The Recycled House 2012
Artists' Open House - Sydenham Arts Festival 2012
If you are on the Visual Arts Trail - Sat/Sun 14-15 then make your way here, this is a great find.
I wholly recommend you take the time to visit to this living art piece, The Recycled House. It's a real home & ever changing installation piece, conceived and constructed by the creative pair of Kate Shipp and Mark Hill. Though amongst the salvaged beauty is a very real and admirable ethic : This is anti-consumerism writ large
Sydenham Arts Festival gives us a brief (one week-end only) opportunity to see this amusing and captivating space. Imagine a house decorated by Sir John Soane but sourced by Albert Steptoe. The interior is full of items saved literally from skips and scoured at boot sales. Items swapped, traded and made from salvaged materials or scrap, things most of us would overlook.
I've personally been to the house a number of times and each time I discover a new part I'd overlooked before. Though it may well have never been there in the first place, in all it gives you a heady flood of images and objects to view; be warned though, this is no trip to Ikea.
Also much of what you see is for sale. Mark is a working artist & trader, so don't be surprised to find price tags on your tea cups or cake stands. Also ask to see his other work too; it's all there on the walls, with much more hidden in the plan chests.
I've personally been to the house a number of times and each time I discover a new part I'd overlooked before. Though it may well have never been there in the first place, in all it gives you a heady flood of images and objects to view; be warned though, this is no trip to Ikea.
Also much of what you see is for sale. Mark is a working artist & trader, so don't be surprised to find price tags on your tea cups or cake stands. Also ask to see his other work too; it's all there on the walls, with much more hidden in the plan chests.
4 Longton Avenue SE26 *click on for a map near to the beautiful Sydenham Wells park
It's easy to get to by car, bus or train * see links
By train, head for Sydenham in SE26 on the fantastic new overground Train Service and it's about a 10 minute walk from the station.
Buses from Crystal Palace run every 10 minutes.
Contact details
shipp.hill@virgin.net
And, maybe I'll see you there....
