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Back in stock: FUKT & Community Gardens

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2024/12/06

It’s Bandcamp Friday, and we’ve just come into a restock of popular zines FUKT #22: The Nature Issue — exploring the timeless bond between drawing and the natural world — and Community Gardens #1, dedicated to sharing stories about the many community gardens which can be found scattered across the city of London. Needless to […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Lally MacBeth

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2024/12/06

For Lally MacBeth, 2024 was a year of sitting in blue plastic hospital chairs — where she found creativity entwined with wobbly, messy life. This year begins with a trip of sorts. To Southampton. On the last day of February a call comes, we bundle our possessions into suitcases, and take off not on holiday […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Cally Callomon

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2024/12/05

For creature of habit Cally Callomon, 2024 was a year of timetables, lists and order. Inondation – What the French call a flood, the English call too much. I’m a creature of habit, a slave to routine, willingly bound by timetables, lists and order — habits inherited from German and Swiss parents, perhaps, but also […]

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Stagdale Part 3

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2024/12/04

Illustrator, musician and Clay Pipe Music founder Frances Castle has just released Stagdale Part 3: the latest instalment of her graphic novel, which comes accompanied by a new soundtrack EP from her musical alter ego The Hardy Tree. Stagdale Part 3 continues the story of Kathy and Max, two strangers, a generation apart, who both unexpectedly find […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Nick Hand

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2024/12/03

As our seasonal contemplations continue, printmaker Nick Hand celebrates the UK’s libraries — many of which he visited on his printing bike this year. “My dad grew up in Ealing, Greenford, in the thirties. And the library was everything to him. He would choose books for his mum. Libraries were his learning. He was always […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Kurt Jackson

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2024/12/01

Every December and January, we invite our contributors, friends and comrades to look back over the last 12 months — resulting in the collective annual series known as Shadows & Reflections. Artist Kurt Jackson kicks off this year’s proceedings, sharing a 2024 filled with rivers and their music. It seems appropriate to write this after […]

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Abstract Advent 2024

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2024/11/30

Starting tomorrow, Abstract Advent is a daily creative challenge, designed with Ks1 to Ks5-age school groups in mind — but open to all participants. Between the 1st – 24th December 2024, create a daily response to the shape provided for that day. These will be shared on the Instagram account @artpedagogy each morning. The full set […]

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What Bird is That? — Birds of Prey

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2024/11/29

Award-winning animator Will Rose has just released the latest video in his excellent What Bird is That? series: this time demonstrating how to spot the difference between Buzzards, Red Kites, Kestrels and Sparrowhawks. Learn their distinctive flight style, shape, colour and behaviour, as well as the clues you can use to help find them: This […]

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Competition Results

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2024/11/28

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Polly Atkin’s The Company of Owls to give away, courtesy of Elliott & Thompson. We asked: For which book was Polly longlisted for the Wainwright Prize? And the answer is: Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not […]

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Un/Common People

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2024/11/27

Opening in Swindon this weekend, Un/Common People: Folk Culture in Wessex brings together over 100 objects, films, songs and stories to celebrate the folk art and seasonal customs of the Wessex region. The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Wessex Museums partnership and the Museum of British Folklore, highlights the connection between folk culture, people […]

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Peckham to Totnes

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2024/11/26

Honey Davis-Wilkinson shares a week-long, 359-mile cycle from London to Devon — as documented on her 35mm film camera. As I set off on my bike, heading for Hastings, Hampshire and beyond, I wasn’t expecting to sleep beside a python or find Orwellian coincidences gathering at dusk. But such, sometimes, can be the rules of […]

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Jeb’s Jukebox

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2024/11/24

Richie Havens on the turntable, Jeb Loy Nichols ponders the concept of democracy. Richie Havens What’s Going On? 1973 I’m called, the night after the American election, by a worried friend. The worry, he says, has to do with what he calls ‘our precious democracy’. I’m frightened, he says, that we’ve thrown it away. I […]

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Homecoming

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2024/11/23

A seasonal extract from Melissa Harrison’s latest book — a month-by-month guide to plug you back into the rhythms of the natural world. At this time of year, many fungi are busy breaking down the waste products of the growing season – spent leaves, seed pods, fruit, twigs, old bits of bark, dead wood and […]

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Couch to Cuillin, Mountains and Motherhood

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2024/11/22

On Skye’s Cuillin ridge, Bethan Roberts finds commonality between motherhood and the mountainous landscape. I’m sitting on the couch when a friend sends me the details for ‘Couch to Cuillin’. I’d spent many hours on this couch since moving to Skye and becoming a mother — learning how to breastfeed, breastfeeding, looking out to sea, […]

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Back in stock

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2024/11/21

Restocked on our Bandcamp page: copies of Black Lodge Press’s A Radical Garden — a 16-page A4 2 colour riso zine collecting posters and thoughts on the radical act of gardening and growing. The zine looks at Black Lodge Press founder Cj Reay’s own experience of gardening, as well as some of the radical history and present […]

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The Flitting

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2024/11/20

Sue Brooks reviews Ben Masters’s memoir — a consideration of masculinity, memory, identity, generational differences, loss and continuation, told through the pursuit of our elusive native butterflies. The excitement was there from the beginning. The dust jacket with the butterflies in the heavenly blue sky, the frontispiece photo of the little boy in the arms […]

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Water Voles: Lifting Baselines

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2024/11/19

Joe Marshall dives into water vole conservation efforts in Cornwall. Photo by Adrian Lee. All other images: Joe Marshall. High on a hill above Redruth, in the bank of a clear narrow stream, is a hole the size of a fist. A burrow entrance, dug out by the water voles that have made a home […]

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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest...

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2024/11/17

From their respective crofts in Wester Ross and Lochaber, Annie Worsley and Kirsteen Bell embark on a new joint column — bringing their lives and landscapes into conversation. Dear Annie, It’s been months since we met in Fort William to celebrate your wonderful book Windswept – but I thought of you last night, and the […]

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Now Playing

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2024/11/16

‘Song of the Cedars’ (MOTH Records). In a groundbreaking move for legal and environmental history, the MOTH (More Than Human) Life Collective has submitted a petition to Ecuador’s copyright office to recognise the Los Cedros cloud-forest as the co-creator of the song, composed in collaboration with musician Cosmo Sheldrake, writer Robert Macfarlane, field mycologist Giuliana […]

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Stanley Donwood – The Lost Domain

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2024/11/15

Later this month, Stanley Donwood returns to Jealous gallery, London EC2A, for The Lost Domain. The exhibition features a selection of works printed in the Jealous Print Studio. “‘The Lost Domain’ or ‘Le Grand Meaulnes’ is the title of the only book by Alain-Fournier, who was killed during the first month of the First World […]

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