Installation by artist Sophie Michael featuring 'Block 1' Nashprint tea towel. Sophie is currently in her final year at the Royal Academy School, London.
"Sophie Michael’s films are like a visual hide-and-seek. Her work brings together sculpture and film in such a way that ordinary objects are transformed for us by the minutely directed specificity of her looking. The reels unfold kaleidoscopically before the eye, looping through analogue sequences of manipulated light and glimpsed environments that are both confused and familiar yet all shot through with an acute awareness of the nostalgia we attach to both formats and objects." (Eva Rothschild, Frieze article)
Today I made a trip from London to High Wycombe to visit Out of the Dark, a charity that recycles, repurposes and revamps salvaged
furniture as a means to educate, train and employ young people from
disadvantaged backgrounds. It was great to meet Jade, one of
the founders of the charity along with her husband Jay. Interestingly, High
Wycombe used to be the centre of furniture production in the 20th
century with renowned names such as Ercol, G-Plan and Parker Knoll leaving
their mark on the town.
It was really inspiring to see Out
of the Dark’s studio with so many beautiful treasures of furniture
carefully being restored by young apprentices. Here are a few of my particular favourites,
check out their online shop as they are all for sale!
