FRONTIERLANDS

FRONTIERLANDS
with Hazel Sheffield, Rosanna Martin, Jeanie Sinclair & Tom Ebdon
WED 11 NOV
6.00 - 8.30 PM

Please join us for an evening of conversations exploring the potential of regenerative and waste materials, reclaimed land and derelict buildings to help us face the climate emergency.

COST:
£3 - low spare income
£5 - cover the cost of the event
£7 - help us fund more events like this
a small booking fee of less than £1 is added to each ticket, this is the fee taken by the ticketing and payment software

Please pay what you can. We hope that offering a sliding scale enables more people to join.
Wine and soft drinks included.

DAY / TIME:
WED 11 NOV
6.00 PM - 8.30 PM
Arrive from 6pm for complimentary drinks for a 6.30pm start to the talk.

LOCATION:
Art Room, The School Room
Art Centre Penryn
The Terrace
Penryn
TR10 8EH

About the event:

Hazel Sheffield is the author of a new book Frontierlands, published in February, which follows ten UK communities occupying derelict land and buildings and reimagining them for the uncertainties of the future. One of the chapters is about Rosanna Martin, a Cornish artist who has established Brickfield, an experimental brickworks in a former china clay pit in St Austell.

The evening is chaired by Tom Ebdon, an architect, educator and PhD researcher investigating the importance of place and the potential of bio-regional materials to address the climate emergency, biodiversity loss and the housing crisis.

This is a space for conversation and curiosity: about dereliction and revival, who gets to decide what counts as waste and the practicalities of occupation and reuse by communities. The audience is invited to bring their stories of reusing waste material and reinhabiting lost or derelict spaces. Refreshments are included and the book will be available to buy.

About Hazel Sheffield
Hazel Sheffield is a business reporter and investigative journalist. Her work can be found in national and international publications including the Guardian, Follow the Money and the Financial Times. Before going freelance, she covered derivatives for Euromoney and worked as the business editor of the Independent. She left the Independent in the summer of 2016 to start a grant-funded project called farnearer.org, documenting self-organising communities and economic alternatives in the UK. After a decade of reporting, that work has come together as Frontierlands, her first book. She lives with her family in Hastings

Hazel Sheffield

About Brickfield
Brickfield CIC is an artist-led participatory brickworks and site of collaborative material research based on a patch of ex china clay extraction land on the outskirts of St Austell, Cornwall. Our focus is on transforming waste materials from the china clay industry through making practices that draw on the heritage of Cornish brick making, alongside sculptural ceramics and experimental architecture. Our ongoing aim is to nurture a space of cross-disciplinary and intergenerational research, exchange and learning.

Brickfield is run by Rosanna Martin, and a whole host of volunteers, collaborators and partners. Rosanna is an artist, educator and PhD student at Falmouth University. Her practice based PhD project titled Tools for Kith Making is focused on making sculptural apparatus using regionally specific waste materials to reframe interdependencies towards a post-capitalist future. Rosanna grew up exploring the tidal flats of a part of the River Fal where a huge deposit of waste china clay and mica had settled behind a spit of land, providing a clay source for a brickworks.

Rosanna Martin and John Osborne at Brickfield

About Dr Jeanie Sinclair
Jeanie Sinclair is a feminist art historian researching gender, sexuality and modernism in Cornwall. Her work uses gossip, parties and oral histories to uncover hidden feminist and queer narratives of women’s creative work, collectivism and community. As senior lecturer at Falmouth University, she develops interdisciplinary research on archives, illustration and ceramics, alongside innovative pedagogies for teaching critical studies to studio practice students.

image courtesy Jeanie Sinclair

About Tom Ebdon
Tom is an architect and educator who has spent the past twenty years working between architectural practice and academia. Between 2014-23 Tom’s time as Head of Architecture was invested in establishing a new “school” of architecture at Falmouth University, exploring this unique geographic, social and cultural environment through a lens of Radical Regionalism.

Tom has extensive architectural practice experience, leading his own practice from 2012 to 2020, building upon the skills and knowledge he gained working for award winning practices in London. He has extensive project architect experience working on numerous national award-winning buildings.

Tom has now turned his focus to the huge challenge of the Climate Emergency, undertaking a full-time PhD by design that explores the architectural tectonics of climate action and place. This timely research seeks to explore the potential of hyper-local, biobased materials and the new tectonics of climate action that offer alternatives to the current defunct status-quo.

Tom Ebdon

Frontierlands:
Britain’s Survival in the Making
by Hazel Sheffield

Published in hardback by Torva, priced £20.00
eBook and audio also available

Communities on Britain’s margins, left alone by the centres of power, are boldly rewriting the future, reclaiming and reimagining neglected land and buildings to prepare all of us for the uncertainties ahead.

'Frontierlands' are Britain's forgotten places. Silt-filled harbours, overgrown forests, sunken railway tracks and empty buildings. All once economic engines, now abandoned by investors and the state. But they are home to local communities, and amongst them, some remarkable pioneers working together to repair, rebuild and prepare for the future.

Hazel Sheffield takes her readers on a journey that begins at the coastline and travels inward via hoardings and railway arches, factories, streets and neighbourhoods to our homes. Moving from Watchet harbour in the South West to Gateshead in the North East, from Lancashire to London and the South East, she introduces us to the people who are acting to shape their own destinies - people with first-hand knowledge of the problems Britain faces and with clear ideas how to make things better.

This is a book about regeneration, reclaiming power, and the hope that comes from community action. About people questioning how the world works and determined to do things differently in the face of economic upheaval and climate crisis. People learning to build a new world, challenging us all to think about how we should live in the face of certain change.

‘This is not just a grassroots manual for 21st century survival – groundswelling and prophetic, it could be a startling blueprint for life in the 22nd.’ Tom Nancollas, author of Seashaken Houses

About the venue:

Art Centre Penryn is a creative space in the making, we’re transforming a heritage building into a centre for contemporary art.  This event will be in the art room on the ground floor of the school room building, behind the former chapel. Please note that the school room has a stepped entrance, we apologise that it is not currently wheelchair accessible. 
artcentrepenryn.org

The art room at Art Centre Penryn

The art room at Art Centre Penryn, artist networking event

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