The art projects I tend to work on mostly feature craftography. Craftography is a combination of the words ‘craft’ (an activity involving making things by hand) and ‘cartography’ (study and practice of making and using maps).
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Mini Community Zine Library project
I’m starting a project in earnest to develop a series of mini community zine libraries out in the world. I’ve set a deadline for the launch of this project for the 8th March 2025, at a gig I’m organising at the Cube in Bristol. I’m currently creating some zines for the initial collection, including one
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Mountain Biking by Bike – an imagined zine series
Mountain Biking by Bike has been an imagined zine series for some time. The series includes rides in the Welsh Valleys, the New Forest, the Highlands and King Alfred’s Way. I wanted to highlight how you can easily go mountain biking by bike for a small adventure for a few days (or more) away from
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Toilet Fest IV – Faecal Matters, Issue 1, Sept ’24
Toilet Fest IV saw the launch of Faecal Matters, a zine about poo by Art Bath made on toilet paper. It was distributed/sold rolled up in empty toilet rolls, collected since the idea of launching the zine at Toilet Fest came about. As many zines were made as there were empty toilet rolls and some
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Quilt (top) finished and taking Forest of Zine on tour
It took several months longer than I expected, but the quilt (top) is finished! I will get round to finishing the actual quilt at some point, but the quilt top is the main part and it gives me time to work out how I’m actually going to quilt it and let me work out how
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Quilting Busy Work
I’ve had a lot of the time over the winter to really develop ideas for the Forest of Zine and I have many things planned for the year ahead, including a cycle ride from Aberystwyth to the Forest of Dean for International Zine Library Day. I’ve got some more events, festivals, other fun stuff in
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Forest of Zine
Forest of Zine is my most recent project, and it’s substantial! Forest of Zine is a bicycle-based mobile/pop-up zine library. It launched in July 2023 in Ashton Hill Plantation, near Bristol (my favourite local wood) and enables people to engage with the collection in nature and encourages them to make their own zines informed by
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Full Moon Winter Dipping
This winter I set up a Full Moon Winter Dipping club with the aim to swim at each full moon during winter. The swims took place at either the moon rise or moon set, which we watched from Troopers Hills before or after the swim in Conham River Park. I created a zine to celebrate
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Community Forest Path Zine download
I’ve more or less given out all 46 A3 zines to the people who I wanted to, but also want to make them available here, in case anyone else is interested. I still have quite a few A4 versions left and at somepoint would like to distribute these along the path for people to find.
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Community Forest Path Zine
I created an ode to the Community Forest Path in zine form. It was launched at the Zinezilla event at Strange Brew on Saturday 8 October 2022. I’ve included some photos here from my walks around the 46 mile route and in the future I hope to create some sound art from the audio recordings
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45 Bridges
To celebrate my husband’s 45th Birthday we cycled over all 45 bridges in the Bristol area, going over each only once. I used a sewing machine to create the route on an LP sized sleeve. On the inside the bridges are labelled. We spent his birthday cycling over them all, taking pictures and audio recordings
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Edit the World packs
I created seven of these packs, like everything I make, they were compiled out of things I already had (and in some cases had been in my possession for some time). The idea came to me with the help of my friend Allison (who was the first recipient of one of the packs) and can
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D-touring America – Photo series
In 2018 me and my husband set off on our tandem, Martha around North America. Martha is named after the excellent Durham-based DIY band, whose new album is being released by our friends at Specialist Subject Records (who have a shop above Exchange) . We took photos of every place we stayed for the eleven
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South West Coast Path Embroidery
I started walking some of the South West Coast Path in 2011 whilst on holiday in Newlyn, just along from Penzance. I had no idea that a few years later I would decide that I’d like to walk the whole thing in my lifetime. I’m walking sections in no particular order or direction, all accessed
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D-touring America – Craft
I did a lot of preparation for both the trip and the quilt that I was to embroider on the way. It’s to scale and shows where we stayed each night with different symbols for campsites, Warmshowers hosts (non-profit hospitality exchange service for people engaging in bicycle touring) and other accommodation. It didn’t quite turn
Mossy Margins 