The Jumper Chair (2022) was made in collaboration with designer Carl Clerkin as part of his Beasley Brothers Repair Shop installation in the Eternally Yours – Care, Repair and Healing exhibition at Somerset House, London. Clerkin was commissioned to build a functioning repair shop in the galleries of Somerset House. SCP along with Very Good and Proper, Ercol, Pearson Lloyd, Jasper Morrison Studio and John Tree Studio all donated components to the shop. Broken parts, excess stock, and waste material were sent to be repurposed. Clerkin and a host of designer-makers set to work, breathing life into unwanted materials.

Robins used an old hand knitted sweater to dress an Ercol steam bent bow that was connected to a Very Good and Proper chair base and plywood seat shell to make the chair. The Jumper Chair was exhibited during Eternally Yours – Care, Repair and Healing, Somerset House, London (13 July – 20 September 2022), Material Matters design fair, that took place during the London Design Festival (22 – 25 September 2022) and SCP, London (4 – 12 October 2022), culminating in a live auction of all the Beasley Brothers Repair Shop products.

Exhibiting as part of The Blackwater Polytechnic (Ben Coode-Adams, Sara Impey, Justin Knopp and Simon Emery – The Paintbox) with the collaborative work, Tree, in the Craftspace national touring exhibition, We are Commoners: Creative Acts of Commoning. Touring from 2021 – 2022.

The exhibition highlights acts of ‘commoning’ that are shaping the way communities are working together to share and steward commonly owned assets and resources. It also investigates craft as a form of commons through knowledge, materials, practice and heritage.

Exhibiting alongside Amy Twigger Holroyd, Deirdre Nelson, Hefin Jones (ODG Assembly), Linda Brothwell, Jacky Oliver, Common Agency Projects (Shane Waltener & Laura Glaser), Lise Bjørne Linnert with Gelawesh Waledkhani, Rachael Colley, Alinah Azadeh, Kate Hodgson, Ele Carpenter, Pinkie Maclure, Alice McLean and Justine Boussard, Claudia Rodriguez, Ana Joaquina Ramirez and Rosina Santana Castellon.

Exhibition opened at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales, touring to Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester; Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon; The Civic, Barnsley; National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, The Gallery, Hull Central Library and We are the Minories, Colchester.

Photography: Dewi Tannatt Lloyd

360˚ virtual tour of exhibition

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CC binder, Forum 9, 2870 Puurs-Sint-Amands, Belgium
25 October – 13 December 2020

Exhibiting alongside Achim Kobe, Alexander Marinus, Annie Wintein, Caroline Achaintre, Christophe Coppens, Delphine Desguilage, Dialogist Kantor, Franz West, Gommaar Gilliams, Hilde Overbergh, Ilse Van Roy, Kinoshita Suchan, Madeleine Wermenbol, Mirre Yayla Seur, Sofie Haesaerts, Victor Alimpiev and Marian Zhunin, with storytellers Luisa Soipi and Pablo Hannon.

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Curated by Hilde Overbergh and Ilse Van Roy

Photography: Frederic Geurts

Thames-Side Studios Gallery
Harrington Way, Woolwich, London SE18 5NR
1 – 16 February 2020

New Doggerland is a new multi-disciplinary artists project for a future imagining of physical and cultural re-connection between Britain and the European mainland. Doggerland is the name given to the ancient landmass, now submerged, that once connected Britain to Northern Europe. What if a new land mass rises up and we become physically part of the mainland again? New Doggerland is a project about future land and humans. It asks questions to which the exhibitors and participants respond with different ideas and answers. Who will be living there and how? It may evoke a Ballardian dystopia, or ideas of possible Utopia. Or could New Doggerland be the heterotopia where we go to experience ‘other’ selves, a place of becoming?

Exhibiting alongside: Fran Burden, Clare Burnett, Alison Cooke, Richard Ducker, Elaborate Kingdom, Deborah Gardner, Oona Grimes, Sula Hancock, Nicky Hodge, Melanie King, Sarah Kogan, Jo Lawrence, Jane Millar, Stephen Nelson, Sarah Sparkes and Virginia Verran.

Curated by Jane Millar

Photography: Justin Piperger

Messums Wiltshire
Place Farm, Court Street, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6LW
9 March – 28 April 2019

An exhibition of works by artists working in tapestry and textile from 800 AD to the present day.

Exhibiting alongside Anni Albers, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Adam Belcher, Louise Bourgeois, George Braque, Antoni Calvé, Oscar Dominguez, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Roger Fry, Magne Furuholmen, Liam Gillick, Ashley Havinden, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Des Hughes, Kurt Jackson, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth, Francesca Lowe, Goshka Macuga, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Christian Newby, Ben Nicholson, Pablo Picasso, John Piper, Laure Prouvost, Alan Reynolds, William Scott, Nicholas de Staël, Hans Tisdal, Rosemarie Trockel, Gavin Turk, Keith Vaughan, Paule Vézelay and Henrik Vibskov.

A colour catalogue is available from Messums.

Photography: Steve Russell

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