THE INSPIRATION

The tenets of the Bauhaus were wonderfully expressed by Anni Albers. When her words were displayed in her 2019 exhibition at Tate Modern, they resonated, they inspired.  

‘I tried to put my students at the point of zero. I tried to have them imagine, let’s say, that they are in a desert in Peru, no clothing, no nothing … so what do you do? You wear the skin of some kind of animal maybe to protect yourself from too much sun or maybe the wind occasionally. And you want a roof over something and so on. And how do you gradually come to realise what a textile can be? And we start at that point.’

Starting with a blank sheet, begin a new adventure in collaboration. Call it ‘the point of zero’. See where it goes. 

The point of zero is a place for ideas that sit outside our day to day projects – explorations, whims and obsessions that will have an output here and in the physical world.

We work together with other creative folk to make something interesting to share, inspired by what’s around us.

 

CALL AND RESPONSE
You are there. I am here.

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BIRDSONG
12 songs

Penny Hemphill has worked in nature conservation as an Ecologist with Suffolk Wildlife Trust for the last twenty years. ‘My interest in birds came from my father who inspired me with birdsong as a child. Each spring the delight as the birds begin their territorial chorus is even better than the last, especially as the migrants begin to arrive to swell the orchestra. This year, in lockdown, has been an opportunity to record birds in my Suffolk garden and through the skills of Holmes Studio collaborate to create a visual impression of the birds and their songs to inspire others to enjoy the colours and sounds of nature.’

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THE LUNGS OF LONDON
The Garden Squares of London
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FINDING FACES
Revealing faces in unusual places.
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MAKING FACES
Reinterpreting faces from unusual places.
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