Turf Projects 🌱

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: We're pleased to announce our programme for 2026, FUTURE VISIONS. Future Visions is an invitation to pause, sense and imagine. Across three exhibitions, we'll explore how shifting built and natural environments shape connection, belonging and care. In a culture of urgency, we propose another rhythm - one of listening, play, rest and collective imagination. As we move forward in our journey to set up a permanent home for ourselves in Croydon, we invite our community to gather, visualise, and plot this shared future with us. Our 2026 programme forms a constellation of encounters, blurring artwork and environment, visitor and participant. First we'll gather at the spring equinox for Tending, an exhibition building on At the Meadow's Edge with work from Lina Ivanova, Becky Lyon, Meera Shakti Osbourne and Laura Selby. Stay tuned for further details 🌀 Come dwell in the possibilities of future visions before they unfold 🌱

ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Turf Projects is delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition, Tending. Growing roots planted last summer with At the Meadow’s Edge, Tending invites reflections on how we notice, care for and relate to each other and our environment. Artworks awakening the senses are shared alongside spaces for rest and reflection, with work from Lina Ivanova [@linavanova ], Becky Lyon [@elastic_fiction ], Meera Shakti Osborne [@mso_4rt ] and Laura Selby [@laura_selb ]. Taking place between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, a full public programme of events will run alongside our gallery exhibition. Join us in cultivating deeper sensory awareness as a way of being present and curious in the world. For more information visit turf-projects.com 🌱

Welcome to Turf's Ceramics Facilities! 🌱 🤲 Inductions to use the hand building facilities will take place on a monthly basis, and cost £35. ☕️ Completion of this induction will grant you open access to our ceramic facilities from Wednesday to Saturday, 11am-5pm, bookable via Eventbrite for £15 for a 3 hour slot. 🔥 A half day open access pass includes 1kg of clay to build and fire with. Additional clay is priced at £5 per kg and costs £5 per kg you require to be fired. 🧰 Potterycraft tools provided 🔗 Link in bio for more info

Family Art Fun Day: Make a Sneaky Bookmark 📖 Sat 6 Jun 2-4pm Free & open to all Inspired by Becky Lyon’s [@elastic_fiction ] ‘Muntjac’ project exploring rebellious ideas, shown in our current show Tending, make your own bookmark you can sneak into books at home and beyond! 🔗 Link to upcoming events in bio!

We recently welcomed @mt_qu and @amy_j_wilson to the @croydon_school_of_art to conclude an ongoing project 🎨 It was a fun‑packed day spent creating landscapes and artefacts for our biospheres ☺️ Students thoroughly enjoyed engaging with the project and exploring ideas through speculative fiction. Supported by @turfprojects #croydoncollege

Drawing The Space Inside My Hand with Lina Ivanova [@linavanova ] ✏️✋ Sat 16 May 11am-1pm Free & open to all! Drawing The Space Inside My Hand invites participants to explore drawing as a sensory and embodied practice. Taking place during the exhibition Tending, the workshop uses observational drawing to deepen ways of sensing and feeling. Participants will draw from the ceramic pieces in the show, as well as their own hands and each other’s, considering the hand as our first tool for making and tending. The session encourages slow looking, presence, and learning through the body. This workshop is open to the public and no prior drawing experience is required. 🔗 Link to upcoming events in bio!

Have you visited our latest exhibition? Tending invites you to explore ways we notice, care and exist in kinship with each other and our environment. Immerse yourself in works by Lina Ivanova [@linavanova ], Becky Lyon [@elastic_fiction ], Meera Shakti Osborne [@mso_4rt ] & Laura Selby [@laura_selb ]. We’re open Wed-Sat, 11am-5pm 🌱 Photography by Mitsi Moulson Studio [@mitsimoulson ]

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Take a look at some of the creations recently made in our ceramics space! 🔥 Book your spot on an induction to use the facilities for only £35! Completion of this induction will then grant you open access to our ceramic facilities Wed to Sat, 11-5pm (£15 for a 3 hour slot) 🔗Our next induction is Sat 9 May 10-11. Booking link in bio!

Family Art Fun Day: Make a Touch Tile 🫲 Thu 28 May 2-4pm Free & open to all Inspired by Lina Ivanova [@linavanova ]'s work in our current exhibition 'Tending', join us this half term to explore making a cast to use clay to capture plants as an act of Tending. Free & all ages welcome but this workshop is designed for families with children ages 4-8. 🔗 Link to upcoming events in bio!

What's on at Turf this fortnight? 🌱 🏺 Sat 9 May 10-11am Ceramics Space Induction Become a member of our open access ceramics studio! Inductions for Turf's hand building ceramics facilities take place monthly and cost £35 to cover a year's membership. Once completed, you’ll have access to book open studio sessions running Wed-Sat, 11am–5pm, at £15 per 3-hour slot. 👂 Sat 9 May 3:45pm-5pm Rest to Tend – Sound Bath Led by Shardaé Veniece [@shardaeveniece ] Immerse yourself in Tending through a Sound Bath experience that invites you to listen, hear and absorb the artwork. Focusing on the experience of sound as tending, rest on a beanbag or stand with eyes open and take in the exhibition. Shardaé will play singing bowls in response to the work in the gallery, easing you into restful engagement. ✏️ Sat 16 May 11am-1pm Drawing The Space Inside My Hand with Lina Ivanova [@linavanova ] Explore drawing as a sensory and embodied practice. Taking place during the exhibition Tending and alongside Lina’s Fungus Press commission at Reeves Corner, the workshop uses observational drawing to deepen ways of sensing and feeling. 🔗 Link to all upcoming events in bio!

Tending, our latest exhibition, invites you to consider how moving through the world can be nurtured through reclaiming our attention and being in our humanness. Visit us Wed-Sat, 11am-5pm 🌱 More information and full events programme via our website, free & open to all! Photography by Mitsi Moulson [@mitsimoulson ]