Syrup Projects
Working with people about places.
Syrup is a design studio established in 2016. We create exhibitions, visua
l experiences and projects with people about places. We always work collaboratively.
Our clients include: Southwark Council / Eastside Educational Trust / University College London [UCL] / Live Cinema UK / Tate Exchange / The People’s History Musuem, Manchester / London College of Communication [UAL] / 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
l experiences and projects with people about places. We always work collaboratively.
Our clients include: Southwark Council / Eastside Educational Trust / University College London [UCL] / Live Cinema UK / Tate Exchange / The People’s History Musuem, Manchester / London College of Communication [UAL] / 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.
Public Realm Commissions
As part of a Night Time Strategy for Wandsworth
The Deconstructed Disco explores the relationship art can play in the planning process. The projected aimed to involve a more diverse group of people in the creation of the first Night Time Strategy for Wandsworth (and for London).
The appointed artist, Hanna Benihoud, led two development workshops at local youth clubs with young people to help design and build the artwork. The finished product was installed by Falcon Road underpass in Clapham Junction for 5 days between 26th and 30th of October 2022, to coincide with the clocks going back.
The artwork was inspired by the night time emotions suggested by the young people and took the form of a deconstructed disco ball. Each ‘shard’ was associated with a different emotion and played different music.
An estimated 30 hours was spent talking to the community about the night time.
Brief & project lead: me
Artist & workshop lead: Hanna Benihoud Studio
Participating youth clubs: Devas Club & Providence House, Clapham Junction
The project is funded by a grant from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.
The appointed artist, Hanna Benihoud, led two development workshops at local youth clubs with young people to help design and build the artwork. The finished product was installed by Falcon Road underpass in Clapham Junction for 5 days between 26th and 30th of October 2022, to coincide with the clocks going back.
The artwork was inspired by the night time emotions suggested by the young people and took the form of a deconstructed disco ball. Each ‘shard’ was associated with a different emotion and played different music.
An estimated 30 hours was spent talking to the community about the night time.
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.”
Brief & project lead: me
Artist & workshop lead: Hanna Benihoud Studio
Participating youth clubs: Devas Club & Providence House, Clapham Junction
The project is funded by a grant from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.
Treasured Memories
Oral History, exhibition, community
Exhibition at Eastbury Manor House
‘If you got caught doing something, lo and behold it was home well before you was’
Sandra Walder, workshop participant
Image Credits (L-R)
Vera Mansfield, Michael Threadgold, Vera Mansfield.
Vera Mansfield, Michael Threadgold, Vera Mansfield.
‘Then they opened a store down at Basildon. And they asked me to go, and I thought I had to have a passport! I’d never been further than East Ham!’
Maureen Jones, workshop participant
Situated in the Eastbury Ward of Barking, East London, this community oral history project celebrates the voices and experiences of local residents who have long, and more recent connections to the area. The project aims to document and share participant’s oral histories about living, working, and growing-up in the borough from the early 20th century to the present day.
This exhibition is the culmination of a series of workshops and interviews which took place from October 2018 until July 2019. The audio stories were collected as part of those sessions, and will be preserved at the Archive and Local Studies Centre at Valance House.
Eastbury’s Treasured Memories is led by Positive Change Consultancy and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Credits
Project Lead
Positive Change Consultancy CIC
Sound Art, Curation and Exhibition Design
Grace Crannis & Emily Brisleden-Waters
Graphic Design
Holly Gleave
Fabrication
Patrick Newton
This exhibition is the culmination of a series of workshops and interviews which took place from October 2018 until July 2019. The audio stories were collected as part of those sessions, and will be preserved at the Archive and Local Studies Centre at Valance House.
Eastbury’s Treasured Memories is led by Positive Change Consultancy and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Credits
Project Lead
Positive Change Consultancy CIC
Sound Art, Curation and Exhibition Design
Grace Crannis & Emily Brisleden-Waters
Graphic Design
Holly Gleave
Fabrication
Patrick Newton
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