The invisible shed

Paul Caporn's The invisible shed, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2010.
Photo Karen Castle.
Today in Art
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The Studio Recycled

Good friend of Shedworking Simon Draper of Habitat for Artists has a marvellous new show with a strong shedworkingesque feel to it in New York. Here's how the New York Times describes it:

IN a small storefront on a commercial street here is a tiny artist’s studio, a plywood shed 6 feet by 6 feet by 9 feet. Its walls are adorned inside and out; some parts are painted with stripes, others paneled with posters and colorful drawings. The studio and the 240-square-foot storefront in which it was constructed have become a temporary project space for nearly 30 artists, a place where they can work independently and collaboratively (though not all at the same time) until the whole setup is disassembled at the end of March.... The shed is constructed from parts of previous Habitat sheds, its sections often layered with artwork, bearing witness to past artists’ projects. All of Habitat’s studios are built from reused and reclaimed materials to minimize the artists’ carbon footprints. Sustainability is often incorporated into the artwork, as well.

The Studio Recycled runs until March 31 in the Temporary Project Space, 1215 Park Street, Peekskill.
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B(huis): pipeworking

An intriguing shedlike atmosphere from Hoogte Twee Architects built of recycled plastic pipes.
Via inhabitat. Thanks to Andy for the alert.
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Outlandia: treehouse shedworking

Outlandia is an off-grid treehouse garden office, an artist studio, meeting pklace and fieldstation in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. It's the work of London Fieldworks and Malcolm Fraser Architects and apparently inspired by "childhood dens, wildlife hides and bothies, by forest outlaws and Japanese poetry platforms". The goal of Outlandia is to encourage links between creativity and the environment. Here's what Malcolm Fraser says about it:

Sitting half-way up the opposite side of the Glen to Ben Nevis, a visitor approaches Outlandia through the path we cut through the dense woods behind, descending out the musty dark of the trees into a big view which, from dark-to-light and framed by old, tall larches, opens-up across the Glen to the shoulder of the Ben.

The building itself sits out from a 45 degree slope: a treehouse, part-built out the trees cut down to form the site, entered across a bridge from the slope behind; a simple box, leaning-out into the view with big windows opening-up to it. Part of the building of it was a low-impact, eco-friendly use of material recovered from the site; part the opposite, high-impact and hairy landings of concrete, for the foundations, from a helicopter. Construction was part-joinery, part-forestry and part-mountain rescue, with a local contractor who nicely combined all three, and an unusual set of Risk Assessments.

Below is an interior shot of the structure, a trompe l'oeil library by artist Adam Dant in the style of the Scottish Enlightenment: visitors can write their own titles onto the spines of the books.

More photos here
Via dezeen
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Tent: shedworkers

Tent is a friendly design and marketing company working with smaller businesses to develop and strengthen their brands., particularly in the food and drink sector. They have recently become shedworkers and celebrated their new working lifestyle on Twitter. The website is a slightly tentworking atmosphere too.
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Silver jewellery garden studio

A lovely photo taken this morning by Paul Barton of Roomworks of a beautiful sunrise reflecting off the glass of a recent garden office installation for a client who wanted the studio to pursue her hobby creating beautiful silver jewellery. "I think they thought I was a bit mad when I knocked on the door so early in the morning but the photo was worth it," says Paul. "In our industry there seems to too much photoshop work or photorealistic illustrations and it can be very misleading. This is a real building that we've actually built - naturally beautiful."
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The Idler Academy

The Idler Academy is the latest in a long line of marvellous ideas from author and editor of The Idler magazine Tom Hodgkinson. Due to open next month at 81 Westbourne Park Road, London, The Idler Academy of Philosophy, Husbandry and Merriment (to give it its full name) is a bookshop, café and centre of learning founded by Tom and Victoria Hull who say "the intention is to bring back old school teaching subjects and styles. We want to combine the atmosphere of cultivated leisure that distinguished Plato’s Academy with the lively conviviality of the 18th century coffeehouse, and add a good dose of the 1950s grammar school." The goal is to provide education and entertainment on a range of practical and academic issues such as English grammar, Latin, calligraphy, gardening and embroidery. Or as they put it:

"We want to rediscover the pleasures both of creativity and the intellect, and help people to become self-reliant, capable and competent. That way lies liberty. Hence our motto, libertas per cultum, meaning “freedom through education”. And that word cultum means “education” not in the sense of instilling propaganda, but in the sense of “cultivation” or “culture”."

Tom has been a good friend to Shedworking from our inception and we will be helping him all we can with this marvellous new venture. Please do have a look around their site and sign up for their wide range of excellent talks, lectures and musical evenings.
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