to it. ✨ Wild Ideas - creative thinking and making from what the shore offers. Invention without instruction. 🌿 Wild Life - coastal ecology, species ID, stewardship. Children who know what lives in a rockpool look after it differently. 🔥 Wild Ambitions - confidence, resilience, emotional intelligence. Built through real experience. BOOKINGS via link in bio. 📷 thanks to Oliver Okolo, @thestreetsbyoliver who (along with his fab two feral wildlings) captured our April Rockhoppers session.​​​​​

A few months ago myself and @chloe_does_stuff were asked to write a piece for Dying Matters Awareness Week. Despite it being well received by some, the powers that be felt it wasn’t suitable so it wasn’t published. Disappointed at first, we realised we must be doing something right. Mortal Made is about opening up conversations, methods and creativity around our inevitable demise. So we’re publishing it ourselves to mark the week and also announce we’ll be heading to Hastings on the 23rd May to take part in The Good Grief Festival. We’re also plotting and planning how Mortal Made can evolve into a sustainable entity for the community… To read our frank conversation about why we do what we do just follow the Mortal Made link in the bio or visit the whitepaperpen website. 💀⚰️⚱️☠️ #mortalmade #death #dying #deathanddying #artists

On the first of May, old traditions called people out to mark the turn of the year. We dressed up the green world and carried it through the streets, celebrated. Summer was named into being. We’re on the Kent coast. Our green world is the strandline. Our forests are bladder wrack and sea lettuce, kelp ribbons and mermaid’s purse. So we make our own figures from what the tide brings. This is new beachlore. Built from old instinct, salt water, and the particular wildness of this shore. Summer begins here. Right on the tideline. Join us on sunday May 17th for our first summer sessions. Come and see what the summer beach brings. Let go of your control this Beltane. Reconnect with your Feral State. Co-create new Beachlore. #FeralStateBeachSchool #Beltane #KentCoast #Folkestone mayday

Enfield of Dreams is bringing together people who would not usually share the same space - young people, artists, teachers, schools and cultural organisations. Not to be briefed or to agree, but to begin the real work of shaping what culture in Enfield could become. At our recent ‘Ways of Working’ gathering, participants selected via open call and the project’s steering team stepped into that challenge together. From co-creating sculptures in silence to opening up conversations around principles of radical access, the focus was on building trust, testing ideas and rethinking how collaboration can happen. Facilitated by Chloe Osborne and Penny Skerrett, the sessions created space for everyone to explore how they will co-create ambitious projects and a creative learning programme for Enfield’s public realm and schools over the next two years. We were also joined by our partners and Creative Cluster hosts - @border_crossings , @chickenshed_uk , @dyspla_festival , @facefronttheatre and @highrise_uk - each bringing their own perspectives into the conversation. This gathering was about setting the conditions for meaningful, shared work - watch this space as the project unfolds. @enfieldyoungcreatives @enfieldculturenetwork

The pencil has been working hard today with my associate producer hat on for epic community co-production and place making project “Richmond Myths” with @orangetreetheatre . Look out for rampaging olympians, mischievous muses, dances with monsters and gardens laden with golden apples and harpies across Richmond in July! #getyourmython #richmondmyths #sitespecifictheatre #communitycoproduction

Wendy Osborne. My Auntie Wendle. She waited. Of course she did. She waited until all five of her children were holding her, and then she went. Her body had been fighting for years, MS taking ground slowly, stubbornly. But her eyes never stopped finding things worth looking at. That was her gift. She saw beauty the way other people see weather, constantly, without effort, even as the world required more of her to stay in it. In her final hours, we did what women have always done. We brought bluebells in from the garden, flowers that speak of gratitude and everlasting love, and snowdrops, which have always known how to hold hope through the hardest season. We burnt sage to clear what needed clearing, eucalyptus for protection and transition, rosemary for remembrance and calm. We studded clementines with cloves and set them, burning with candles at the thresholds. Pomanders. An ancient act of love and warding. We opened windows. We cooked enormous pots of food. We told stories until they ran into each other. Her daughters and her eldest granddaughter wore her soft soft jumpers. The house filled with the next generation, from babe-in-arms to fire spinner, children with paper swords tucked into holsters made from pants, every vessel in the house pressed into service for the flowers that kept arriving and arriving and arriving. I am grateful to have been there. Grateful for the chance to say goodbye and thank you. Grateful for my cousins - my dazzling, gentle, brilliant cousins, who continue to astound me. Rest now, Wendle. Your children are magic. Your legacy will be gentle and enduring. Our eyes will search harder for what you could see. The windows are open.

There is something that happens when you put your feet on cold sand and stop. Something that screens cannot replicate and four walls cannot manufacture. The kind of reset that only comes from being outside, properly outside, with the wind doing what it wants and the tide arriving on its own schedule. Research consistently shows that regular time in nature builds resilience, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. That it grows environmental stewardship in children who would otherwise never think to look. That it develops collaboration, creative thinking, and the ability to sit with a problem until it resolves itself. The shore does all of this without trying. It just needs you to stop walking past it. Going Feral is how we do that. Together, at the water’s edge, at the moment this coast is most alive. Sunday 26th April Rockhoppers (ages 3-6) · 10am-12pm Beach Imagineers (ages 7-11) · 1-3pm Monday 27th April Home School Beach School (ages 5-14) · 1:30-3:30pm Folkestone Shore. Spaces are limited. Book via the link in bio, DM or WhatsApp us any questions See you on the beach! #feralstate #feralstateschool #beachschool #folkestone

The moon sorts the tides. We sort the rest. Easter sessions on Folkestone shore - come and see what the sea’s been up to. 🐚 8 Apr Holiday Beach School [ages 7+] 9-3 🐚 26 Apr Rockhoppers [ages 3-6+ families] 10-12 🐚 26 Apr Beach Imagineers [ages 7+ families] 1-3 🐚 27 Apr Home School Families 1.30-3.30 🐚 27 Apr Tide Turners [ages 11-14] 4.30-6.30 Book via the link in bio. Spaces are small and they go.

@bureau_of_silly_ideas is currently negotiating for the right to survive and YOU CAN HELP!!! RALLYING ALL MAKERS, SHAKERS, ENGINEERS, CIRCUS PERFORMERS, CABARET ARTISTS & OUTDOOR ARTS FOLK! One of the last inner city london messy making places where you create work is under risk. A new planning application has been submitted, claiming the BOSI arches are “derelict” and, if it goes through, the last bastion of maverick creation space in Brixton will become part of the gentrified wash that’s wiping out it’s subversive creative history. More erosion of London’s grassroots culture. We need everyone to object to the planning application. This is the immediate, practical task you can all do - link in bio - deadline 6th April. Step 1: Visit /online-applications/search.do?action=simple&searchType=Application and register for an online account so you can submit an objection Step 2: Scroll down and put the following application reference in the search: 26/00491/FUL or type in Valentia Place Step 3: Click the COMMENT tab and log in or register. Step 4: Submit your objection. Key points below. Step 5: Tell everyone you know — especially locally. What to say: 1. The spaces are not derelict. Arch Co claims they are in the application, yet they have just issued BOSI a lease — one they clearly intend to break. 2. BOSI is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, located in Lambeth’s Cultural Enterprise Zone. This application would remove culture the council has explicitly said it wants. 3. Arch 555 holds a Club Licence that cannot simply be transferred elsewhere. Arch Co makes no mention of the club, or Club Silly, anywhere in the application. Beyond these points, please add anything personal: the great times, the joy that comes out of this place, what Club Silly means to your wellbeing and mental health, and why this application should not be granted. 🔥🔥🔥Please share and support 🔥🔥🔥 @clubsillyuk @outdoorartsuk @nasauk @snr_silly @aswarm_works @pollygranville @keikostinyworkshop @jeroen.van.dooren @cagginator

Up to the mountains. Just 2.5 hours away. Chamonix via Geneva to celebrate my glorious cousin falling in love with a French Mountain Man. 3 days of alpine air and time to breathe/dance/take pictures of Swiss slaps on lampposts and beautifully bulbous roofs made for snowfall and dreamscapes. First time up Mont Blanc. Snow without kids. And all us grown up siblings and cousins flinging limbs across dance floors and snow balls at each other’s heads. What a thing to have grown up in a small welsh seaside town with such a bounteous clan who have flown in many, many wild and wonderous directions.