bucolic picnic

Bucolic Picnic (or, toile de jouy camouflage) 2009

is a film poem that uses found footage from a number of sources, including: a 1927 film version of Robinson Crusoe, amateur footage of people who make and use their own ghillie suits, documents relating to the history of toile de jouy textile production in France and the development and production of camouflage materials in Britain and the U.S..

Published in Film Poems. Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2014.

See compressed version of the film here.

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Walking the Book: from medieval object, urban flâneuse, to run(a)way disgust

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https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/walking-book-medieval-object-urban-flaneuse-runaway-disgust This session focuses on the properties of the handmade object and foregrounds the necessity of craft and  embodied practice in a digital era in which disgust and pleasure are often encountered by proxy or at one remove from actual … Continue reading →

fossil oil: a book of hours

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The poet and artist, Redell Olsen, known for her hybrid poetic texts, films and performances launches a new bookwork: Fossil Oil: a book of hours to be shown at TATE Britain as part of AM Bruno’s Intervals project on 18th October 2024 and at the Small Publisher’s Fair in Conway Hall, London on the 25th and 26th of October. Continue reading →

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Group Exhibition – Refugees Welcome

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Jill Eastman – ‘Sanam’s Journey’

Refugees Welcome Here: Cambridge Artworks welcomes refugees and asylum seekers.

Presented as part of the Platforma Festival 2025, produced by Counterpoints Arts.

Friday 17 th October to Sunday 19 th October
12 to 6pm


Preview Friday 17 th October 7pm to 9pm

This show brings together the work of studio artists based at Cambridge Artworks and refugees in Cambridge.

Several of the Artworks studio artists have been working alongside refugees and creating art about displacement for many years, some are migrants or refugees themselves. This exhibition enables us to demonstrate our solidarity and continued support for refugees in Cambridge and the UK.

Contributing Artists

Jan Ayton
Anna Brownsted
Rachel Dormor
Jill Eastland
Kiarash Khazaei
Susan Mealing
Idit Nathan
Mohammad Noureddini
Dell Olsen
Mojgan Rajabpour
Sally Todd
Sarah Wood
Rachel Wooller
John Yayen
Sanam Yousef


Additional women refugees attending Cambridge Women’s Resources Centre

Details here: https://counterpoints.org.uk/event/refugees-welcome-here/

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