I'm excited to be leading a free walk on Saturday 3rd June for this year's London Festival of Architecture, exploring open spaces in Nine Elms. In between all the tall, shiny new buildings and ginormous cranes, a new park is being created that will eventually form a pedestrian route from Vauxhall to Battersea Power Station, …
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woman with a red clipboard
A week ago I led the last in a series of ten walks around the Nine Elms area in Battersea. This was part of a programme of free activities for local people funded by Wandsworth Council, with my 'Walks and Talks in Nine Elms' billed as a chance for people to explore the area and …
found ~ flow ~ flux launched into the world
It's just over a week since I launched the found text poetry booklet found ~ flow ~ flux into the world. This was the culmination of my project, which was commissioned earlier this year by Wandsworth Council. Held in the same room where I'd run the workshops back in June, the launch was such a …
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workflow
Just a few weeks ago I met up with my fellow 2021 Manchester Fiction Prize judges Nicholas Royle and Simon Okotie to decide on the overall winner from our shortlist of six stories. Over the previous months we'd read hundreds of stories, and then gradually whittled our unofficial longlist down to six via email. It's …
making art – and finding poetry – in Nine Elms
When I saw a call-out earlier this year for artists' proposals to make new work in Nine Elms on the theme of 'movement + metamorphosis', I knew I wanted to throw my hat in the ring. I've been following the changing nature of the area around me for years, and here was a chance for …
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June Review
June was a busy and rewarding month for me. The Wandsworth Heritage Festival, postponed from last year, kicked off at the end of May, and on the third of June Joolz Sparkes and I gave an online reading from our co-authored poetry collection London Undercurrents. We'd chosen poems that related in one way or another …
towards dawn
. . . and here it is - the advent window Luke Walker and I have created for the Nine Elms Advent Window Trail. Our window officially 'opened' at 5pm today and I'm very excited to share it. Please enjoy a virtual chocolate 🍫 in celebration. You can read more about the background to this …
windows (& some words) lit large
The Nine Elms Advent Calendar launches today, an initiative organised by the Nine Elms Arts Ministry, following on from their inaugural Advent Window trail last year. Back then, when we could all huddle together outside sipping mulled wine and singing carols, there was a grand unveiling each evening of a new window over the 24 …
By Our Own Hand – first outing
Last Friday was the preview of the very first showing of By Our Own Hand, a collaborative artwork devised by the artist Richard Grayson. It was also the first exhibition in Matt's Gallery's new space in Nine Elms - a double celebration! The finished artwork is made up of 42 panels designed and stitched primarily …
reflecting on A Song for Nine Elms
We had a busy Saturday in the Doddington & Rollo Community Roof Garden recently. A shared harvest lunch, followed by an inspiring and practical workshop, Growing Edible Plants in the City, led by Sue Sheehan of Incredible Edible. And then, in the community centre downstairs, the first screening of the film A Song for Nine …
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