The Free Painting Club

The Free Painting Club will take place on the 2nd of May in Berkeley Square at 12:00 noon. This club is open to all abilities. Anyone is free to come along. There is no charge. Sessions are free. Sessions will involve games intended to encourage confidence and stylistic freedom. Feel free to make suggestions about the content of sessions. The intention is to maintain quite a free structure.

Potato Cake

Irish poet Caitríona Devery has generously donated a poem to the HHC. Her latest work explores poetry as a means of illustrating a process. Though not vastly different from her usual work, Caitríona's latest writing uses humour as a bed for her ideas. "I like to write about what I know. This poem explores a process of memory, inference, guestimation and experimentation."

Potato Cake

100g flour
400g mashed potato
salt
50g grated mature cheddar cheese
tablespoon chopped parsley

Sticky Bindings

Sarah Fotheringay-Phipps and Barmy Carthwrite's latest creation "Sticky Bindings" is a tape bonanza of withering proportions. An avalanche of different coloured sticky tape has transformed the Honestly gallery into a giant psychedelic spiders lair.

Barmy, a good friend of the HHC, said of the exhibition in his typically ambiguous fashion; "with these current economic troubles boring the arse off everyone and his gran it falls to artists like us to waste a load of time and money watching gallery technicians stick a load of tape round the inside of a white box. We see the obvious Jim Lambie connection but our work is much better because we don't restrict ourselves to the floor."

The local church will be holding flower arranging classes in the gallery every Wednesday and Thursday at 11am.

Spike Island Open Studios

Spike Island doesn't seem to be letting any crunch get in the way of busy as usual. The ex-tea factory opened the doors to its studios on Friday night to a crowd of curious art enthusiasts. Spike is probably right to try and inspire some interest in art practice at this point in time for obvious reasons. They can't expect to weather the storm purely by maintaining their slick appearance and stock of organic apple juice. I'm not sure how their residents will fare but I imagine most won't be too worried...click here for full review

Science Science Science

Available to all HHC members: A science pamphlet presenting the significance of the percieved economic "meltdown" from a science point of view. Please send your name and address to us to recieve the pamphlet.