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Freddie Robins will be exhibiting in Spacetime: awkward ;-) Curated and hosted by Grange Projects and Blackwater Polytechnic.

Spacetime: awkward ;-) It is a collaborative project by Blackwater Polytechnic and Grange Projects that responds to an accelerated and unstable world by building slowly, with skillful labour, friction and joyful imperfection. The stand works as a shared environment where polish gives way to presence, and where awkwardness becomes a way of looking harder, staying longer and making space for conversation. Be difficult.

Erskinehuset, Slakthusområdet (the former Meatpacking District)
Hallvägen 21
121 62 Johanneshov
Stockholm, Sweden

Opening hours:
Thursday 23 – Friday 24 April 14.00–20.00
Saturday 25 April 12.00–20.00
Sunday 26 April 12.00–18.00

Admission: 200 SEK
Seniors and students admission: 160 SEK
4-day pass incl Catalogue/Art Magazine: 600 SEK
Free admission up to 16 years

Exhibiting alongside Ben Coode-Adams, Cailin Cummins, Sophie Giller, Tilly Hawkins (Nukleopatra), Sara Impey, John Plowman, Sally Plowman, Plowman and Cummins & Nicola Streeton

Download Press Release here

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To register you place please contact katy@seetapateldance.org by 14th January 2026.

The Art Station in Saxmundham invites you to dive headfirst into a riotous, exhilarating new exhibition presented by the Anglian Embassy (Blackwater Polytechnic in collaboration with the Grange Projects) — two insanely imaginative collectives whose playful, hands-on spirit blasts straight through the barriers of art and expectation. Their impact far outstrips their size. No holds barred.

Saturday 4 – Saturday 25 October 2025
Open 10am – 4pm weekdays, 12pm – 4pm Saturdays, closed Sundays
The Art Station, 48 High Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1AB

Saturday 18 October 4pm – 6pm
Performances from Plowman and Cummins, Nukleopatra and Stuart Bowditch
The Old Bank, 24 High Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1AE

Opening party Friday 3 October 6pm – 8pm. All welcome

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Freddie Robins has won the prestigious Brenda M. King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles 2025, awarded by The Textile Society, for her essay Softness is Power: A feminist discussion and subversion of softness.

“Within this essay Robins explores and questions the art world’s acceptance of the ‘soft stuff’. Despite the resurgence of interest in textiles in recent years, and the more prevalent utilisation of textiles by ‘fine artists’ as well as ‘textile artists’ it seems that there is still a reluctance to accept and acknowledge the physical characteristics of textile work. This ‘debate’ is not new, it has been discussed in many forums, but more from the craft and textile perspectives than from the fine art perspective. Freddie Robins’ essay demonstrates that this investigation is valid and ongoing, providing an interesting and pertinent summary of ‘soft stuff’ and how it is viewed within the contemporary art world.”

The essay will be published in The Textile Society’s annual journal Text No.52.

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Freddie Robins is featured in TEXTILE FINE ART – Conversations with Artists Creating by Hand by Helen Adams textilecurator.com, with foreward by Ann Coxon. Published by Laurence King, London 2025.

“This volume brings together the work of 50 contemporary artists who use textiles. All are linked through their commitment to creating by hand but each brings a unique perspective. Through their conversations with textile curator, Helen Adams, we discover the artists’ pathways, motivations and inspirations in their own words.”
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Other new publications featuring Freddie Robins:

Brink (a chapter authored by Freddie Robins and Zoe Laughlin) in Contemporary Thinking on Play, edited by Victoria de Rijke & Rebecca Sinker, published by Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 2025.
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Narrative Textiles: Tell your story in mixed media and stitch by Ailish Henderson, published by Batsford, London, 2024.
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The Forgotten Her Story is a platform dedicated to celebrating uniquely female achievements in craftsmanship, artistry and creativity.

Founded by Manuela Wirth, The Forgotten Her Story offers an intimate glimpse into the life and creative process of one extraordinary woman each month, celebrating her legacy and contribution to our cultural landscape. We share the stories of some of the most fascinating women of our time – remarkable artists, craftswomen and thinkers you may never have encountered.

In this chapter Celia Pym is in conversation with Freddie Robins in Celia’s Islington-based studio, recorded exclusively for The Forgotten Her Story in February of 2025.

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Any, Body, Home
5 July – 31 August 2025
Private View: 6:00pm 24 July 2025 book free tickets for Private View here

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Bold St, Warrington WA1 1JG
Open Wednesday-Friday 10 am–4:30 pm, Saturday 10 am–4 pm, Sunday 11 am–3 pm, Monday & Tuesday closed
Entrance free

Featuring works by Natalie Baxter, Susie Green, Marie Jones, Ivy Kalungi, Rachel Maclean, Flo Perry, Amalia Pica, Freddie Robins, Emily Speed, and Katie Tomlinson, the exhibition spans painting, sculpture, film, installation, and performance.

Any, Body, Home questions and reimagines the domestic, spotlighting narratives around power, identity, beauty, labour, memory and belonging. It looks beyond the windows through which we often view the world, opening up intimate and critical reflections on how “home” is experienced, shaped, and claimed.

The works in Any, Body, Home are bound by a shared concern with the domestic and the bodily — how spaces shape us, and how we shape them. From architectural spaces that mirror cultural displacement to garments that speak of inherited roles, from homes of control and violence to sites of care and ritual, the exhibition reveals the domestic as both sanctuary and site of struggle. The body, often central — whether adorned, trapped, performing, or dissolving into its surroundings — becomes a vessel for storytelling and resistance. Together, these works disrupt conventional ideas of femininity and homemaking, offering alternative, sometimes subversive narratives that challenge what it means to dwell, to nurture, and to belong.

Curated by Culture Warrington Associate Artist Marie Jones.

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Freddie Robins will be exhibiting with the Blackwater Polytechnic as part of the Anglian Embassy at Juxtapose Art Fair, Aarhus, Denmark.

Juxtapose Art Fair 2025
13 – 15 June
Godsbanen, Rå Hal, Karen Wegeners Gade 4, 8000 Aarhus

Friday 13 June 16:00-20:00, Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 June 12:00-17:00

Free Entrance

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