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NO.22 NIKKI GARDHAM
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far 'We are trained as we grow,' Nikki explains, 'to look for a route that others have passed through before us.' Her works on canvas and paper - now showing in our London and Bath galleries - with their amorphous figures are a reminder that, within our surroundings, we are merely... Read more -
NO.21 ZACH ZONO
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far Introducing a new artist to the 8 Holland Street family is always exciting – especially one who dresses up for the occasion! “Getting dressed for the studio is definitely my way of getting into a work mentality,” a t-shirt and joggers don’t quite cut it, Zach Zono explains. “In my... Read more -
NO.20 JILLY EDWARDS
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far From Jilly's bedroom window, the creamy spires and finials of Bath stretch up to the valley beyond and, though the paint is barely dry, she is very much settled in and seeking inspiration. 'We just came into the Virgo moon,' a serendipitous sign, she explains, 'a time for moving forward... Read more -
NO.19 JULIAN MEREDITH
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far Julian Meredith’s enormous studio, a walk of a mile or so from his house, was teeming with turkeys until he took over, filling it with five or six huge paint-stained worktables and stencils of blue fin tuna, bigger than him. Outside he dries pieces of timber with long streams of... Read more -
NO.18 DITTE BLOHM
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far Ditte Blohm shares her East London studio with other ceramicists, although it would be fair to say she has a few more feathers to her cap - she is a sculptor, lighting designer and tableware extraordinaire too. Having studied Fine Art at university in Denmark, where she hails from, Ditte... Read more -
NO.17 1690 CERAMICS
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far Sophie Wilson's 1690 Ceramics was conceived when she opened a little shop in her Lincolnshire home, 'it was the kind of place where I imagined Ron Weasley's mother would go for her essentials, a Diagon Alley-style shop with lotions and potions'. A desire to sell local studio ceramics led her... Read more -
NO.16 CLAUDIA RANKIN
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far Claudia Rankin’s first taste of ceramic form, pattern and colour came from her antique dealer mother who dealt in oriental porcelain ‘The house was full of wonderful pots, coming and going and I think a part of me kept hold of that.’ Born in London, an MA in sculpture at... Read more -
NO.15 ALVARO PICARDO
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far Alvaro Picardo shares his light-filled home with his partner, an Old Master paintings dealer. The space is filled with reds on greens and deep blues, an ode to the sumptuous palette of Old Master painting but interspersed with the impasto strokes of Modern British art and the geometry of Brutalism.... Read more -
NO.14 CHRISTOPHER MARVELL
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far Christopher Marvell's studio is conveniently situated in the back garden of his Cambridgeshire home where he lives with his artist wife, Elaine. His large, bright sculpture studio is littered with plaster moulds of animals and monumental, life-sized figures. He has been casting in bronze for thirty years now, a material... Read more -
NO.13 NICOLA TASSIE
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far Nicola Tassie has occupied her top floor East London studio for thirty years. The space is a visual timeline of her work, much of which she retains in the hope of repurposing. “Going back to unresolved pieces makes you think more deeply of the responsibility of making in an increasingly... Read more -
NO.12 INQ
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street’s neighbours, near and far An academic grounding in architecture gave Florence Saumarez a curiosity as to how things are made and a fearless streak - she's not one to simply rest on her laurels. Stumbling upon a video from the 1970s demonstrating marbling captured her imagination, “it had never really occurred to me to... Read more -
NO.11 CATARINA RICCABONA
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street’s neighbours, near and far Catarina has been making textiles on large beasts such as this since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2007. In 2012 she won the Cockpit Arts/Clothworkers’ Foundation in 2012, the same year she established her studio. The process takes careful planning and these years of experience to envisage how each... Read more -
NO.10 JOSEPH GOODY
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street’s neighbours, near and far Pinned up to the wall in the artist Joseph Goody’s south London studio is a series of postcards. They include a 15th century battle scene by Paolo Uccello, a still life by wartime painter Paul Nash and a haunting portrait of a nude by Edvard Munch. Not one abstract?, I... Read more -
NO.9 GEORGIA LOIZOU
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street’s neighbours, near and far 'When I was at art school, I used to wonder why people would do pottery. What a strange thing for someone to do,” says Georgia Loizou sitting in her studio a handful of miles outside Bath. Having designed everything from book jackets to corporate identities and textiles for fashion houses... Read more -
NO.8 TOBIAS VERNON
UP OUR STREET - 8 Holland Street’s neighbours, near and far “I’ve always liked the idea of a dual place; the yin and the yang of somewhere in London with somewhere a bit more lowkey such as Somerset,” says Tobias. This has been the case for two years now, ever since he moved into this (appropriately) two-up, two-down cottage in the... Read more -
NO.7 TYGA HELME
Up Our Street - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far WE MEET TYGA HELME IN THE WILTSHIRE COUNTRYSIDE TO SEE HOW THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN NATURE AND PAINTING ARE MERRILY BLURRED. With her works so alive with nature, relocating from London to Wiltshire in March last year was a logical step for Tyga Helme. Her oil paintings and pastel drawings are... Read more -
NO.6 PAOLO BUFFA
Up Our Street - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far IN A FANTASY, WE HAVE BROUGHT PAOLO BUFFA BACK TO LIFE AND IMAGINED A VISIT TO HIS HOME AND STUDIO... Italian designer Paolo Buffa is sitting quietly on a proto-type chair smoking a Gauloises by the window. He is looking out towards his hometown of Cantu, and although still, every... Read more -
NO.5 PRUE PIPER
Up Our Street - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far ON A VISIT TO ARTIST PRUE PIPER’S HOME AND STUDIO, WE ARE REMINDED THAT THINGS WILL GET BRIGHTER… The air in artist Prue Piper’s home and studio is thick with otherworldliness that she bats away as if mundane. We wanted to gain insight into Prue’s world, and into her process... Read more -
NO.4 RACHAEL COCKER & ALI HEWSON
Up Our Street - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far FOR THIS DECEMBER EDITION OF UP OUR STREET, WE ARE CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP (WHILST BEING JOLLY...CAREFUL) BY EXPLORING THE LIVES OF ARTISTS RACHAEL COCKER AND ALI HEWSON… As people and ceramicists, Rachael Cocker is polished where Ali Hewson is honed. This is apparent in their ceramics, and in their studios, as... Read more -
NO.3 CHRISTINE VAN DER HURD
Up Our Street - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far ON AN AUTUMNAL MORNING ON PORTOBELLO ROAD, WE SPOKE TO DEAR FRIEND CHRISTINE VAN DER HURD ABOUT DAY-TO-DAY LIFE AT VANDERHURD … Vanderhurd HQ cuts a grey figure on Portobello Road. In the forecourt a VW Golf is parked by an old wooden door that hosts a small sign with... Read more -
NO.2 FREYA BRAMBLE CARTER & STUDIO KROKALIA
Up Our Street - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far FOR OUR SECOND FEATURE, WE SPOKE TO ARTISTS AND FRIENDS FREYA BRAMBLE-CARTER AND STUDIO KROKALIA ABOUT THEIR COLLABORATION… As we approached their North London studio Pallas waved us down, her face peeping through a car full of ceramics and antiques; a preview of the studio where ceramicist Freya Bramble-Carter and... Read more -
NO.1 RICHARD COOK
Up Our Street - 8 Holland Street's neighbours, near and far FOR OUR FIRST FEATURE, WE SPOKE TO ARTIST RICHARD COOK ABOUT DAY-TO-DAY LIFE IN HIS POETIC SEA-SIDE STUDIO… Cornwall based painter Richard Cook sees his art as on the fringes of nature in its importance to him. On a recent visit Cook described a ‘magical sea’ within which he searches... Read more
