Behind the Cutter Inn

Sunday, 14 February 2010

Thursday, 11 February 2010

Thank you to Jane O'Sullivan, in Ireland, who included a picture of my book Behind the Cutter Inn on her beautiful blog http://janeosullivan.blogspot.com

Other great sites I've been meaning to link for ages:

Lucy May Schofield's Bibliotherapy artists' book library (BABL)
http://bibliotherapyartistsbooklibrary.blogspot.com/

&

Ed Boxall's new limited edition EP: What if We Went Walking, with a handmade lino-printed cover, and fold out concertina booklet.
http://edboxallmusic.wordpress.com/

Sunday, 3 January 2010

Zombies under Eastbourne Library- Thomas Truax video shoot

Monday, 28 December 2009

Christmas Day- Crabbes, ducks, swans and geese

Friday, 18 December 2009

Cat + snow + icicles + a big mess

Friday, 4 December 2009

Eric drawings for TIG exhibition

TIG (The Illustration Group) Christmas offering at McCarron's of Mercatoria- 68 Norman Road, St Leonards - Sarah Evans, Ed Boxall, Rachel Heavens, Janey Marriner, Celestina Froude and I.

Opening from 5pm Sunday 6th December- free drinks and nibbles.

The exhibition continues through December and into January (Tues- Sat).

A bit about me.....

I live and work by the sea, in a wonky old house in Hastings Old Town.

My house has been in turn, a warehouse, an ice house, various shops (including a grocers and a ladies’ dress shop) and an occasional gallery. It is tucked one street back from the seafront, directly behind the rooms where Rossetti stayed before his marriage to Lizzie Siddal in 1860. The former shop space is now my studio, which I open for exhibitions and events. The first, 'Wish You Were Here', September 2008, featured seven book artists, photographers and film-makers all presenting their work within a suitcase. The exhibition was opened by Iain Sinclair, with film-projections onto the back of The Cutter; a bibliotherapist on the stairs; a tombola; very special cakes and a book stall.

I graduated from BA (Hons.) fine art in 2000, and the graduate certificate in book arts in 2007. My work addresses collecting, hoarding, family history, the homemade, women's craft history, found objects, repetitive action in drawing and needlework; and clothing and objects as memory.

I'm currently working freelance organising small artists' book fairs, writing, curating exhibitions, researching and making new work. I am co-director of Creative Coast, a small arts company which manages the annual Coastal Currents Arts Festival in Hastings.

Contact me at lornacrabbe@gmail.com