Come along to StudioLino on Saturday 23rd May (10.30am - 1pm) and learn to make some lithograph prints - the poster is a demo of the kinds of mark-making you can expect!
There’s an immediacy and fluidity and magic to the technique, using materials to hand (aluminium foil has special powers) - really looking forward to teaching it again. If you can’t make this date but are interested, do get in touch - would be happy to set up some more sessions.
Have a look at the website for other workshops and classes coming up, including the upcoming two-part workshop with @tomhoulihan_ , starting this Monday 11th May.
Book all upcoming workshops and classes via the StudioLino website (in my bio - scroll down, the kitchen lithography workshop is there!)
💚 Also, go vote! If you haven’t, you have until 10pm 💚
*See remaining work in the ‘studio sale’ highlight above!* It’s nearing high spring ! And high time to find new homes for lots of prints, pins and clay pieces, paintings and drawings (see slides 2 + 3 for a sense). Stock up on small clay gifts and little paintings and prints for you + loved ones.
Online (here, on my stories), then remaining works on my website
Next Wednesday, 22nd April
6pm (GMT+1)
The most recent batch from the kiln. There's a mix of sgraffito, glaze, slip and inlay techniques with these - using my favourite ways of making from the past four years of experimenting.
They'll be going up my story tonight, with any remaining to my story archive / on my website (where, under 'Available Pins' you'll find a variety of ones already waiting).
This time next week is the Kitchen Lithography workshop, where I’ll be leading folks through the technique at @studiolino.print - a chance to make some gestural marks and use the beautiful presses there ! Booking link is in my bio.
Here are a couple of kitchen lithos that I made recently and then hand coloured, using the inky automatic shapes as guidelines for other forms.
If you can’t make it next Saturday but are interested in taking part in another / other workshops and classes then sign up to my newsletter, where I’ll share upcoming plans for the studio.
On Saturday April 18th, come join at @studiolino.print and learn the art of Kitchen Lithography! A more home-made approach to traditional Lithography methods and materials, you’ll be learning the process and taking away your prints from this 2.5 hour workshop.
Kitchen Lithos make the best inky gestural marks, which I’ve enjoyed hand painting afterwards - examples to follow ! Excited to share the technique and see what people make of it.
Book a space via the StudioLino website (link in bio)
18 April, 10.30am - 1pm
StudioLino
4 Redhill Street
NW1 4BG
Please note: unfortunately the studio has no step-free access
I made some pin charms last week for my wedding celebration with @joe.bradleyhill , comprising of various small objects for luck and to make a good noise when shaken/ worn on the body: clay pipe shards from the Thames that we mudlarked in 2020, little bells that tinkle in contact with the pin and their ceramic neighbour, which are tokens stamped with a variety of designs that I made also from clay. A happy meeting of clay on clay. There are extra loops so that the pin can be added to, like a charm bracelet.
Although all the pins are spoken for, I may make something similar soon - happy to chat if you are interested!
And I do have a few tokens remaining that I’ve stitched onto fabric, a kind of suggestion of how they might be adorned on a coat or jumper or other piece of clothing. Get in touch if you’d like one (there are only *3 left)
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Slide 3 📷 @daisyharvey of @amy_murgatroyd and me (and Amy, not pictured) wrapping up pins, kept going by @aevgclay madeleines. Wouldn’t have had them all ready in time if not for these angels.
The handout for 'as far as possible', designed beautifully by @joe.bradleyhill , including a watercolour cover image, which is one of the paintings I was making last year during the residency before reaching for the copper plates. There is also a longer text I wrote that gives more details about each of the dozen etchings, which can be tucked into this A4 slip, which goes out to anyone who buys an editioned print.
Today was the last day of the show, but you'll also be able to see it tonight if you come to the poetry evening at 7.30pm @torrianomeetinghouse organised by @emilyjohnssussex and Susan Johns.
As you can glimpse in these photos, v happily @vetemmants wrote a text to accompany the work and the show. If you'd like a copy of the handout, let me know, as I'd happily post them out for a small print-on-demand fee.
That's all for now + thanks so much to all who came to visit and chat and make in the room together !
All these paintings were made as I was beginning to formulate images for the etchings in 'as far as possible'. They were made feelingly, as I began to try and translate some of the sensations of objects mentioned, things woven together in handwriting, the idea of jewellery mentioned, the materiality of the archive, into something visual. They are bright markers on the way to the prints.
Each has been framed in oak, each a slightly different colour stain to bring out their hues. They are all for sale, message me if you are interested.
Slide one: 'green embrace', 194 x 149 mm with artglass
Slide two: 'gems, inlay', 194 x 149 mm with artglass
Slide three: 'knitting circles', 194 x 149 mm with artglass
Slide four: 'bundle', 194 x 149 mm with artglass
Two of a few special pins made to join their exhibition, 'as far as possible', with plenty more on view and available to buy. These two pick up on the motifs of a bundle of carnations and the parcel containing unknown possibilities. Come pick one out ! I'll be at Torriano Meeting House all this weekend, 11-5pm on Saturday 24th, 11-2pm on Sunday 25th.
P.S. send me pics of you and your pins! I'd love to see them out in the wild
Slide one: red carnations, SOLD
Slide two: parcel + bow, inlay technique
Slide three: various pins for sale, shown on @jake_vinee fabric display
Details from two (envelopes iv and vi) of the etchings I'll be sharing from 16th (tomorrow!) until 27th January @torrianomeetinghouse
These are two of three etchings in the dozen that are on awkwardly shaped copper plates, where I was considering the letter-envelopes I kept coming across in the archive, regulation for those interned. I thought about the materiality of other things conjured up in the letters and in the archive, too - the 'OPENED BY CENSOR' stickers half peeling off, the shirts that were sent back and forth from the Isle of Man to mend, the sampler book full of button holes and stitches. A wreath recurs, ribbons unfurling.
I have a limited edition of all the prints you'll see at 'as far as possible', which I'd love to have new homes. Come visit - opening tomorrow evening 6-9pm, then 11-5pm on weekends (17-18, 24-25*). Workshop with @daisyharvey 2-4.30pm on Saturday 17th (one ticket left!) + on the 24th, I'm welcoming people to bring their textile projects (knitting, darning, sewing etc) to come join me in the space anytime 12-5pm. See you there x
*on Sunday 25th I'll now be at Torriano Meeting House 11-2pm.
Join for 'hold dear: a pocket making workshop' next Saturday 17th, 2-4.30pm. The workshop is inspired by one of the subjects of the upcoming exhibition 'as far as possible', a show that responds to the Holocaust Centre North's archive, installed at @torrianomeetinghouse 16-27th January.
Daisy Harvey will be guiding participants to make pockets to keep something safe, perhaps hidden. Bring along something you'd like to stash away, along with an overcoat or other garment you would like to add that object and its pocket to.
The references behind some of the etchings have acted as a prompt for the workshop. They feature imagined shoe soles and refer to a quote detailing ways in which refugees fled Nazi Germany with objects hidden on their person: ‘Their property was seized and belongings confiscated by the Nazis. They could leave with little more than the clothes on their backs. My aunties smuggled their jewellery in their underwear, nailed into the soles of their shoes, sewn into the lining of their coats and of course they always had some knitting to keep their hands busy.’ - Carry Gorney, Send me a parcel with a hundred lovely things (London: Ragged Clown Publishing, 2014), p.143.
The image of something sewn into the lining of a coat is an evocative one - resourceful, creative, made of necessity, a tactile act of defiance. Inspired by this and as a way of meditating on what it means to flee one’s home, participants will be creating pockets to house that which they hold dear.
Book your ticket via the link in bio!
🪡 @daisyharvey is a London-based artist. She explores ideas of sentimentality, symbolism, and collective storytelling through object making and mending. She has been teaching mending workshops for over five years as part of the ongoing textile mending project @g.o.i.n.g with her long term collaborator, the textile artist @maz.l.yn .
In a fortnight I’ll be showing ‘as far as possible’ at @torrianomeetinghouse (99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, NW5 2RX) - an installation of etchings printed @studiolino.print for the Memorial Gestures residency, responding to the archive @holocaustcentrenorth . Along with the etchings, I will be showing some paintings made during the residency, along with a collection of ceramic pins and magnets made specially for the show.
Please do join on Friday 16th January, 6-9pm!
The exhibition will then be up until Jan 27th, open to visitors on weekends 11-5pm* (+ just message if you want to visit at another time)
As part of the exhibition there will be a special workshop in the space with @daisyharvey on Saturday 17th, 2-4.30pm, which we will be sharing more details of soon. For now, pop it in your diary!
Poster design with @joe.bradleyhill
*on Sunday 25th I'll be in the space 11-2pm
