THE ARTISTS
Molly Bonnell
London-based artist, facilitator and curator. Their practice is collaborative, responding to how we care and are cared for by society, our planet and others. Their experiences of chronic illness and disability shape their work, which explores themes of health, accessibility, materiality, play and craft. Grounded in activist and intersectional methods, and they primarily collaborate with those who have had barriers to accessing creativity. They often share their multidisciplinary practice through workshops, and have a particular interest in glasswork, sculpture, textiles, and writing. Alongside their art practice, Molly is on the team at Hill Station Cafe and developed this project in collaboration with the cafe to platform and celebrate the creativity of South East London.→ For this project, Molly will be collaborating with young people from Somerville Youth Club.
Nic Sanderson
Working primarily through sculpture, Nic Sanderson approaches objects not as symbols but as active agents within processes of meaning-making. Materials are understood as carriers of memory that exceed human authorship: they retain traces of prior use and context while remaining partially unknowable. This dual condition of intimacy and resistance is central to his work. He is concerned with how materials can produce effective proximity while withholding full legibility. Rather than constructing fixed narratives, Sanderson’s sculptures generate encounters in which meaning emerges through material histories and the viewer’s perception. By gleaning discarded or overlooked objects, the work foregrounds the temporality embedded within material culture. These works open a dialogue between past and present. In this sense, objects operate as extensions of human presence, persisting beyond the body and articulating forms of collective memory. He lives and works in South East London.→ For this project, Nic will be collaborating with local Telegraph Hill residents and families. You can sign up for his workshops here.
Communal Clay
Communal Clay CIC offers low cost and free workshops to the local community. Our aim is making clay and sculpture more inclusive and accessible to everyone. We chose clay as although ceramics can be seen as an inaccessible and an expensive material, clay itself is widely accessible, and exists underneath our every step. Our approach is sustainability conscious and has led us to digging our own wild clay and using plant waste, shells, bone and other organic matter to create homemade ash glazes. Run by Tabitha Weddell and Alice Kasahare.→ For this project, Communal Clay will be collaborating with members of Just Older Youth.