Lynette Willoughby – Artist ….

Made for the exhibition at Liverpool Artist’s Book Fair in June 2016, commemorating the 400th anniversary of his death – The Tempest: We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On. Again collaborating with Clare and using the copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare which my brother Andy left me when he went off to become a beatnik in 1966 I inserted etched acrylic sheets in the ‘island’ of the book and surrounded it with waves cut from graphic novel versions of The Tempest. The wonderful Symon Ryder negotiated for part of the exhibition, including our book, to travel to Sarno in Italy, where it’s currently on display (and enjoying its travels very much…)

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A Lawyer, an Engineer and Two Artists

Another succesful installation in David’s house, this time on the theme of Autobiography. It was fascinating working together, sharing feedback on our indiviudal pieces and working together on two collaborative pieces – hard work but enormous fun.

Again photos by Maria Spadafora, through Leeds Creative Timebank.

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Again Clare and I had a Rock-Tree-Landscape stall at the Leeds Artist’s Book Fair and had a very successful weekend.

A different direction this year for our ‘books’ – painted sappling roots wired onto pieces of bark ….. Not what yer average punter might want on their bookshelf but caught people’s attaention and we had lots of very interesting conversations.

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Tina’s Room   or   A Room of One’s Own

 In 1928 Virginia Woolf investigated what was needed for a woman to be a writer of fiction in “A Room of One’s Own”. In 2004 a room was built for Christina Honeybone, a handloom weaver, as her studio. She died in 2007. As artists who make site specific work, David Honeybone and I put these two events together and created an installation for Roundhay Open Studios. It combines the story of that place with the issues emphasised by Virginia Woolf – a private space, a lockable door and sufficient income – uninterrupted time to think and create.

Everything in the space had a direct connection with the space, the person for whom it was built and Virginia Woolf’s book – yarns ready for weaving, an eclectic collection of  books from classical studies to techniques of weaving, postcards collected over decades, the objects needed for creativity and work we have made in response.

Photos by Maria Spadafora

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