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Gradual renewal – the art of architecture

It was a pleasure to meet up recently with Derek Latham at Lancaster West estate in North Kensington where I was community artist in residence. He worked for the architectural firm of Clifford Wearden and Associates in the late 1960s […]

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Christmas cheer and conflict

I’ve almost concluded my artist residency at Lancaster West estate. There has been a hiatus to the community project work that has consisted of making large scale drawings for a mural and a short film. The regeneration works on Grenfell […]

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This estate is Royal Blue by design

When post and pizza deliveries, family friends or council reps, come and  visit Lancaster West for the first time, they have to navigate the complex lay out of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s largest estate. Are you going […]

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V&A Museum Community Artist in Residence, 2014-15

For the first time, the V&A, in partnership with RIBA and supported by RBKC, staged a community-based artist residency.  My studio at 7 Shalfleet Drive was attached to the More West housing development. This is the first housing development in […]

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Home Sweet Home – Film programme at the V&A

The entrance to the Architecture Gallery at the V&A has a classic marble staircase. It echoes to the sound of history. On the 19th and 20th November 2014, I held a film screening and paper folding workshop here. Visitors approaching the […]

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