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We are pleased to announce that the Whitton Small Press have introduced a new model to their fleet of typewriters. Its the Underwood 315 which has a fetching turquoise carriage and matches nicely with the Whitton Library paintwork. Do join … Continue reading →

Nelson Primary small press experts finished their Whitton walking books with a Japanese binding stitch. Their rubbings, which they made on a walk around Whitton, look fantastic and make interesting reading.

The amazing group from Nelson Primary School have been tackling flip books from observational drawing, (above you can see their warm up drawings of bee’s, cups and koala bears) Emily and I will be filming their flip books to make … Continue reading →

Emily and I have been designing a leaflet for distribution that could advertise our residency in the library in November.  It happily involved getting all our rubber stamps out and playing around, this is what we’re good at.

Emily and I have been working with a talented group of pupils from Nelson Primary School.  We are guiding them through their Arts Award Explore, with the support of Liz Howell, who is Arts Festivals Coordinator at the Richmond upon … Continue reading →

Emily and I made a good excursion to the London Arts Book Fair for some book art appreciation and to begin an artist’s book collection to take to Whitton Libarary.   Mark Pawson was there with his exciting work, and we … Continue reading →

Emily and I have just finished a 15 week project with young people at the Cambridge Youth Foyer for the Circuit programme in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard. We started the project by introducing the group to the work of Henri … Continue reading →

Emily and I really pleased to say that we’ve been awarded an Arts Council Funded residency in Whitton Library.  We’ve been doing some research, and we’ll start in earnest in September helping pupils at Nelson Primary School with an Arts … Continue reading →

Preparations for our Bureau  are continuing at top speed.  We’ve visited the foreshore to fetch more treasures, we’ve unearthed all items of stationary and furniture that will help transform the Floating Cinema, we’ve bought a modest costume, raided the scrap … Continue reading →

Lizzy spent a sweltering few hours on the Tower of London foreshore today researching archeology with The Thames Discovery Programme. This part of the foreshore isn’t open to the public, and isn’t often revealed by a low tide, so it … Continue reading →