For a change from building work I dropped in on the Furness bee keepers skep making workshop and a found a farm kitchen strewn with straw and weaving enthusiasts, a medieval scene. For Lawson Park we are planning to use this material to back the window seats but of course it is harder to find someone to to it - mostly being used in Orkney and the Orkney weavers being unwilling to come so far south. So.... it doesn't look so hard, unless this was a particularly talented group with a special affinity for straw. This great example illustrated on the right is made with orange plastic baler twine, now that could be nice.

Posted by Adam Sutherland on 25/06/08 at 11:28 : 0 Comments

Topics: 'skep' 'furness beekeepers'

Peter Inman's animal planters await TNT for their trip to the 'Far West' exhibition at Arnofini in Bristol.

Along side many other 'products' from the Japan and China projects as well as products from the honesty stall network, there will be a stall running the duration of the programme, so if your in Bristol and have a sudden and urgent need for a dog planter, mare's milk, a bone comb or some wild Chinese mountain honey in an old coke bottle you will find all your needs quickly met at the Arnofini art gallery, and it's not often you can say that.
Works and collaborations from:
Myvillages, Pope and Guthrie, Seven Samurai, Happy Stacking 7, Public Works, Peter Hodgson, Peter Inman and many others

Posted by Adam Sutherland on 24/06/08 at 14:31 : 0 Comments

Topics: 'public works' 'myvillages' 'Arnofini' 'Far West' 'Peter Inman' 'Pope and Guthrie' 'Seven Samurai' 'Happy Stacking 7' 'Peter Hodgson'

Honesty Stall at Rochelle School, London

Höfer Waren stall 2007, Höfen

Our proposed so called village shop has opened, a while ago, and been up and running at various locations with different product ranges at random prices, and together with Grizedale and public works and somewhere we have become happy and busy traders.

The shop appears under such different names as:
Honesty Box
Internationaler Dorfladen
Honesty Stall
Village Kiosk
Sufelje

Shop activities have shifted to other blogs:

the myvillages.org website
the myvillages/public works blog on the Agrifashionsita.tv website
and the still rudimentaryvillage kiosk blog.

Posted by Kathrin Böhm on 23/06/08 at 22:13 : 1 Comment

Topics: 'Honesty Stall' 'Village Kiosk' 'Internationaler Dorfladen' 'Sufelje' 'Honesty Box'

Friday 20th July in the Yard, visits from artists Nina Pope, Stuart Bastic of Artgene, discussion likely to cover 'Song For a Circus' and Stuart's shack project in Barrow.

Posted by Adam Sutherland on 19/06/08 at 13:55 : 0 Comments

Topics: 'Stuart Bastick' 'Nina Pope' 'shack' 'arnold circus' 'song for a circus'

Improve my view for £15,000

Friday 13th, the heatwave continues, the power comes back just in time and Alistair flys in from Egremont in the very nick. Reports on Guestroom at the ICA, What Michaela RSA Crimon said, and Adam's holiday and the Folkstone Tirennale,

Posted by Adam Sutherland on 13/06/08 at 15:39 : 0 Comments