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Cover Art: Epok and Piro June 20 June ISSUE 61

Alex Merry / Dan Rawlings / Emilie Sandy / The Outposted Project / United Colours of Rodborough Avenue Sam Sweeney / Fidel Cutstro / Polly Higgins / Lockdown Projects / Caroline Jaine / Stu Jotham / Abigail Fallis "When news of the Corona Virus started to break and subsequently going into ALEX lockdown I was struggling with intense anxiety. I get it pretty badly anyway but this was another level! Most of my problem was not being able to visualise the virus - an invisible MERRY killer seemed so much more scary. I started searching for images of Covid-19 online and was struck at how beautiful it was. Mandala like. Painting the virus was quite an odd experience but it felt so cathartic and it definitely helped me come to terms with what was happening. I used gold and bronze paints to make it as jewel-like as can be. It's now sitting on my mantlepiece as a totem to these times." alexmerryart.com GOOD EDITOR’S ON NOTE

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SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 03 DAN RAWLINGS

BY PAUL HARPER

Dan Rawlings’ workshop is on a small is the Ozymanean, decaying traces of he can, aided by open sources, such with building his profile. The work is business park near The Camp, on top branded packaging and the overgrown as YouTube, and by trial and error. He the thing. He seems quite at home in of the Cotswolds. The grungy workaday detritus of industrial processes. started a conventional art education, his distinctly unglamorous workshop, dilapidation of the park, masked If my description so far suggests but found that it didn’t suit his open wrestling with the switching mechanism from the outside world by a discreet something ugly and dystopian, I should approach to learning, so he left to on his traffic lights. Nevertheless, he screen of trees, seems anomalous hasten to say that Dan’s sculpture is pursue a variety of jobs, each of which has found a purchase in the artworld. in its agricultural setting. Turning off poetic, and that it is in some way deeply furnishing him with new tools and skills He has recently shown work in Paris, a country lane, you drive through a optimistic. Nature will out – it asserts that he incorporated into his creative Berlin and Los Angeles, and was metal gate, over broken concrete, past itself, enmeshing and interweaving practice: metalworking; print-making; awarded a large-scale commission mechanics and car sprayers, with work with the redundant man-made. I’m spray-painting. He is observant and for last years Affordable Art Fair in spilling out across forecourts, through reminded of the Forest of Dean, where disciplined in his approach to learning. Battersea Park, which involved a 5.4 oil-slicked puddles. At the very rear the immediate impression of rural His experience of skateboarding taught metre high grain silo. In March of this of the estate, in a row of grim, grey and romantic idyll belies the historical him the importance of repetition – of year he was included in a group show industrial units, you enter the workshop tensions between industrial and sylvan, doing things over and over again in partnership with The Big Issue, through an unpromising, non-descript man-made and natural, utopian and until they are not only perfected, but OurTypes at the Jealous Gallery East, door. Once inside, the first impression dystopian, human settlement and imprinted in the body. in London, which placed him alongside is of a narrow, dark cave, arranged forest. The history of mining and He is currently interested in colour, some of the biggest names in street art in chaotic profusion. The workshop dirty manufacturing is written into the and how it is used to communicate from around the world. is divided in two, with sculptor Paul landscape, greened over and partially meaning. He has been fascinated Dan says that he is trying to make a Grellier occupying one half, and Dan submerged in the forest – the place is by the way that colour is deployed point, but that he hasn’t yet worked the other. Squeezing past a large block a vast reminder that all things will pass. in commercial advertising – how a out what it is exactly. His art is an of marble waiting to be carved by Paul, Dan’s work carries a similar magical particular colour can instantly evoke unfolding engagement with the world. and an old van, its body delicately sense of reclamation, transformation a brand, or the way that green has He clearly has something to say in pierced by rust and, more surprisingly, and re-enchantment – he describes been co-opted to signal an ecological his work. It expresses a powerful and by the cut out shapes of brambles and his sculptures as ‘relics from an sensibility, even where none exists! highly pertinent narrative, but it is not ferns, every dimly-lit nook and cranny alternative future’. There is sympathy He is also interested in more abstract overtly didactic. He is caught up in the seems filled with materials and half and tenderness in his treatment of applications such as the specific processes of making and the aesthetics made works. The workshop suggests a these discarded and overlooked relics. ways that we respond to traffic lights. of his art as much as he is in critiquing rich mix of scrapyard and Bladerunner The work is both critical and wryly To this end, he is currently working global capitalism. His work holds our set – unidentifiable objects hang from humorous. on trying to re-programme a set of attention because it tells stories, and the ceiling, half dismantled archaic He is best known for his intricate and traffic lights for an upcoming gallery because it is beautiful. machinery, rust-rotted enamelled installation. Typically, this has led to signs, tools and sketched diagrams for precise hand-plasma cutting, often For news, updates and further applied to vehicles, signs and other an extensive process of research and examples of Dan’s work visit everyact. Heath Robinson constructions litter the experimentation and it is clear that Dan surfaces and accumulate in corners. atrophied cast offs of an age of waste, co.uk and often illuminated from within. relishes this kind of challenge. He talks The contingent squalor of the park and But his work is not static. He is an enthusiastically about working through the busy disorder of the workshop are autodidact who wants each new piece the particular set of problems that the PAUL HARPER HAS A WIDE RANGE OF entirely consistent with Dan’s cartoony, to be ‘something that I don’t know project has thrown up. EXPERIENCE OF WORKING IN THE ARTS. HE graphic, sci-fi vision, which evokes how to do yet.’ He is always seeking to Dan says that he doesn’t know what he WAS A FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF ALIAS ARTS AND IS VICE-CHAIR OF THE FOREST OF DEAN a post-post-industrial world in which extend his competence and technical is doing in the artworld and he seems the abundance of production and SCULPTURE TRUST. HE CURRENTLY COMBINES knowledge, and to expand his artistic like an outsider to that world in many WRITING, RESEARCH AND TEACHING WITH consumption that has characterised vocabulary. Driven by curiosity, he ways. He certainly doesn’t have the CONSULTANCY IN THE VISUAL ARTS AND our own times is long gone. What is left snaffles and soaks things up wherever air of a hustler, concerned primarily CRAFTS.

04 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 05 EMILIE SANDY

BY LORNA JENKINS

WE’RE ALL SPENDING MORE TIME AT HOME, POTTERING what makes them so special, a of the photographs and stories: snapshot of an extraordinary time. “With everyone’s permission, a bit AROUND IN OUR GARDENS AND ALLOTMENTS (IF WE’RE “I take two frames max, and it’s usually of a historical document and when LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THEM) AND WALKING AROUND the first frame. They’re not posing,” lockdown is done, have a local she says. exhibition perhaps.” THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE. IT’S THE COMBINATION Despite the sunny dispositions of She builds a connection with her OF THESE TWO PASTIMES THAT WAS THE GENESIS OF most of her portraits (both figuratively subjects, but hasn’t won over PHOTOGRAPHER EMILIE SANDY’S LATEST PROJECT – and literally, although Emilie says everyone: “I’ve tried to get a nun a she’ll shoot in most weathers) she is couple of times, it would be amazing 2 METRES APART. acutely aware of the poignant side of to get a photograph, but I didn’t want lockdown due to Coronavirus: “On one to push it too much! It’s like collecting “I didn’t go out looking for people,” Clash Magazine and other inspiring hand the pictures look like people are people. There was another one, an Emilie tells me over Zoom. “Originally sources that then enabled her to having a lovely time, outside in their elderly man dressed in his gardening I didn’t have a camera, we were on pursue a freelance career. Conceptual gardens, but then there’s the other side gear, sitting on a box, looking at his a bike ride at the end of our lane – interests led to her award winning final and it’s awful.” Siamese cats, but he didn’t want to do Bourne Lane turning into Thrupp Lane major project at the London College of “For me it’s the conversations and it as he was in his gardening gear and – and I saw this really lovely elderly Communication - where she received stories, and I think slowing down as said he needed a hair cut, he looked gentleman doing his gardening and her Masters degree in 2014. well, I have met neighbours I have great it would have been fantastic.” I thought, ‘oh I wish I had my camera’.” “I have been shooting for years but never seen before. I think that probably As well as working on various Emilie did eventually capture the I still found it a bit daunting asking applies to everyone. It just makes commercial commissions, Emilie lovely gentleman, and it became the people. Then I got the courage and you realise how much you’re rushing is a part time photography lecturer photograph of Theo – wearing a stripy I started approaching people,” Emilie, around, it’s a big reminder to slow in Bristol. One of the modules she jumper and hanging over his gate in who is also a mum of two, explains. down, be present and give time to teaches, a specialty of Emilie’s, is front of his cottage. “I am always doing “I don’t spend long with them, we people.” location photography. “If I see an that, seeing things I want to capture. have a brief conversation from afar, From builders and teachers to those empty space I think, ‘ooh just need a It is documentary photography, but I am really careful. I leave a piece of who are retired and little ones being person in there,’ I see everything as I am not a street photographer, when paper with my business card and home schooled, the varied nature of a set.” I do portraits normally I like to build a a description of the project saying: the stories are heartwarming to read. For further examples of Emilie's work rapport, get to know the person, and ‘thank you for participating, if you’d “We went for a walk and saw a woman including the accompanying stories this is far from it. When I first started like to add a comment on how the doing the gardening and the kids went of the 2 Metres Apart project visit photography when I was 18 I had my pandemic is effecting you or talk about to look at her chickens. There was a emiliesandy.com and follow her on Canon with me all the time, and this the moment of having your picture really lovely gypsy caravan and she instagram @emiliesandy for news and feels a bit like that,” Emilie explains. taken, please email me.’ I leave it said, ‘that’s where I do my writing’ updates. After graduating from Central Saint under a stone or in their wall.” and it turned out to be [author] Rachel Joyce. There are really creative people Martin’s in 2003; working as a Black The resulting photographs are a LORNA JENKINS IS AN EDITOR AND FREELANCE and White printer, assisting well known beautiful depiction of human life in around who are happy to participate JOURNALIST FROM STROUD. SHE ALSO PAINTS photographers, and working part-time Stroud, in all its varied, ramshackle and be part of the project,” Emilie AND SELLS HER WORK DURING STROUD at a music photography gallery in glory. The fast-paced nature of Emilie’s adds. OPEN STUDIOS AND IN MADE IN STROUD. INSTRAGRAM: @LORNAPAINTSANDWRITES Soho, it was Emilie’s collaboration with interaction with her subjects is perhaps Emilie has plans to create a book

06 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 07 BY SARAH EDMONDS > The idea is wonderfully simple. Essentially, an ordnance survey map, or ‘foldable canvas’ as Susie calls it, is posted from village to village collecting art, poetry and missives along the way. This ‘creative chain’ will reflect the impact that COVID19 has had THE on our lives through a collective creative expression. It’s a refreshingly traditional proposal in the sense of sending a good old fashioned letter, delivering OUTPOSTED something tangible at a time of real uncertainty. No rush, no timeframe – slow and steadily it travels from musician to poet to artist. There is no PROJECT shortage of creative’s in our valleys and the breadth of professional talent is staggering – from writers of operatic scores, world class poets, novelists, SUSIE HETHERINGTON AND JULIETTE illustrators, printmakers, photographers and respected artists all working at the highest levels. MORTON HAVE BEEN VERY INDUSTRIOUS The instructions read, ‘Pick a rectangle, anyone you IN LOCKDOWN. AS IF NOT BUSY ENOUGH like. Work directly onto the map...or glue your piece WITH THEIR YOUNG FAMILIES, FREELANCE on. It is an experiment and we hope you enjoy seeing CAREERS AND COMMITMENTS, THEY’VE how it turns out.’ SNUCK IN UNDER THE RADAR AND “As the crisis began to unfold, our geographical boundaries suddenly became more relevant than LAUNCHED A NEW ARTS INITIATIVE IN ever. The idea of not seeing people, not being able to THE STROUD VALLEYS. IT’S CALLED THE communicate in the normal way, all of us creating in OUTPOSTED PROJECT – A PARTICIPATORY solitude....this felt like a way to connect us all.” MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT FOR CREATIVES Susie Hetherington is a graphic designer by trade, but since moving to Amberley and having her young IN ISOLATION, STUCK IN THEIR OUTPOSTS. family she has built a textiles brand designing elegant

08 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL you don’t wanttomissa thing, keepaneyeon at performinginthelandscapewithherfiddle.If Musician andcomposerEmilyHallhashinted respond? Withjoyouseccentricity, I’msure! dimensional offerings –howwillGifford’s Circus from themusicianswhocannot partakeintwo An extralevelofinnovationmayberequired different story. end result, urbanversusrural tellingadistinctly itself willundoubtedlyhaveabearingonthe andlocationofthemap between. Thejourney between dynamic,delicateandeverythingin narrative andresults are expectedtoswing Contributions are notlimitedtoaCOVID19 period ofourlivesandartistsreactions toit. the potentialtooffer real insightintothisunique through asenseofcommunity. Butitalsohas to itwithanaltruismthatcanonlybeharnessed Outposted Project hasalightnessandpositivity end result generous andcheerful.To me,The involved isnottobeunderestimated, withthe and creative flair. The‘behindthescenes’work Hats off tothepairfortheirentrepreneurial spirit literally, sentitpacking! they havenurtured thistinyideaand,quite social enterprisetosupportruralwriters.Together a PaperNationsWriting Producer developinga prestigious PlacesofPoetryProject. Sheisalso poems aboutStroudwater Navigationwiththe Philharmonic Societyandafilmofoneher asound/wordsjournals, project withtheRoyal Her workincludesvariouspublicationsinliterary and describesherselfasawriter‘doer’. Waterland, Lake32intheCotswoldWater Park (Juliette) Mortoniscurrently PoetinResidenceat Friend andfellowcreative onthisjourney, JLM project.” by others–collaborationisattheheartofthis by newchallenges,“Mycreativity isoftendriven growing repertoire. Evidentlycuriousandunfazed output, addingtastefullinocutprintstoher her surroundings. Sheisprolific inhercreative natural designsinfluencedbythebeautyof theoutpostedproject) twitter (@outposted1)andfacebook/ media oninstagram(@theoutpostedproject ), com andfollowthetravellingmapsonsocial For furtherinformationvisittheoutpostedproject. Vickery andBrittWilloughby Dyer. Rush, AliceShepard Fidler, Alison JacquiStearn, JLM Morton,DaisyMurdoch, RodNelson,Philip LuciaLeyfield,HannahLinfoot, Emma Kernahan, John Holland,AdamHorovitz, Jeff Josephine, Heath, SusieHetherington,EunjuHitchcock-Yoo, Golding, NickGrellier, EmilyHall,PeteHayns,Zoe Emma Giacolne,Gifford’s Circus, Melanie Joff Elphick,FelicityEvverett, JonnyFluffypunk, Jenny Bowers,OonaghDavies,BeckyDellow, Artists involvedinclude:UtaBadauf,ChrisBingle, exhibition… andevenanaugmentedrealitytransient journeys, locations where themapshavemadetheir art. Oneideaisforatouringexhibitiontothe exhibition thatcouldincludemusic,filmand will beexhibitedtogetherasamultisensory The hopeisthatonreturning home,themaps well. in timefortheSiteFestivalStroud, allbeing April 2020andisexpectedbackinSeptember.... could happen.”Thefirstmapwaspostedon20th the initialrecipients, butafterthat....anything Beacons andsoonSouthLondon.We’ve selected are travellingaround Brighton-Hove,theBrecon 30 oftheparticipantswholivelocally. Newmaps are keepinganeyeonthatoneandweknowall experiment. TheStroud mapisthe‘pilot’sowe map mightgetlostorstuck,butthat’s partofthe already....“That’s thejoyofit.There isariskthe hesitantly, feelingpossessiveofthetravellingmap But whatifitgetslostorforgotten? Isuggest its progress. social mediachannelsandthewebsitetofollow SARAHEDMONDS-MARKETING.COM SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY - SARAH EDMONDS WORKS AS A MARKETER SUPPORTING —Adam Horovitz stealthy aslonging In thiswhitesilence,theygrow hills, theslowtangleofdirection. until itisseededwithsymbols, the wildgarlic’s wastingstench. but forthebirds’ skewedmusic This littleworldisbarren Do notfollowme.Notyet. marks outaflurryofconfusion drunk ontheechoofitsbeat under dyingash.Awoodpecker Here, timefoldsandrefolds itself under bluetothebird-sodden beyond Purgatory, homeward Walked intothewhitespaces I havefallenoff themap. OFF THEMAP for thesoundofyourvoice. No mapisperfect in impenetrablecode. solitudes ofsilence. GOODONPAPER.INFO | 09 GOODONPAPER.INFO | > THE UNITED COLOURS OF RODBOROUGH AVENUE

10 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL A PROJECT WHICH HAS BROUGHT MUCH NEEDED COLOUR INTO OUR LIVES OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS IS ONE BY THE RESIDENTS OF RODBOROUGH AVENUE

Initiated by Kate Dougherty and her daughter Cara the artful dwellers have been dressing up in the colours of the rainbow. Different colour each day. Each colour made into a different scene by each household. “It was fun, much needed silliness and a way to connect during a difficult period for everyone… My daughters also loved it!” says participant Oonagh Davies. “So the high” adds Kate Dougherty, “when most people were involved was probably yellow day. And what was lovely is some families obviously put a lot of time and effort into it and gathered hundreds of yellow objects and soft furnishings and foods and crazy stuff and involved the whole family." “It brought everyone together and everyone was getting involved,” adds Cara, “even pets and young children, teenagers. It was just a really nice way of bringing everyone together.” Here are just a few(!) of the colour scenes.

SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 11 Sam Sweeney has certainly caused a stir since he emerged on the folk scene a decade or so ago. He has packed a SAM lot in; nominated four times for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and winner of Folk Musician of the Year in 2015. SWEENEY He has also played and toured with folk supergroup Bellowhead as well as his own band Leveret and is now carving out an increasingly respected solo career. Given Sam resides in the Stroud area we thought it only right we catch up with him to find out more... BY TOM BERRY

HOW DID YOU FIRST COME INTO years and then got a voice message CONTACT WITH THE FIDDLE? on my phone from Jon while I was at school asking if it was OK if he left his My parents have been into folk music bagpipes in my parents’ greenhouse since their twenties so I was brought for me to pick up when I got home. I up listening to bands like Fairport had to learn the pipes in six weeks for Convention and Steeleye Span. I was the official reopening of the South Bank taken to a lot of gigs when I was kid Centre in 2007. In 2008, Giles Lewin and Dave Swarbrick was my first folk left the band and I was invited to take fiddle hero, so I guess he inspired me his place permanently, so I went from when I was just starting out, age 6. My school pretty much straight into touring primary school friend played the fiddle with a huge band. It was a mad time and one day after school I went to her and I toured with them until we split up house and her mum showed me how to in 2016. play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star… I never looked back! BELLOWHEAD WERE OBVIOUSLY A PHENOMENON ON THE FOLK WHAT APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT SCENE, PARTLY BECAUSE THEY THE INSTRUMENT? INCORPORATED CONTEMPORARY In truth it was my friends glittery stickers SOUND AND STAGECRAFT INTO on her fiddle that was exciting to begin THE FOLK CANNON. WHAT WAS with! I don’t really know why it appealed THAT EXPERIENCE LIKE FOR YOU? as an instrument. I suppose it was just It was a party, pretty much all the it had the name Richard S Howard and Violin and the new album! the aesthetic of the fast dance tunes time. We were, like most bands, like the date 1915. I took the fiddle home that I loved as a kid and the fiddle NOW WE HAVE UNEARTH REPEAT. a big dysfunctional family who had and my Dad was intrigued by the writing seemed like the right instrument to learn WHAT DID YOU HOPE TO ACHIEVE disagreements and issues along the inside it, so he set about researching them on. It’s so long ago I can’t really WITH THIS RECORD? way, but for the most part it was a wild Richard Howard. To cut a very long remember, but I know that I took to it ride. We toured Europe and Canada story short, we discovered that he was Over the last decade I have done a lot of very quickly and was teaching myself a few times and by the end we were a music hall performer from Leeds and projects that had very narrow goalposts tunes by ear, from my Dad’s record selling out 2000 seater venues all over that he had carved the pieces of my in terms of their repertoire selection. collection, right from the beginning. the UK - we even sold out the Royal fiddle in 1915 before joining the Duke Of Albums like The Full English and The HOW DID YOU DEVELOP AND Albert Hall for our 10th birthday gig. I Wellington’s Regiment and going off to Unfinished Violin had specific subject NURTURE YOUR TALENT? miss it hugely and hold on to the hope Flanders to fight. He sadly died at The matters or areas of repertoire to draw that one day we will play together again. Battle Of Messines and never returned upon. Having never considered making It’s very hard to remember much about We went out at the top, which has to be home to finish making the fiddle, so a solo album before The Unfinished the early years of playing but my parents better than going on for too long and it lay in pieces until Roger found the Violin, and having enjoyed the solo tell me I didn’t really practice what I was splitting up when nobody wanted to see pieces in a paper bag at an auction creating process so much, I decided supposed to. I just listened to albums us anymore. They were and will always about 80 years later. He then finished to see what would happen if I had no and learned all the tunes off them. The be my family because I joined them just putting it together and I was the first goalposts whatsoever and just created great thing about learning when you’re as I became an adult. As such, I hold person ever to play it in its finished form. music for music’s sake; to indulge so young is that nobody tells you that Bellowhead largely responsible for how myself in the naive joy of creating learning by ear is hard, so I just got It was an extraordinary thing to make I’ve turned out as a human! sound. So the new album is what my on with it and taught myself as many an album of music from the First World brain sounds like at the moment, I tunes as I could. I was having classical POST BELLOWHEAD YOUR War. Every time we gigged it, people suppose. There are traditional tunes, lessons at school all the way until I was NEXT PROJECT WAS MUCH would be deeply affected by the story tunes I wrote and tunes that are halfway eighteen, but I was never that good at MORE CONTEMPLATIVE - THE but also the music. It felt odd because in between, but there are definite the classical stuff… I started entering UNFINISHED VIOLIN ALBUM I had been used to people jumping harmonic references to the pop music folk competitions (a bizarre concept, I FOCUSED HEAVILY ON THE FIRST up and down and going crazy at I’m listening to right now. know!) when I was 10 and amazingly WORLD WAR, A PROJECT THAT Bellowhead gigs, so for people to come started to win them. As a result I got YOU GAVE FIVE YEARS OF YOUR to my gigs and be quiet, contemplative For me, the folk world is too consumed some gigs at big folk festivals playing LIFE TO. WHAT DID THE PROJECT or even cry, was quite profound! I by the provenance of where repertoire my red electric violin (haha!). It's hard to MEAN TO YOU ON BOTH MUSICAL guess the thing I still carry with me from comes from and this often over believe now as a solo performance at a AND PHILOSOPHICAL LEVELS? making that record is that music means shadows the enjoyment of the music so much to people. It connects us to people are creating, so for Unearth festival would really scare me, but aged I’m not a historian, by any stretch of the each other, to the past, the present and Repeat I wanted to create something 10, it wasn’t really an issue! imagination, and before unearthing the instrumental music, for me, can have as beautiful that requires the listener to HOW DID THE RELATIONSHIP WITH story of my 1915 violin, I wouldn’t have much or more power than song. There’s know absolutely nothing about the BELLOWHEAD COME ABOUT? said I had a particular interest in the First a great quote from Alex Vann of Spiro music in order to enjoy it. There’s no World War. My five year relationship with I met Jon Boden, one of Bellowhead's (one of favourite bands - check them context, no mission, theme or agenda. the First World War began totally by founders, at a Folkworks Summer out). He said: “Instrumental music is It’s just music that I love, made with chance when I went shopping for a new School when I was 16. He taught particularly rewarding and meaningful musicians I love. fiddle. I went to visit Roger Claridge, a me during that week and oddly he because you don’t know why you’re restorer and seller of violins in Oxford. IT’S REALLY INTERESTING asked me if I played any woodwind feeling emotional. You’ve reached a I tried all the fiddles in his shop but fell WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT THE instruments because he needed a dep place beyond words, the most amazing in love with one in particular. It was a RESTRICTIVENESS OF ‘FOLK’. for his new band who could play fiddle place that we all share” and I think this brand new instrument that Roger had DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF and bagpipes. I heard nothing for two sums how I feel about The Unfinished literally just finished making, but inside FIRST AND FOREMOST A 'FOLK'

12 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL MUSICIAN OR DO YOU SEEK TO November and December will happen MOVE BEYOND THE CONFINES (including the Stroud album launch OF THAT DESCRIPTION? on December 6th!) and the May 2020 dates have all been rescheduled to There’s no doubt I’m a ‘folk’ musician, May 2021. With a bit of luck, all those but in my experience the best folk STROUD gigs will happen and everyone will musicians are frequently amazing finally get to see the Unearth Repeat all round musicians. Folk music material in a real live gig! teaches you such fundamental PLAYLIST things about music - groove, rhythm, I am currently recording a ‘Live In basic harmony, melody and song Lockdown’ series with my band A thirty seven track, three hour Spotify playlist ft. construction, improvisation… (remotely of course!) to try and raise current (and previous) Stroud dwelling solo artists and some money to keep my band and Honestly, I think if children learned bands covering alt-folk, folk, ambient, classical, indie, traditional music alongside their usual sound engineer going over the coming ‘Western Classical’ lessons, we would months. There are a lot of artists electronica, pop, blues, swamp-blues, punk, post-punk, see a massive influx of highly musical, fundraising at the moment but it’s not rock, post-rock...Every genre under the sun… technically adept players emerging into as easy to fundraise if you’re a sound the world. It’s a bugbear of mine, but I engineer or band member, hence what I’m doing now. Do check out the think that the current music education SEARCH ON SPOTIFY FOR "GOOD ON PAPER - videos on my YouTube / FaceBook system lacks so much of what is key STROUD PLAYLIST" OR SCAN THE QR CODE to music making, which is both sad pages - I’m super proud of them! AT THE BOTTOM OF THE COLUMN and probably not for now! I guess I HOW ARE YOU FINDING THE see myself as an all round musician - I LOCKDOWN ON A PERSONAL have played in all kinds of line ups on LEVEL? 1. Low Chimes: Sleepwalking many different instruments, but it is 2. Katy J Pearson: Tonight I have had to completely restructure traditional music that trained me to be 3. Mesadorm: Easy able to be so adaptable (I hope…!) my work as I normally spend over half the year on the road in some capacity. 4. Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo: Nostalgia HOW DO YOU DIVIDE YOUR TIME It’s very bizarre being at home, not (Wallander version) AND ENERGY BETWEEN YOUR living out of a suitcase and not seeing OWN WORK AND THAT OF YOUR 5. Pete Roe: Counting Backwards Slowly any friends, but given I moved house There's A Shadow On the Sun BAND LEVERET? one week before lockdown started, 6. Jacob and Drinkwater: Ecto's Plasm It’s not too challenging really. Leveret there’s a lot of renovation to be done. 7. Orbury Common: tend to tour twice a year in the UK and I’m also teaching a few online lessons 8. Body Clocks: Still Life a day, which is something I’ve never once abroad every other year. I tend 9. Da Rico: Coyote to do one or two tours with my band a had the time to do and I’m really 10. Saul: Ping Pong year so it’s not all that hard to sort out enjoying that. our calendars. I used to tour with six I’m also enjoying doing some 11. Footshooter: Malaika bands, and that was really challenging, lockdown pop covers with fellow 12. Near Future: Ideal Home but it’s much easier nowadays. Stroud resident and good friend Rob 13. Emily Hall: Mantra Leveret isn’t a time consuming band. Harbron, and Glasgow based singer/ guitarist Jenn Butterworth. Last week 14. Clare Hammond: Impromptu No.3 in G-Flat Major, We don’t rehearse and because we Op.90, D 889 don’t play arrangements and every we released our version of You’re The gig is different, we are just playing Voice by John Farnham, and it has had 15. Diana Yukawa: Home tunes in the moment, bouncing ideas nearly 15,000 views! It’s great fun and 16. Simon McCorry: Whisperer worth checking out. We are trying to off each other - there is nothing really 17. Andrew Heath: A Break In the Clouds to prepare before an album or a tour. release a song every fortnight… It’s great because all we need to do I miss gigging hugely, but this situation 18. Phonsonic: 4th June to make an album or go on tour is to will make the next gig I do all the 19. Leveret: The Wounded Hazzar remember a few simple tunes. The sweeter. I cannot wait! 20. Patsy Gamble: Reflection rest is just listening and responding to HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED 21. Andy Nowak Trio: Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor each other. IN STROUD AND HOW DO YOU With my solo stuff, I tend to work THINK THIS AREA INFORMS YOUR 22. Milk Teeth: Better incredibly quickly. If I decide to WORK? 23. Blurt: The Fish Needs A Bike create something, I will work totally 24. The Red Propellers: Black Glove White Dove obsessively on it for a week or so until I’ve been in Stroud for about five it’s done, then I won’t make anything years and I really love living here. Until 25. Blancmange: Distant Storm else for a long time until I feel inspired a few months ago I was living in the 26. The Pirate Ship Quintet: Companion again. So when I am working on my Slad Valley and would frequently go (ft. Emily Barker, Blythe Pepino, Emily Hall and the own, it’s exhausting and very exciting, for walks in the woods leading up to Stroud Fringe Choir) Swift’s Hill and write little tunes there. but I don’t do it very often! Most of my 27. Ardyn: Universe time at the moment is spent teaching There’s a tune on my new record Stones Upon My Chest and doing up my new house! called Swift’s Hill (it’s the first tune in 28. Grasscourt: the track The Old Wagon Way), which I All My Swim OBVIOUSLY THE LIVE ASPECTS 29. Faeland: wrote on the hill, and Leveret recorded OF THE PROJECT ARE ON 30. Hattie Briggs: Lost and Found a tune of mine called Proud Grove, INDEFINITE HIATUS AT THE which is a little area of woodland in 31. Sam Sweeney: Maid of the Mill CURRENT TIME. WHAT ARE YOUR the Slad Valley. Where I live now, I can 32. Jaz Delorian: Rain On A Sunday PLANS WHEN LOCKDOWN IS see both Rodborough and Selsley 33. Thee Ones: 77a OVER? Common so I reckon there’ll be some 34. The Achievers: Careful Sabrina All my touring and recording work is more Stroud inspired tunes at some cancelled until at least October, but point! 35. Lensmen: Folded Heart more likely Spring / Summer 2021. Unearth Repeat is out now via Hudson 36. Russian Flying Squirrel: Let the People Say It’s a really difficult time for the arts, Records (hudsonrecords.co.uk), for 37. Felix Jupiter: Weatherman and nobody knows how or if we will news, updates and further info visit return to normal once this crisis is samsweeneymusic.com over. Obviously I cannot wait to tour SCAN WITH YOUR PHONE Unearth Repeat as we haven’t played CAMERA TO ACCESS > any of it live yet. That’s definitely the TOM BERRY IS A RECORD SHOP PROPRIETOR, DJ AND MINNIE RIPERTON OBSESSIVE. HE THE PLAYLIST! most challenging thing at the moment. CAN BE FOUND PROPPING UP THE COUNTER I haven't had four weeks without a gig AT SOUND RECORDS, 31 HIGH ST, STROUD, in the last ten years, let alone eight GL5 1AJ. months! Fingers crossed, the tour in

SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 13 One such musician and beatmaker is Fidel Cutstro. Pretty much everything I sample comes off vinyl, Since being introduced to Hip-Hop at a young but it's very rare if I get something off YouTube and if I impressionable age, he has always been about do it's an acapella I don’t have or some dialogue, the music. He moved from this area to the musical but generally I try to sample straight off the record hotspot of Brighton, where he quickly started straight into the MPC. making a name for himself with razor sharp scratch skills and deft mixing. Linking up with DJ Ideal DO YOU STILL DIG? WHAT ARE YOUR he formed The Unemployed Superheroes before HOTSPOTS? joining critically acclaimed scratch band Surgical Yeah digging for records is an integral part of how Cuts who went on to perform across the UK and I make music. That's where I get all my samples Europe. from. When I lived in Brighton I used to go out at He recently moved back to the five valleys honing least 3-4 times a week and I did that for at least his production skills and Dj-ing and has recently 22 years so I've built up a good library of samples. released his debut solo mixtape Talking In Drums. Now my responsibilities mean I can't go out like It's a great listen, obvious influences are DJ I used to, I don't need to be out as much. I like Shadow and J Dilla but it also clearly tells the story charity shops but they're not like they used to be, of Cutstro himself and his own musical journey. I a lot more people are on it, but I still can't walk recently caught up with him to find out more about past one without going in. Any bric a brak shops, its making… car boots, junk shops etc....Shop wise, Rarekind records in Brighton and of course Sound Records SO YOU MOVED TO STROUD FROM and Trading Post in Stroud. BRIGHTON ABOUT A YEAR AGO - HOW'S IT GOING? GIVEN THE TITLE OF THE ALBUM I'M GUESSING DRUMS ARE A KEY PASSION? Yeah that's right, everything's good! I consider HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED? myself lucky to be living here now, especially with all the madness which is currently going on. If I had Nah never played the drums, I stick to drum still been in Brighton I would have been stuck in a machines! Drums and breakbeats are the BY TOM BERRY 5th floor flat with two small children climbing the foundations of hip hop so it's just a reference walls, so I really feel for people in that situation right to that. now. It took a bit of adjusting to a slower pace of HOW DOES PRODUCTION DIFFER FROM life, but I'm originally from the area so it wasn't too DJING IN TERMS OF SATISFACTION? much of a readjustment. > With production you have total artistic control. You HOW'S LOCKDOWN BEEN SO FAR? IS IT AN FIDEL can make whatever you want, take your time, an OPPORTUNITY FOR CREATIVITY? empty palette. With DJing you sometimes have to It's been ok... obviously a bit weird. It's been play some bits you might not particularly want to, quite nice everything slowing down but I do feel but I guess DJing is more of instant satisfaction CUTSTRO and buzz. for people with businesses and for those whose Stroud is fundamentally livelihoods are threatened. I'm more concerned TELL ME ABOUT THE TRACK SUNDAY about what happens after lockdown, how the MORNING AT BHASVIC, IT SOUNDS economy will be affected and also hoping that it will a rural place. Certain INTRIGUING! not be an excuse for governments to implement types of music fascist behaviour and clamp downs on our civil There was a car boot that used to take place liberties. Creativity wise I've definitely had a spark every Sunday in the car park of Bhasvic College therefore naturally but I think that may be due to the fact I only just in Brighton. I went one morning, copped a few got my equipment and records out of storage after records and came home and made the track with thrive here – folk, about 8 months! I do think in the coming weeks the records I bought that day. I think that it was and months we will see and hear some great music made out of about 5 different records. singer-songwriters, born out of this situation… COLD MAXXXIN HAS A REAL JAZZ FEEL - IS ethereal electronica WHAT'S YOUR MOTIVATION FOR MAKING THIS A GENRE YOU HAVE AN AFFINITY FOR? MUSIC? and laid back reggae Yeah for real, scratching and jazz have a lot of are natural bedfellows To keep me sane! I just do it because I love it. similarities, a lot of improvisation, I like the freedom of jazz. of our sleepy but FOR THOSE WHO'VE NOT HEARD YOU, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC? WHAT’S NEXT?

beautiful town. Sample based instrumental music. I’ve just started working on an EP with DJ Foly, However, urban music Or the Bronx on angel dust. so that will be out at some point. Also I’m really looking forward to starting a radio show on TELL US ABOUT YOUR PROCESS FOR too can find a home. Gloucester 96.6FM alongside Big Tunes D, Dubbu MAKING A TRACK… and Scott Ski Love. It's gonna be called the Our own Block Party It's a bit like food. I go digging which is the farming, throwdown, so look out for that! chopping up samples which is the prep, making the and others have proved ANY PARTING WORDS OF WISDOM? beat is the cooking and finally people listening to it that there is a real is the eating. Don't be afraid to speak your voice and question authority… appetite in these WHAT KIT DO YOU USE? valleys for breaks, The MPC Controller and turntables are the main Talking In Drums is available hub of the lab. Everything gets started on there, now as a 14 track digital album hip hop, drum n’ bass then I track to Logic so I can mix and edit more, and limited edition cassette via add scratches etc. I also have a few old drum fidelcutstro.bandcamp.com and grime and a number machines which I use, space and echo... Everything goes through a desk. I like old hardware, I've made You can also catch Fidel of local artists are tracks just using the computer placing bits around Cutstro on the recently but I like the hands on approach of bashing the launched Stroud Lockdown Radio, an a soon to tapping into these pads. be released mixtape with Dubbu.

seams. HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT FINDING SAMPLES? TOM BERRY IS A RECORD SHOP PROPRIETOR, DJ AND MINNIE RIPERTON OBSESSIVE. HE CAN BE FOUND PROPPING UP THE COUNTER AT SOUND RECORDS

14 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL With venues closed and tours cancelled Bandcamp > recently launched an initiative to support artists

impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. On the 20th March ELVIS MCGONAGALL AND HIS they waived their revenue share of all sales resulting RESURRECTORS Gie It Laldy! in a massive 4.3million spent on music and merchandise RELEASE DATE: 09.08.18 helping musicians and labels during the lockdown. They An unholy marriage repeated this on the 1st May with 7.1million paid by of Elvis McGonagall's fans directly to artists, and will be doing the same on radical stand-up poetry and the Dead Plants' Friday 5th June and Friday 3rd July. Caledonian punkabilly beat. More fire and fury We’ve put together this guide for you to Stroud than Donald Trump could ever tweet with his tiny hands. dwelling musicians’ bandcamp pages and their recent elvismcgonagallandhisresurrectors. releases. It may be a long time before venues reopen bandcamp.com and tours are rescheduled, until then we can support music in different ways... ORBURY COMMON Building the Goddess Temple

RELEASE DATE: 22.12.19 The second EP by the EMILY HALL JACOB AND DRINKWATER Life Cycle collaborative project This Old River of Emlyn Bainbridge RELEASE DATE: 08.03.18 and Josh Day-Jones, 20.03.19 RELEASE DATE: Life Cycle is a song electronic artists united Five years since BANDCAMP STROUD 0N cycle on the rarely by a mutual curiosity the duo took to the explored theme of for supernatural fanaticism and British stage together for an motherhood with lyrics nostalgia. impromptu set at the by writer Toby Litt, orburycommon.bandcamp.com Glastonbury festival, performed by Oliver Tobias Ben Jacob and Coates (cello), Mara Carlyle (vocals) and Lukas Drinkwater offer their debut full PHONSONIC ARON ATTWOOD John Reid (piano), recorded live at the album following The Burning Low EP in Temporal Discoveries Outside Howard Assembly Room, Opera North, 2015 and Live at Hope Hall in 2016. Leeds. RELEASE DATE: 08.01.20 RELEASE DATE: 16.05.20 emilyhall.bandcamp.com New album by A collection of songs jacobanddrinkwater.bandcamp.com Alexander Caminada written and recorded exploring how time during lockdown by ANDREW HEATH FAELAND affects his sense of multi-instrumentalist A Trace of Phosphor All My Swim space, place and being Aron Attwood (The RELEASE DATE: 01.20.18 RELEASE DATE: 01.05.20 through electronic Achievers/Albino Written and recorded instruments, acoustic instruments, Tarantino) Faeland’s debut album, All My Swim, blends at Andrew’s home in electroacoustic and field recordings. aronattwood.bandcamp.com deep folk tradition with Stroud late last year phonsonic.bandcamp.com a modern approach A Trace of Phosphor BLANCMANGE to folk music. The features a beautiful Mindset album is performed soprano saxophone THE PIRATE SHIP QUINTET acoustically on guitars, contribution from Lydia Kenny on ‘Will Emitter RELEASE DATE: 05.06.20 vocals, eclectic percussion (water the Angels Still Hear Me?’ and ‘I Sleep RELEASE DATE: 29.03.19 Mindset is the third Above the Forest’. gourds, thimbles, candlesticks & even an Third release by the album to be written old CD rack!), cello, clarinet, double bass, andrewheath.bandcamp.com instrumental ensemble and co-produced by violin, accordion & Celtic harp. featuring a number of Neil Arthur with Benge collaborators including (Wrangler/John Foxx faeland.bandcamp.com LENSMEN Emily Hall and the And The Maths) at his Diving Bells EP Stroud Fringe Choir, Memetune studios FIDEL CUTSTRO RELEASE DATE: 07.05.19 - 04.10.19 further vocal performances from Blythe in Cornwall, following the critically Talking In Drums The Diving Bells EP by Pepino (Mesadorm) and Emily Barker and acclaimed Unfurnished Rooms in 2017 RELEASE DATE: 16.04.20 Lensmen features four saxophonist Andrew Hayes (Run Logan and Wanderlust a year later. Debut 14 track mixtape tracks each separately Run/Tezeta). blancmangemusic.bandcamp.com from local hip-hop DJ released throughout thepirateshipquintet.bandcamp.com and producer Fidel 2019. Formed in 2016 EMILY BARKER Cutstro available as a their explorations draw Shadow Box digital download and influences from post punk, new wave, art SAM SWEENEY limited edition high rock and psychedelia. Unearth Repeat RELEASE DATE: 02.11.19 grade cassette tape. lensmen.bandcamp.com RELEASE DATE: 27.03.20 A collection of live Unearth Repeat versions, covers and fidelcutstro.bandcamp.com celebrates a new other hard-to-find or SIMON MCCORRY direction, not only for previously unavailable Border land FIDEL CUTSTRO AND DUBBU Sam but for English Emily Barker tracks, The Happy Hour Mixtape RELEASE DATE: 14.06.19 music. His new band many found here for RELEASE DATE: 05.06.20 A rich combination are injecting into the first time on CD. Most tracks feature of field recordings, the English tradition three close friends that Emily recorded A special digital adept loop-based cello something that has never been heard and toured with for nine years: Gill download and cassette compositions and before. The music has the groove and Sandell, Jo Silverston and Anna Jenkins - mixtape put together atmospheric swagger of traditional English music with The Red Clay Halo. by local DJ's FIdel Cutstro and Dubbu improvisations that the huge sound, flare, energy and festival emilybarker.bandcamp.com released as a fundraiser explore the rich sonic possibilities of the spirit of bands coming out of the Celtic for Stroud's iconic music venue the cello through a host of treatments and and Scandinavian music scenes. Prince Albert. effects chains. samsweeney.bandcamp.com princealbertstroud.bandcamp.com simonmccorry.bandcamp.com

SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 15 P OLLY HIGGINS: DARE TO BE GREAT

“It was about fifteen years ago when she had a kind of epiphany,” Jojo Mehta, co-founder of Stop Ecocide, reflects on her friend and fellow campaigner Polly Higgins, whose book Dare To Be Great was published in April.

BY JUDITH GUNN

So what was the epiphany? Polly was complementary - Jojo helped Polly with and Polly had insisted that an Alice in Wonderland communications and Polly offered legal advice to party be held after her death. “She had just won a case for a really difficult client on support activism. a trial that had been going for a couple of years. She Dare to be Great is Polly Higgins’ personal account was in the Royal Courts of Justice and she looked over In 2017 that working relationship became an of her journey and work to stop ecocide. “So many London and thought - ‘it’s not just my client that needs organisation and Ecological Defence Integrity was people feel disempowered and Polly was all about protecting; it’s the earth, the earth is in need of a good co-founded by the two women. This began a chain empowerment. It’s the closest thing you will get to lawyer.’” With that Polly Higgins turned her back on her of events that has produced the Earth Protectors having a conversation with her, as opposed to reading career as a barrister and set her mind to protecting her movement and the rebranding of the public campaign her legal treatise.” Originally titled ‘I Dare You to be new client. Her initial research took her to the Rights of from Mission Life Force to Stop Ecocide. “We realised Great’ it is an inspiration and a call to action for those Nature movement and the Universal Declaration of the it needed to do exactly what it said on the tin and who want to protect the planet. Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia in 2010. “But” says the tag line was ‘change the law’.” That decision was Dare To Be Great is available Jojo “what she realised fairly quickly is that rights are made at Polly’s last work meeting in the garden of her now (featuring a cover by award only any use if you have corresponding responsibilities home last year. Jojo recalls “It was the most bonkers winning local filmmaker, artist and and that is what criminal law provides. It’s all very well two weeks of my life – I was looking after Polly, running illustrator Joe Magee) via Flint Books to have a right to life but unless murder is a crime your the campaign because she was ill and supervising a (flintbooks.co.uk) - the new imprint by right to life isn't worth an awful lot.” total rebrand all at the same time. Just having the word Gloucestershire based publisher the ‘ecocide’ front and centre made a huge difference. We Ecocide was not a new concept. It was originally History Press (thehistorypress.co.uk). got our first thousand placards printed just in time for intended to be in the Rome Statute, the governing Due to the pandemic the launch the first rebellion (Extinction Rebellion) and they were document for the International Criminal Court (ICC) took place online featuring contributors from the book, everywhere”. The rebellion kicked off with an ‘ecocide’ established in 1998. It is the top legal document in including: Marianne Williamson, US ex-Presidential protest on the South Bank which saw the words ‘For the world, it lists ‘crimes of most serious concern candidate, who wrote the Foreword; Jojo Mehta, who Polly’ spray-painted on the side of the Shell Building. for humanity’, sometimes known as ‘crimes against wrote the introduction; Dr Jane Goodall DBE and peace’. But ecocide was the missing crime from Polly saw it in the last week of her life. “She was Michael Mansfield QC, who wrote Afterwords. Other the Rome Statute, says Jojo. “It literally became the absolutely thrilled,” says Jojo. “She watched the video endorsers of the book include: Caroline Lucas, Charles mission of Polly’s life to reinstate that missing crime.” again and again... It was amazing for Polly because Eisenstein, George Monbiot, Gail Bradbrook, Roz it was her last week and she was in hospital and she Savage and Simon McBurney. A live Twitter chat also In 2010 Polly submitted a definition of ecocide to the was watching it all on Facebook and on the internet took place on the day after Earth Day, on April 23rd, UN – a definition, says Jojo “that is good enough for and for the first time after a decade of work she was to mark Polly’s anniversary and discuss key themes the Pope!” (In November last year Pope Francis called seeing her work on the streets… so there was actually arising from the book. for recognition of ecocide crime, using Polly’s wording.) a groundswell of people saying ‘Stop Ecocide’. The In 2013, Polly came to the first SEED Festival at For further info on Stop Ecocide visit stopecocide.earth whole conversation around ecocide has expanded Hawkwood College and together with her husband Ian and pollyhiggins.com globally since then – two states have even officially Lawrie QC made the move to Stroud. called for it to be recognised as a crime. She would JUDITH GUNN IS A FRUSTRATED SCREENWRITER AND THE “Polly wasn’t a kind of ‘on the street demo’ person at have been so excited to see that.” AUTHOR OF DOSTOYEVSKY: A LIFE OF CONTRADICTION. SHE HAS all, and in fact the first two years we worked together Polly and Jojo were also great friends. “She was a real TWO STORIES IN THE LATEST EDITION OF STROUD SHORT STORIES we worked very much in parallel”. Jojo’s early activism AND IS THE CREATOR OF ONLINE EDUCATIONAL CONTENT AND maverick and I miss that,” says Jojo. They both shared included the anti-fracking movement and opposing BOOKS. SHE DOES THIS WHILE TUTORING STUDENTS ONLINE AND a love of fancy dress and ran parties for supporters, the incinerator and her working relationship with WRITING THE GREAT NOVEL. JUDITHGUNN.COM

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A SELECTION OF BOOKS with a uniquely British flavour, blended TOM PERCIVAL: DREAM TEAM - that involves certain ‘rules’. Beneath with extraordinary acts from all over the ATTACK OF THE HEEBIE JEEBIES the surface trouble is brewing in the PUBLISHED BY STROUD world. Their restaurant Circus Sauce Published: 02.04.20 shape of Ada. Whimsical, free spirited DWELLING AUTHORS OVER is headed by chef Ols Halas and seats Publisher: Macmillan and beholden to no-one, she represents circus goers in a beautifully decorated the freedom Emily’s been striving for, THE LAST FEW MONTHS tent on site. They offer a new menu and the escape that Ryan didn’t know FEATURING THRILLERS, every week and use seasonal and he wanted. As they are separately, and local produce from the surrounding secretly, drawn to her, things start to COOK BOOKS AND area. They serve freshly baked bread, unravel. The ‘rules’ are still the rules, to CHILDREN’S STORIES... roast chicken and truffle suet pudding, be taken seriously, not to be broken…. smoked ham hock in pastry, dressed This is a wonderfully compelling portrait crab with samphire, queen of puddings, of a marriage by a striking new talent. mounds of Eton mess, and lots more, EVE COY: THE HUFFALOTS with some guests returning several Published: 07.05.20 times in the summer to experience a KATE RIORDAN: THE HEATWAVE Published: 23.04.20 Publisher: Andersen Press new menu within familiar surroundings. Publisher: Penguin This extraordinary book is a celebration of the food that brings the circus and its audience together, alongside the story of the circus itself and its vibrant community. Full of colour, personalities, stories and images of the circus and its slow journey through the English summer countryside, the book's 100 recipes are nothing but delicious, joyful and hearty. Meet the Dream Team! Turning POLLY HIGGINS: DARE TO BE GREAT nightmares into incredible adventures! Published: 17.04.20 Erika's had a bad day. But going Publisher: Flint to sleep upset means bad dreams. She finds herself stranded in the When Mum wakes up her Huffalots, Dreamscape along with a mob of nothing is right they don’t like their hungry Heebie Jeebies - and to make clothes, their breakfast is yucky and matters worse, she's being hunted by a they just don't like each other. When terrifying Angermare! Enter the Dream one of them trips over, the other offers Team! Can they help Erika overcome a hug and they magically transform her worries and get home, or will she be into Huffalittles, then Lovealittles, and trapped forever? Attack of the Heebie Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was finally, with a big cuddle they become Jeebies is the first in a fun and engaging smart. Elodie was troubled. Elodie Lovealots. But it's been a long day and colour illustrated series, exploring is dead. Sylvie hasn't been back to Mum is now grumpy and tired. Good anxiety in children through action and her crumbling French family home in thing the Lovealots know exactly what adventure. to do...A gorgeous picture book that years. Not since the death of her eldest explores how moods change throughout daughter Elodie. Every corner of the old the day, and what we can do to help HANNAH PERSAUD: THE CODES OF house feels haunted by memories of others feel better. LOVE her - memories she has tried to forget. Published: 05.03.20 But as temperatures rise, and forest fires Publisher: Muswell Press rage through the French countryside, NELL GIFFORD AND OLS HALAS: a long-buried family secret is about GIFFORD CIRCUS COOKBOOK to come to light. Because there's Published: 26.03.20 something Sylvie's been hiding about Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing what really happened to Elodie that summer. Available now on kindle and in This is a book unlike any other. It does paperback on the 3rd September. not tell you what you must do, it does not set out a guide for the 10 definitive steps to becoming great by next Thursday. Dare To Be Great is both a playful, inspirational conversation and a heartfelt, lived call, daring each one of us and our society as a whole to SHOP LOCAL! become truly great. Celebrated Earth lawyer Polly Higgins was a luminary in the environmental justice movement as MANY OF THE BOOKS CAN BE she worked to Stop Ecocide across the ORDERED AND DELIVERED THROUGH globe. She was a beacon for how to live OUR LOCAL BOOKSHOPS! CONTACT the brave, bold lives that, at our best, STROUD BOOKSHOP ON 01453 756646 we imagine for ourselves. This book OR YELLOW LIGHTED BOOKSHOP IN shares insights from her own remarkable NAILSWORTH VIA THEIR WEBSITE journey, inspiring us to recognise and YELLOWLIGHTEDBOOKSHOP.CO.UK FOR FURTHER INFO. Giffords Circus has been touring the step into a greatness within - that is not Ryan and Emily appear to have it all, south of England every summer since about grandiosity but something far successful jobs, a beautiful house and 2000. It is a traditional village circus more exciting: aligning with our unique the secret to a happy marriage. A secret purpose in service of a better world.

SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 17 LOCKDOWN PROJECTS LOCKDOWN PROJECTS LOCKDOWN PROJECTS LOCKDOWN > PROJECTS ASLOCKDOWN CAN BE EXPECTED OF AMPLIFY STROUD THIS COMMUNITY DRIVEN AND A new media platform PROJECTS seeking people and community groups from CREATIVE TOWN OF OURS across the Stroud district linking these into national and international trends. “It was THERE HAS BEEN NUMEROUS started by a small group of young people who’d worked extensively on interviewing INITIATIVES AND PROJECTS people for the Stroud Labour election campaign. We have since welcomed several new people on board with a range of skills and always welcome more people SET UP OVER THE PAST FEW and contributors.” Jamie O’Dell. Amplify Stroud launched early in light of Covid-19 in order to bring out informational videos on local community mutual MONTHS SUPPORTING AND aid networks and have since expanded into producing written articles on issues ranging from local debates on HELPING PEOPLE TO GET PPE to Stroud’s links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade. THROUGH THESE UNCERTAIN amplifystroud.com CITIZENS ONLINE TIMES AND PROVIDING A Citizens Online is a digital skills and inclusion charity based in Stroud. Distancing MUCH NEEDED SENSE OF measures to stop the spread of the virus have made the value of internet access clear. TOGETHERNESS. But not everyone is online, or has the skills to make the most of the internet. “We have made a digital exclusion risk map (citizensonline. TO CELEBRATE WE HAVE PUT org.uk/gp-map) to help focus support. We're also calling on the government to make the internet free TOGETHER A GUIDE TO SOME during the Coronavirus pandemic. Please join one of our free weekly online sessions to learn more about how you can get involved!” James Beecher.

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18 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL THE COVID COVERS FIDEL CUTSTRO AND DUBBU An online project by Soozy Happy Hour Mixtape Roberts, where you are invited to dedicate a song A throwback to the days to someone who deserves a when a TDK C90 and a shout-out during lockdown ghetto blaster were all you and social-distancing. “The needed to have a party! project developed out of The days of the stop/start a series of self-portraits I recording of Top of The created in 2017 that had Pops off the radio on a songs as titles and the project invites you to create Sunday evening and placing your own song cover using yourself, household sellotape over the tape ends to re-record the following week….“We have created members and objects.” The dedications will be DEEPBED RADIO played on BBC Radio Gloucestershire and a special this exclusive Prince Albert mixtape as a nod to those one-off show on Deepbed Radio. Song covers and A new project nostalgic times and their own love of this musical dedications will be exhibited on the website gallery >led by artists and format, but more importantly it’s been created as and the top ten images will be printed, framed and supported by a Thank You to the wonderful work that the Prince presented to GRH as a thank you for their amazing artists that has Albert have done over the last decade (and more) for efforts. Soozie also hopes to hold a concert in self set the task of the flourishing music scene in Stroud.”explains Neil Gloucester when things return to normal. Get involved! profiling DJs and ‘Dubbu’ Wilson. The mix will be available from 5th June audio projects with as a very limited cassette run and download via the thecovidcovers.com roots or threads soon to be launched Prince Albert Bandcamp page, to artist led hubs with all proceeds going directly to the pub to help them CREATIVE NEIGHBOURHOOD in the Stroud and to continue through these difficult times. Gloucester area. “At Creative Neighbourhood SVA’s co-founder princealbertstroud.bandcamp.com we are asking Stroud locals Neil Walker to create maps of life during explains: “Over the last couple of years there has been THE GOOD GRIEF PROJECT lockdown. Contributions a relationship building between artists based and can take any form you like; working in Gloucester and artists based and working You Are Not Alone In This… sketches, graphical images, in Stroud, many artists are living in Bristol or London An exciting new online collages, written words or any and elsewhere but still have strong connections collection of photographs all other media you can think here. Regular jam sessions and events at SVA’s John taken by the bereaved as a of. Perhaps they describe Street studios and a fairly new project in Gloucester response to our grief during your daily walk, the journey from bed to chair, the new called Rooftop Festival have been a catalyst in the Covid-19. Started by The landmarks in your life, places you miss, or that you collaborative process. Last year's Rooftop saw a Good Grief Project a Stroud wish that you could go.” explains Dan Farmer, “Our number of collaborations in a full night of performances based charity, known for aim is to collate these to create a new map of Stroud from Gloucester and Stroud artists to launch the their creative approach to based on the personal experiences of the community festival, it was phenomenal, the evening was full of grief, the idea is designed during this period of lock down.” Email your potential to establish and strengthen an emerging to be a ‘caring circle’ of images that will help the contributions to [email protected] by network.” Deepbed is an online station but it's also a bereaved express difficult emotions during a time of the 30th June 2020 for inclusion in the project. meeting place for an emerging artists community with enforced isolation. “We’ve had to cancel so many a common interest in each other's creativity. It’s raw face to face events” says project founder Jane Harris, creativeneighbourhood.co.uk and unpolished and informative and intriguing. Join the “including our much valued Active Grief Weekend Deepbed Family… retreats, this is our way of staying connected with CROWN AND SCEPTRE our community.” Photos can be posted to Instagram deepbedradio.org Community Shop using #youarenotaloneinthis or to the Facebook page facebook.com/groups/goodgriefphotoproject “We had an inkling, DISCONATURE the week before the thegoodgriefproject.co.uk pubs were closed What happens down, that it was when you cross going to happen, a comedic Elvis THE LONG TABLE so we had already impersonator and Feeding the 5000 brought the big musician with a In response to the Covid-19 fridge into the pub nature-nerd artist crisis, The Long Table, and decided we and passionate supported by the Diocese were going to open dancer? The of Gloucester, developed a small shop for our answer? a project to feed people community here on DiscoNature! From short video sketches to live shows, in need. After launching in Horns Road.” says landlord Rodda Thomas. Initially it DiscoNature have entertained and inspired all ages Stroud, they partnered with was just going to be bread milk and eggs (and toilet during lockdown with their unique take on the world community kitchens across paper of course!) but it soon grew as neighbours asked of Science and Nature. With her expertise gained the county and together they the pub to get different items.Their stocks of flour through working at the Natural History Museum and delivered over 10,000 meals in the first 38 days. The and yeast have helped the good folk of Horns Road also running a local nature group Wild Things, Kaoru Long Table are also working with food banks to reduce improve their baking skills. Obviously they are also has developed her unique Science and Art approach the strain on the system, by supplying customers selling ale, cider and beer to take away, and offering to connect people to nature. Combine this with with free regular deliveries of pre-cooked meals and different take away meals on a daily basis Including a Joe’s original and eclectic dance music and quick- have installed ready stocked freezers for NHS staff in sunday Lunch, while also doing deliveries to some of fire comedy skits and you have an ever expanding Gloucester and Cheltenham hospitals.“We’ve been their locked down neighbours. “We are hoping to be DiscoNature universe waiting to be explored on overwhelmed by people’s generosity in helping us to able to reopen soon, albeit on a much reduced scale Youtube and beyond…. feed our community. The fact that we have provided to allow for social distancing.” The current opening well over 5,000 meals already is mind boggling and disconature.co.uk hours for the Crown and Sceptre Community Shop we’re only just getting started. We would like to say a are : Monday to Friday 3 - 6pm, Saturday 2-6pm and massive thank you to everyone who has helped make Sunday 2 - 5pm. it possible, especially the hero kitchens that have come on board.” co-founder Tom Herbert. facebook.com/HatandStick thelongtableonline.com >

SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 19 "Meet Steph, a British nurse who flew from her CAROLINE adopted home in Canada to resume working in the NHS at the John Radcliffe (Oxford University JAINE Hospitals) as Staff Nurse at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She's my hero. And also my sister. I'm very proud of her. During lockdown I volunteered to be part of the Portraits of NHS Heroes initiative started by artist Tom Croft. I have done several portraits, but Steph was the first".

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20 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL PAPER JUNGLE Three Suns Paper Jungle is a small scale theatre company, delivering intimate and RED PHONE BOX ART beautifully crafted puppetry Summer Street Dreams In A Phone Box performances to rural audiences. “Like many The red phone box on others, we've been pretty Summer Street in Stroud > quiet recently. There’s no is to become a temporary way around it, theatre relies art gallery, viewable from the outside. Artist/curator LOSS <<>> GAIN on engagement with the public, so for now we have to hold tight. But, we're working hard to find ways Sarah Dixon says “I started Isolation Room to deliver inspiring creative work.” explains Isabelle painting with my daughter Isolation Room is Lyster, “and we need your support! We are currently and we put some pictures a ‘deep listening’ raising funds to create an illustrated storybook of our in the phone box for fun. YouTube channel latest show Three Suns, that can be delivered to kids I thought we could have a popup art show with presenting exclusive during isolation, make creative workshops accessible neighbours contributing work. So I'm asking Summer binaural ‘headphone to families online, providing content for children being Street residents ‘What Do You Dream Of?’ and inviting surround’ mixes. homeschooled and help support our future tour of people to create images for the small glass panels of The idea is an Three Suns…” Visit the website for further info! the phone box.” The show will launch on 31 May at expansion of the 3pm. Visitors will be able to take turns walking around work band manager paperjungle.org the box and enjoying the art. Supported by Create John Best and sound designer David Sheppard had Gloucestershire and Strike A Light with Cheltenham been doing in the Goods Shed under the banner PLAYCIRCLE Festivals. Loss<<>>Gain, where remote live shows were Fisherwoman facebook.com/redphoneboxart presented in full surround sound using the venue’s incredible d&b Soundscape system. Isolation Room Fisherwoman is a musical kicked off with a surround mix of Jónsi & Alex Somers audiobook, the first of a series EMILIE SANDY Sydney Opera House show with full orchestra and produced by Early Years Arts 2 Metres Apart choir, before inviting submissions from Icelandic singer- Collective Playcircle. It’s a To keep her creativity songwriter JFDR and a version of John Luther Adams gender-switched retelling of flowing during Lockdown; work for 16 cellos, as played by Oliver Coates. Future a Grimm classic, so relevant photographer, Emilie Sandy, presentations include Anna Calvi, Mount Kimbie and to our modern times, when has continued taking portraits Warp newcomers Jockstrap. we are ever more conscious of taking too much from (adhering to the Government sgr.is/binaural the Earth and the Ocean. “The production is based guidelines of course!) and on the sold-out show we developed last year for the collecting people’s stories on how the pandemic has THE MUSIC WORKS Nailsworth Festival, and was created entirely remotely using an online workstation. The result is completely affected their lives; with the Every Rainbow Drawn captivating, partly because of all the time and love hope in creating a visual historic document of this The Music Works is a that’s gone into it, with all of us working alone but unique time, and our friendly community. “2 Metres registered music charity that together to create this beautiful thing…” Apart has allowed me to connect with neighbours, transforms young people’s and strangers, in a way that we would never have lives through music and playcircle.co.uk/the-fisherwoman connected before. With 43 portraits and individual helps them pursue their stories so far, I am continuing with the project with the dreams and aspirations. THE PRINCE ALBERT idea of holding a local exhibition of all the prints, and Their music leaders work everyone to attend - when that will be we will have to The Prince Albert family with young people to engage see…” are cooking pizzas every them through music and Friday and Saturday evening emiliesandy.com creativity, which builds their confidence, self-belief for pizza lovers and those and motivation.Every Rainbow Drawn is an original missing their Albert fix, with song written and performed by young people across SINGING MAMAS CHOIR pre-orders taken from midday Gloucestershire. It's a way of saying ‘thank you’ to Wednesday each week. Take Apart Together doctors, nurses, supermarket workers and teachers away drinks are available, In support of Mental Health – and to raise money for the NHS. The entire piece perfect for picking up on the Awareness Week (18th – 24th was written, performed and recorded by the children way home after a walk, or to take for a brief picnic May), Singing Mamas Choir and young people you see in the video, with a bit of on the common ( take your rubbish home after, and Network gave the gift of production help from the Music Works along the way… stay safe!) ”We are still collecting for Stroud District a song with the release of themusicworks.org.uk Food Bank with a hamper situated at the back door Apart Together, written by - food and help is needed more than ever at our local Stroud based musician Asha branch.” adds Lotte Lyster, “A crowdfunder is running McCarthy. Apart Together is THE OUTPOSTED PROJECT in conjunction with the Music Venue Trust’s Save Our a song to help people feel The Outposted Project is led Venues campaign - supporting the 556 venues that more connected to each other during the lockdown. by artist and textile designer support and promote music in the smaller venues Asha, choir leader and mother of a toddler said “I felt Susie Hetherington and poet around the country. Live broadcasts are planned, and very anxious at the beginning of the lock down; I wrote JLM Morton. They have artists, DJs and musicians are helping us produce Apart Together hoping people would feel comforted initiated a creative chain by exciting items for the faithful during lockdown…” and less alone”. The song is a collaboration between sending an Ordnance Survey choir leaders from the Singing Mamas Choir Network, map of the Five Valleys theprincealbertstroud.co.uk the women are based all over England. The parts were to thirty professional and recorded separately and then produced by Rachel emerging writers, artists, Holmes (Oxfordshire) to create the finished piece. performers and makers who – one by one - will be pinning a piece of their work to the map before posting singingmamaschoir.com it on to the next artist. The result will be a collective artwork that speaks to our experiences of lockdown… theoutpostedproject.com >

SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 21 STROUD CORONAVIRUS COMMUNITY RESPONSE Nadin Hadi moved to STUDIO 18 Stroud in early 2020. By Art Shelter Project mid-March she was setting up a community network Studio18 has been to help Stroud District face commissioned by the challenges of Covid-19. Brimscombe and Thrupp > A dedicated team including Parish council to create James Beecher, Natasha art installations in the bus Wilson, Nick Turner and shelters along London STAND + STARE Sarah Dixon among others gathered to support the road this summer. “This is a fantastic opportunity for Tangible Memories effort. “We continue to provide daily news updates, Stroud based creatives of The Tangible Memories App a Facebook group for offers and requests, and thorough fact-checking.” adds Nadin Hadi, “Stroud varying disciplines to create an engaging public art by Stand + Stare allows you piece to inspire and express the lively and energetic to make your own print- Coronavirus Community Response is here for everyone. The community is evolving as a resilience lovely vibes that Stroud has to offer. Ten bus shelters on-demand books with are to be transformed into art installations forming interactive sound recordings. network, navigating local and global change together.” As well as the website the group is on facebook a trail along London road to feed creatively into the “We originally designed it Brimscombe community. Installations will act as a way with older people in mind, (facebook.com/stroudcoronaupdates) and twitter (@ stroudcorona). of connecting people and strengthening community as a quick and easy way for ties.”Zachary Walsh. The project should be up and them to collate memories. The neighbournetworks.uk running July/August with participating young artists App is a way to forge connections and share stories already involved from Thrupp yr6 primary school. with loved ones, so it seemed logical to adapt it for people to use during lockdown, when so many are STROUD FILM FESTIVAL facebook.com/Studio18Stroud experiencing isolation and separation from family and When it suddenly ended friends.” Barney Heywood. Currently it is available on in mid-March, Stroud Film THE THUNDER MUTTERS iPad, but they are working on a new update for Android Festival left a set of cancelled tablets and phones. events, many fully sold The Thunder Mutters out. Then the festival went podcast is the logical standandstare.com/tangible-memories-app online. “First, we ran two extension of the live challenges where everyone shows Adam Horovitz STROUD BREWERY was invited to make 60 and Becky Dellow second films,” says Andy have been presenting The Long Table Community Pale Ale Freedman, one of the coordinators, “all the films for the last six years, “The Coronavirus has hit entered are on the website and there will be more film blending poetry and the hospitality industry hard, making opportunities.” Live events followed, one with fiddle music. “We which as we all know has film makers in the Democratic Republic of Congo! In began thinking about it just before lockdown, as a knock-on effect far along another live event, Director Marc Jobst invited the Becky had discovered that John Clare was a fiddle the supply chain.” explains player as well as a poet during her PhD research into founder and Managing audience to be part of the creative journey of HOME a tune books,” says Adam. “Lockdown made it happen Director Greg Pilley, “Here film-in-the-making. More free events with filmmakers all the faster, and now we’re presenting fortnightly at the brewery, over the last are on the way... shows, performing Clare’s Shepherd’s Calendar once few months we had been a month and other poets from the era in between, all brewing like crazy to fulfil orders for what would stroudfilmfestival.org interwoven with music from the time.” The Thunder have been a very busy period. However, COVID 19 Mutters is available on all good podcasting platforms changed that plan and we were left with a cool store STROUD LOCKDOWN RADIO for subscription. full of cask and keg beer ready to go out to our Stroud Lockdown Radio is customers, which they no longer required, and so we facebook.com/thethundermutters a local live and interactive wanted to think creatively and not let the product go ‘pirate radio meets chatroom’. to waste. We had been particularly struck by the work A DJ collective playing VERITY RIVERS of neighbouring business, The Long Table. During the MOBO and World music SLR Doorstep Photography pandemic they have been great work joining forces was formed by reggae DJ with local community kitchens to produce home “I wanted to capture the Juggla, hiphop DJ cooked meals for those who need them (including effect lockdown has had the NHS), prepared by local chefs including Stroud Neil Wilson and jazzman on our families, so started Brewery's very own head chef Shane Bagley! Both our Derrick McLean as a photographing people along teams from The Long Table and Stroud Brewery put community response to the lockdown. SLR features 14 our street, and as word our creative heads together (virtually, of course) to think of Stroud’s favourite DJs performing every weekend, spread, it grew. So, I created about how we could support this fantastic community Friday evening to Sunday..Selection ranges from the ‘Doorstep Photography’ a project and make use of what we have. Beer. One Northern Soul of veteran DJ Andy Edwards through mini photo shoot at home, beer which would have gone to waste because of the to the Acidiscotek of Crooked Stylus. To listen, follow on your doorstep or in your garden. My work and pub closures, was still in the fermenting tank so we Stroud Lockdown Radio Facebook page, clicking on time has been given freely, with people making a organised an emergency canning of our ‘community the links posted at showtimes. donation of whatever they could afford to pay to pale ale’.” The Community Pale Ale is a delicious dry support my work and to keep the arts alive during hopped, golden ale in a 330ml can, with 10p from facebook.com/stroudlockdownradio this crazy time. Despite the difficulties of lockdown, every can sold donated to The Long Table and feeding the one overwhelmingly positive experience everyone people in our community. Visit the website for other has mentioned has been the time they have gained projects including their Take Away Service (also with with their children. I've been capturing the magic of the Long Table) and their #StayGrateful campaign plus childhood for over 15 years and irrespective of the future plans... pandemic, I will endeavour to document the beauty I see in everything.. " stroudbrewery.co.uk shortandsweet.photography

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22 | GOODONPAPER.INFO SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL “When I had seen someone had put these STU amazing stone dinosaurs here I knew I had to come back and get a night shot. I used to shoot JOTHAM a lot of landscapes and I’ve missed doing them and what better place to do a new one than right on my doorstep. Selsley means a lot to me as it’s where I spent a lot of time growing up. I now have a 2 year old boy who loves dinosaurs so wanted to get a different style of shot for him to enjoy. Slow shutter with some extra light spread over the dinosaurs by a torch...”

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SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL GOODONPAPER.INFO | 23 "When the Virus was announced it stopped workers every month via my instagram page ABIGAIL us in our tracks. I’m a keyworker and a (abigailfallisart). Covid has allowed me time mother to high risk children so I had to to explore my Double Helix Sculpture DNA FALLIS make the decision to self isolate.I felt rather DL90 which sits on the Thames and Medway helpless, it was whilst waiting in the queue Canal as part of Line Art Trail. A totem of at the supermarket my hands laid on the shopping trolleys arranged into the form of iconic shopping trolley wondering about a Double Helix towering skywards. They our future as a human race. I decided to have such an impact and coincide with the make a C19 fundraiser edition artwork, to be new launch of the Line Art / Sculpture Trail. released every Thursday, to help Raise funds I believe it's the perfect time to show these for key-workers and local women's refuge new works as we sit it out in isolation waiting charity, after listening to the news about the as scientists shop to discover a cure hidden rise in domestic violence in lockdown. I am within our DNA..." also running a free artwork giveaway to key afallis69.wixsite.com/abigail-fallis