things to make and do

biscuit jurassic park

2012-02-10T11:04:00.000-08:00

working on a new film . . . .

2012-02-06T10:53:00.001-08:00

Insect Opera Beetle Drive

2012-02-01T12:47:00.000-08:00

I've been working on a new game . . . Insect Opera Beetle Drive . . which you will soon be able to buy from the sadlucy shop and at the live shows . . . here are a couple of pictures from it

(obviously I didn't invent this game, but I've illustrated my own version)

i got an award!

2012-02-01T10:54:00.001-08:00

well . . . look i just got a little blogging award, it's for people like me who don't really have many followers . . . I was awarded it by Cynthia who has a very sweet blog about things she finds in her son's pockets. And speaking of her son, you should check out his drawings here . . . they came to one of my shows and he drew a brilliant dinosaur. His drawings are amazing!

Having been awarded this I'm now supposed to nominate some other people with excellent blogs, (but with less than 200 subscribers . . ) you should really have a look at my friend Viviane Schwarz's page, although I'm sure she has a lot more than 200 followers, and I've also rather obscurely got quite interested in reading about Jim's life here (I think I found it when I was researching Turkey and cranberry sauce for one of my shows. Go there and have a look!

merry christmas - snowball robobauble to make!

2011-12-20T09:39:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, happy Christmas! why not print off my snowball tree decoration and glue it together? Hang it off your tree or fill it with water and throw it at your friends . . .

if you enjoy making it there's still time to go to a cass art shop in London and buy a pack of my 5 christmas card robobauble tree decorations! hurry while stocks last, wow!

2011-10-31T06:31:00.000-07:00

here is my new pumpkin halloween papertoy, he has a voodoo teddy to hex the trick-or-treaters with . . . download it from here - http://www.sadlucy.com/littlepumpkin.pdf

hope you like it!

make your own roboinsect

2011-04-30T12:16:00.001-07:00

Roboinsects

2011-04-29T04:23:00.000-07:00

the roboinsects. a new installation at London Zoo curated by Pestival

the doctor will see you now . . .

2011-02-24T04:19:00.000-08:00

. . . coming soon - make-your-own-dress-up-robots

home-made walter knitty

2011-01-10T04:39:00.001-08:00

home-made walter knitty by Ellie

Flyboy show pictures

2010-12-19T12:44:00.000-08:00

photos from Flyboy is alone again this Christmas at the Barbican

photos by Step Haiselden

make-your-own shadow puppets

2010-12-10T10:28:00.000-08:00

I made a comic strip for the Times

barbican christmas

2010-12-06T12:32:00.000-08:00

I made a film for the Barbican

live album

2010-11-14T14:27:00.001-08:00

the live album is almost ready . . . pre-order now at sadlucy.com, for a special price, plus first 50 orders come with 3 free badges

noah's ark comic part 3

2010-11-14T14:24:00.000-08:00

Noah's Ark comic part 2

2010-11-14T11:22:00.001-08:00

Flyboy is alone again this Christmas

2010-11-13T13:59:00.001-08:00

barbican tickets are on sale now . . . click here

noah's ark comic

2010-11-06T09:24:00.000-07:00

here's the first few pieces from my noah's ark CD artwork

and I found a nice review from earlier in the year, click here . . .

Noah's Ark

2010-10-28T11:45:00.000-07:00

we recorded a live album last week . . . it's called Noah's Ark and is available for pre-order from sadlucy.com.

here are some pictures from the evening by Step Haiselden

barbican brochure

2010-10-26T11:40:00.001-07:00

I drew some pictures for the new december guide at the barbican . . .

shadow puppet workshop for "a week in words"

2008-12-18T03:02:00.001-08:00

things to make and do - part two: baking

2008-12-18T02:10:00.000-08:00

Part two of things to make and do was baking. This time we stayed in South London: Clapham and Battersea. As before this project focused on visiting useful shops followed by making workshops, we were going to be baking for Halloween. Useful shops included Dentons on Clapham High Street, and La Cuisiniere and TKMaxx on Northcote Road.

Time was taken to test out the local patisseries.

As well as baking we made chutney - Silvia brought some green tomatoes from her balcony and Paul and I added ours that hadn't ripened yet.

Holly brought recipes for us to work on.

things to make and do - part one: urban beachcombing

2008-12-18T01:34:00.000-08:00

I like constructing things out of old boxes, knitting my own clothes, making my own books and merchandise. I wanted to meet up with people who had similar interests in the home-made element and who would have favourite places to visit to source materials and find inspiration, as well as processes and techniques to share with the rest of the group.

Ten people took part in this project over the two days I ran it, I wanted to have a flexibility to the process to allow people to fit it in even if they were busy. We met the first afternoon/evening in a cafe and discussed our work, making plans for the following day.

The next day we met early at Graeme’s house and had a paper-folding workshop, learning how to make books with no extra binding materials and origami punnets and CD cases. This was followed by badge-making.

In the afternoon we began our visits. We had decided to focus on East London today so first we went to Shoreditch City Farm, this was followed by Prick Your Finger, on Globe Road, where Rachael Matthews greeted us and showed us around her shop. We had a look around Concrete Hermit and we finished up at BookArtBookShop, having to forgoe the robot exhibition at the Museum of Childhood and the paper-bag shop that we had heard so much about.

Here is what some of the participants said:

Alexia Anastasiadis:

I took part in Matthew’s DIY project becasue it was a good, practical way to

discover more about available resources from other london-based artists with similar practices to my own. I thought the fliexible structure of the sessions was ideal making it possible for me to participate during a very busy time, while creating a great environment for sharing ideas and swapping information. I learned some very useful things.

Helen Schoene:

From learning how to make CD cases, envelopes and booklets out of A4 sheets of paper to strolling through Shoreditch City Farm, and from wandering through bookshops to visiting haberdasheries, I definitely had a very enjoyable day with my fellow beachcombers.

I hope there will be an opportunity to meet again and maybe discover each others’ local areas as well as sharing and teaching each other specialities of our practices, all of which seemed very much focused on the love of materials and craftsmanship.

Tim Spooner:

I liked that it had no aim of a finished outcome. This way we could all take away from it what we found personally useful.

I like people who make things by hand, I think it gives you a particular practicality, and it was lovely to meet people who make different kinds of work but who all clearly have this connection with and affection for physical materials.

Holly

It was delightful - the punnet-making and book-making have made me

terribly eager to come up with a project that will actually use them,

but in the mean time just being able to make punnets is satisfying.

Having people be enthusiastic about shops that I've passed before and

never thought to look in was also great - and though I haven't yet

managed to find the fabled Paper Bag Shop, I'm anticipating with

barely-contained glee the day when I finally do.

This project was supported by DIY 5 . . . DIY5 is a Live Art Development Agency initiative developed in collaboration with Arnolfini and Theatre Bristol; Artsadmin; Colchester Arts Centre; Fierce Earth, North East; New Work Network and China Plate; and Nuffield Theatre and LANWest