Freddie Robins is interviewed by Maria Rosaria Roseo in ArteMorbida Textile Arts Magazine. Text available in Italian and English

Read interview here

Freddie Robins has been ‘making’ at Beasley Brothers Repair Shop with the designer, Carl Clerkin. Beasley Brothers’ Repair Shop is Clerkin’s brainchild. It is modelled on traditional East End repair shops of old, that could and would repair anything. Clerkin is inviting other artists and designers to join him during the exhibition, working live to transform discarded objects to give them a new lease of life.

Clerkin has also selected photographs of his favourite artists’ and designers’ repairs. He has included Robins’ domestic repair Sofa damaged by cats, repaired by human through use of custom made tin badges.

Eternally Yours – Care, Repair and Healing
Somerset House
Terrace Rooms, South Wing
Strand, London WC2R 1LA

Exhibition runs until 25 September 2022

Robins and Clerkin’s chair will be exhibited as part of Beasley Brothers Repair Shop at Material Matters 2022, a new design fair that takes place during the London Design Festival from 22 – 25 September 2022.

Material Matters 2022, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, London SE1 9PH
For more information and opening hours

The Blackwater Polytechnic (Ben Coode-Adams, Freddie Robins, Sara Impey, Justin Knopp and Simon Emery – The Paintbox) are exhibiting the collaborative work, Tree, in the Craftspace national touring exhibition We are Commoners: Creative Acts of Commoning.

The exhibition highlights acts of ‘commoning’ that are shaping the way communities are working together to share and steward commonly owned assets and resources. It also investigates craft as a form of commons through knowledge, materials, practice and heritage.

The exhibition also includes new work by artists: Amy Twigger Holroyd, Deirdre Nelson, Hefin Jones, Linda Brothwell, Jacky Oliver, Common Agency Projects (Shane Waltener & Laura Glaser), Lise Bjørne Linnert with Gelawesh Waledkhani, Rachael Colley, Alinah Azadeh, Hefin Jones and Kate Hodgson.

The Gallery, Hull Central Library
Albion Street
Hull
HU1 3TF
Hull Central Library

Exhibition runs from 23 July – 20 September 2022

For more information about Craftspace and We are Commoners

Freddie Robins adds to Tatty Devine’s Cabinet of Curiosities with Many, a wooden gravel used in The Essex Witch Trials of 1645.

The Cabinet of Curiosities is an exhibition curated by Tatty Devine to celebrate the launch of their new AW22 jewellery collection. The exhibition captures the sense of wonder and awe from Wonder Rooms of the past and includes contemporary artists alongside folk art, oddities and curios alongside the new jewellery collection.

See the work at Alfies Antique Market,13 – 25 Church St, London NW8 8DT between 25th August and 17th September 2022.
Open Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm

For more information about Alfies Antique Market
For more information about Tatty Devine

Freddie Robins will be in conversation with Grant Gibson, design writer and editor, as part of the Conversations in Craft programme at Artefact, the Contemporary Craft Fair.

11.00am
Saturday 14th May 2022
Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour,
Lots Road, London SW10 0XE

‘The common perception of knitting is that it’s a gentle, mindful activity. A thing you can do quietly in front of the television to relax after a hard day. Freddie Robins’ work is the antithesis of all that. It’s frequently dark, often witty, and always provocative, challenging the perceived hierarchy of art and craft.’

Tickets £10.00, with price donated to DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal

For more information about the Conversations in Craft programme, Artefact, the Contemporary Craft Fair and to book tickets