Freddie Robins will be exhibiting with the Blackwater Polytechnic as part of the Anglian Embassy at Sluice Expo 2025, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland hosted by the Technical Museum of East Iceland

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Freddie Robins will be exhibiting with the Blackwater Polytechnic as part of the Anglian Embassy at Supermarket Art Fair, SKHLM Skärholmen Centrum, Stockholm, Sweden

Thursday 3 April to Saturday 5 April 12.00 – 20.00
Sunday 6 April 12.00 – 18.00

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The Anglian Embassy, a collaboration between Blackwater Polytechnic (Braintree), 303 Projects (Lowestoft), Grange Projects (Great Cressingham), Original Projects, Possible Worlds, and Red Herring Press (Great Yarmouth), will showcase East Anglian artists at Supermarket in Stockholm. Ben Coode-Adams and Sophie Giller have developed, designed and built our stand.

We are committed to establishing practical, long-term partnerships with artist-run organisations in East Anglia for mutual benefit and to share skills, resources, and creative people. Our coastline and hinterland are now studded with artist-run projects. This project will serve as a strategic roadmap for future collaborations, empowering artist-run spaces to be bold and effective in supporting artists to create ambitious new work.

Through this initiative, we will introduce our region on an international stage. We are eager to revitalise connections with our close neighbours—organisations and individuals around the North Sea who share our rich heritage. After all, Antwerp is nearer to us than Manchester. Participating in this expo is a cost-effective approach and a powerful way to connect with organisations and individuals who can create opportunities for us to advance projects both locally and abroad, making the most of our resources.

Our region is in the midst of a transformative revolution in green energy, population growth, and gravel extraction. While we experience our own Industrial Revolution and urbanisation—albeit two centuries later than everyone else—we find ourselves culturally and politically unprepared. Our ecologically fragile coastline hosts 90 million migrating birds on fast-eroding mudflats and salt marshes. This project will engage our counterparts across the North Sea who are facing similar challenges.

Our objectives are clear: elevate the profile of our region’s visual arts both internally and externally, create a forum to discuss our shared cultural orbit around the North Sea, and initiate collaborative international projects through networking.

Ultimately, we aspire to cultivate an atmosphere of inclusion and support that empowers all artists—regardless of their background—to flourish and enhance the vibrant artistic landscape of our region. By uniting our efforts and resources, we will not only reinforce our local arts community but also make a meaningful impact on a wider scale, amplifying our voices across borders and shaping the future of the arts in the North Sea area.
Statement by Ben Coode-Adams

MEDUSA, curated by Mike Chavez-Dawson

Union Gallery
94 Teesdale Street
London
E2 6PU

Preview Saturday 22 February 2025 1-6pm
Exhibition runs until 22 March 2025
Open Thursday – Saturday 12-6pm and by appointment
020 8281 4448
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Featuring:
Ada Bond
Brass Art
Jane Chavez-Dawson
Mike Chavez-Dawson & AI, with Rebecca Davy
Karen Densham
Sarah Hardacre
Sam Owen Hall
Hilary Jack
Rachel Goodyear
Ruth Murray
Freddie Robins
Angela Tait
Nye Thompson
Jessica Voorsanger
Jude Wainwright
Evita Ziemele

Read the review by Jo Manby in the Fourdrinier here

Freddie Robins’ limited-edition tea towel, Ghosts, is specially commissioned for Art at Home. It is made in the UK, and digitally printed on long lasting and sustainable union linen.
Size: 78 × 48 cms
Price: £18.00

View + buy from the Tea Towel Art Collection on the Art at Home website

Art at Home presents a curated choice of affordable artworks for your home, available to buy online.
Devised by Kath Wood and inspired by her lifelong passion to connect artists to new audiences, Art at Home is the culmination of more than 30 years of working with artists, galleries and museums across the UK. This venture showcases new collections of art by living artists which changes seasonally. Browse over 60 affordable artworks and delve into the artists’ inspirations and techniques in the Artist Profiles section.

Craft Kills, held in the Crafts Council Collection, is exhibited as part of 5&20. The exhibition celebrates two shared milestones; five years of the Brookfield Properties Craft Award and 20 years of Collect Art Fair.

This one-off celebration show, supported with funding from London EC BID, exhibits over 30 artworks from Crafts Council collection, with a direct link to Collect. These objects, which form part the national collection for craft, include ceramics, jewellery, glass, bronze and textiles. Many have not been shown to the public for years.

99 Bishopsgate, London EC2
Monday to Saturday 9.00am – 5.00pm
Free entrance

For more information

To download the Artist 5&20 Booklet