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This new publication, edited by Benke Carlsson, provides a really interesting guide to the huge variety of materials and techniques utilised within the contemporary street art scene. It features the moss graffiti recipe from this website too!

I might well be accused of being overly sentimental but...
Crystal Palace Park, London

April 2010


The First Dandelion of Spring...

March, 2010
Spitalfields City Farm, London

 

 


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Really excited to be included in this new Gestalten publication 'Urban Interventions' (left)... can't wait to read it!
Editors: R. Klanten, M. Huebner

Also there is a small mention for sfs in the latest issue of French environmental publicationTerra Eco (right)


Pandora's Box

Danger lurks around the corner in Melbourne's North Fitzroy....'

 

 


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Whilst I continue to live it up in Melbourne, London's Spacehijackers have been kind enough to agree to present a walk and talk presentation of SFS's Operation Ivy League Project as part as The Barbican Art Gallery's 'Do Something Different Weekend'.
Join the Hijackers on a mission to plant climbing plants in the forgotten corners of the city and give them a big hug from me!

Meet at The Barbican Centre, London: 26 July 2009 at 2:00pm
Map

Credit Crunch
North Fitzroy, Melbourne



The lovely people at Frankie magazine have kindly decided to feature us on their blog!

'Frankie magazine is a national bi-monthly based in Australia, aimed at women (and men) looking for a magazine that’s as smart, funny, sarcastic, friendly, cute, rude, arty, curious and caring as they are.'

Click image to see blog entry, May 2009


Stories from Space are featuring in the latest issue of 'Don't Panic'.
Please click on their logo(left) to read the interview
with James Read

Baba Yaga's Kingdom receives some very important guests....
Click on the image link (right) and scroll down to the bottom of the page to find out more.

 

 




Many thanks to Carl for the images


New drawing:
 Sky at Night, Melbourne, March 2009

Baba Yaga's Kingdom
Batman St
North Fitzroy
Melbourne,
Feb, 2009

 

 

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Click on image to download a recent interview with Jacque Lynn Schiller...bless you Jacque for asking such nice questions! There website is wicked by the way so will just put a link to that here too: www.designformankind.com

Adbusters
Endgame Strategies, Issue 82, March/April 2009

'We have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it is coming apart at the seams. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance is scattered and incoherent. The global justice movement is a shadow of its former self. For the simple reason that it’s impossible to maintain perpetual growth on a finite planet, it’s possible that in a generation or so capitalism will no longer exist. Faced with this prospect, people’s knee-jerk reaction is often fear. They cling to capitalism because they can’t imagine a better alternative...'
From 'Tactical Briefing' by David Graeber
SFS are very excited to announce that this issue of Adbusters includes our weed enclosure project...


Fish Memorials

In loving memory of the countless goldfish that have gone to meet their maker via a trip down the u-bend... people, it's just not good enough!

Click image to view text and further memorials


Actions: What You Can Do With the City (see below) is reviewed in the latest edition of Canada's C Magazine, with a teeny weeny mention of SFS's Operation Ivy League Project - yay!

Exhibition at the Canadian Centre of Architecture Montreal

Actions: What You Can Do With the City
26 November 2008 - 19 April 2009
An exploration of how everyday human actions can animate and influence the perception and experience of contemporary cities. Seemingly common activities such as gardening, recycling, playing, and walking are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their experimental interactions with the urban environment show the potential of a new level of participation by city residents.

Click links below to view Stories from Space projects included in the show:
Ivy Invades London
Beer Makes Gardens

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation...

Stories from Space have escaped the bitter winds of London for a while to a new home in Melbourne, Australia! Melbourne is teeming with hidden laneways, nooks and crannies just waiting for some miniature action to unfold... watch this space!

In other news, SFS projects are due to be featured in a number of upcoming publications including Adbusters (Canada) and Stereograph Boogazine (Barcelona)...

January 2009


New drawing
Limehouse Cut, tumbling brick wall


New drawing in Issue 1 of 20x20 magazineCo-edited by Francesca Ricci and Giovanna Paterno
London,UK, Summer 2008

20*20 magazine is a square platform for writings, visuals and cross-bred projects. Rather than on a theme, each issue is assembled around meta-words to be interpreted, researched, illustrated according to a loose, wide and multi-angled perspective. The intent is to create homogeneity of spirit within each issue, without the restrictions of a ‘theme’ as such.

The Lost World of the Squirrel God
A secret world discovered in London's Victoria Park...

 

 

 


:
 Little man mowing the moss,
St Anne's Churchyard, Limehouse, 2008


New drawing:
 Brick Wall at Night, Limehouse



Stories from Space was featured in L'Uomo Vogue (Italy), July/Aug, 2008 and Relevant Magazine (USA) Nov/Dec, 2008

On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries
By Richard Reynolds, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008

'A call to arms, from the founding member of guerrillagardening.org, that charts the revolutionary history of guerrilla gardening from its roots in 1970s Manhattan, and proffers advice on tactics, equipment and recruitment.'

Includes Stories from Space projects Weed Enclosure (pictured right) as well as a reference to Operation Ivy League

Click here to view publication website


Eclipses: Stories of disappearances and reappearances
By Kiril Bozhinov
Publishing by Beyond Art Productions, London, 2008
You can find 8 of my insect illustrations to accompany this beautifully written book of short stories - yay, thanks Kiril!







Worm gravestone
A tribute to all the worms whose teeny, squashed carcasses lay forgotten on our pavements...


Step-by-step guide to growing your own Moss Graffiti

Following the advice of many lovely and more expert people than myself, I have put together a more up-to-date and successful recipe than my previous one...
I have created a page of instructions on instructables.com, a website full of inventive ideas for DIY projects, well worth checking out:
 www.instructables.com

The project is also featured in
 CRAFT MAGAZINE: issue 04

Click skull to link to Moss Graffiti Page

CRAFTIVITY
By Tsia Carson the editor of Supernaturale.com
Published by Harper Collins, 2007

'It is a giant project based book with lots of great how tos, amazing fun to make projects for your home and super gift ideas. It is gigantic, GORGEOUS, and chock full of information. Want to know how to crochet a skull? Want to spin yarn or felt? Want to make a platform bed but have no woodworking skills? Want to make your own money? Well, this is the book for you.'

(Featuring my Moss Graffiti project tested and grown by graffiti artist Brett Webb)

Available to buy for £12.99 through Amazon

New drawing
Brick Wall, South Kensington



It took a while in the planning but, with a little help from some friends, in the form of London's infamous Spacehijackers, Operation: Ivy League was finally launched on a beautifully sunny March day in 2007.

Click for report


Keri Smith's Guerilla Art Kit shows how small artistic acts can start a revolution. Apart from being full of brill ideas (including SFS's moss graffiti, ahem) it's also beautifully illustrated too...


Click images to view interview in PIG mag, July 2005 (except it's in, erm, Italian) and reference to moss graffiti in Steelcase mag, 2006...