Syrup projects
Working with people about places.
Syrup projects is a design studio and collaborative partnership established in 2016. As of 2024, the collaboration is on pause.
Clients: Southwark Council / Deptford X Festival / Eastside Educational Trust / The Migration Musuem / University College London / Live Cinema UK / Tate Exchange / The People’s History Musuem, Manchester / London College of Communication / Science Gallery London.
From 2016-2019, we produced an annual (ish) print magazine:
︎ Issue One: Sticky
︎ Issue Two: Borders
︎ Issue Three: Power
syrupmagazine.co.uk
@syrupmagazine
With Emily Briselden-Waters
Clients: Southwark Council / Deptford X Festival / Eastside Educational Trust / The Migration Musuem / University College London / Live Cinema UK / Tate Exchange / The People’s History Musuem, Manchester / London College of Communication / Science Gallery London.
From 2016-2019, we produced an annual (ish) print magazine:
︎ Issue One: Sticky
︎ Issue Two: Borders
︎ Issue Three: Power
syrupmagazine.co.uk
@syrupmagazine
With Emily Briselden-Waters
What is planning?
Booklet
What is planning? tells the story of why we need to organise our cities, why we create planning policy and how people can get involved in the process.
Concept & storyboard: me, with support from colleagues at Wandsworth Council
Illustration & layout: Maddison Graphic
Funded by a PropTech grant from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communites.
Printed in March 2023.
Concept & storyboard: me, with support from colleagues at Wandsworth Council
Illustration & layout: Maddison Graphic
Funded by a PropTech grant from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communites.
Printed in March 2023.
art x planning
Bringing artists and creative approaches into the production of policy
These commissioned projects are part of ongoing work to explore the role artists can play in the production of policy, both as a way to shape and influence, but also to communicate and involve others.
Deconstructed Disco ︎ Hanna Benihoud Studio, 2022
Sounds of the Borough ︎ Publica, 2022
Darkenss in Urban Spaces ︎ Kim Coleman and Harun Morrison, 2023-24
Deconstrcuted Disco photography by Tim Jobling
Deconstructed Disco ︎ Hanna Benihoud Studio, 2022
Sounds of the Borough ︎ Publica, 2022
Darkenss in Urban Spaces ︎ Kim Coleman and Harun Morrison, 2023-24
Deconstrcuted Disco photography by Tim Jobling
Hanna said:
“I was drawn to this project because it gave me the opportunity to use public art in a new way. I think a lot about engagement and how you even get the attention of people. Creating moments of surprise and intrigue I think is a really powerful tool to get to people who would never usually engage with the planning process.”
Take it to the corner
Sound installation
Production of an installation for Jumpers for Goalposts, a new football and culture festival at Printworks in August 2019. Later displayed at the Tate Exchange as part of, ‘Who are ya!?’.
Football flags have been an essential part of the material culture of football, from the grassroots to the professional game for over a hundred years. We embedded the sounds of grassroots football in ours: the sound of matches on village greens, on pitch rituals, to the distinctive on-pitch communication - get rid!, stick it in the mixer & studs brushing the grass. Text by Paul Whitty.
Credits:
Sound Recording
Paul Whitty with support from the Sound Diaries project at Oxford Brookes University
www.sound-diaries.co.uk
Fabrication
In Situ
With support from the Tate Exchange
Photography
Dan Weill
Football flags have been an essential part of the material culture of football, from the grassroots to the professional game for over a hundred years. We embedded the sounds of grassroots football in ours: the sound of matches on village greens, on pitch rituals, to the distinctive on-pitch communication - get rid!, stick it in the mixer & studs brushing the grass. Text by Paul Whitty.
Credits:
Sound Recording
Paul Whitty with support from the Sound Diaries project at Oxford Brookes University
www.sound-diaries.co.uk
Fabrication
In Situ
With support from the Tate Exchange
Photography
Dan Weill
New for Old Residency
Residency, research, exhibition
This residency supported by the British Council focused on the experiences of women artisans who work with traditional crafts in Sa Pa and Hao Binh provinces in rural Vietnam. In collaboration with Thảo Vu, Hûyen Nguyen and Tenaya Steed.
Film produced as part of the project
Exhibition ︎ On the Line, The Aram Gallery, London craft week 2017
Exhibition Design
Mentsen
Curator
Martina Margetts
Film produced as part of the project
Exhibition ︎ On the Line, The Aram Gallery, London craft week 2017
Exhibition Design
Mentsen
Curator
Martina Margetts