Tag: PINSTALLATION

HANG IN THERE – *EXTENDED TIL 27TH NOV

HANG IN THERE – PINStallation @ Salvation Army

“If it aint easy, make it easy”
Mum said that

PiNStory

So back when I was a wee nipper, mum used to take us to the local Salvation Army in Croydon, the one near the main flyover, after school and on weekends for a kinda youth club based there. I remember a biggish hall, a tuck shop with all the freshest sweets, snooker / pool tables, arts n craft options, 5-a-side footy, basically a ‘vibe’ for any kid with bags of energy.…

2 WEEKS LEFT! – ‘COMING HOME’ PINSTALLATION

CEDAR VIEW CARE CENTRE – VISIT

So during my ‘Coming Home’ PINStallation at the Museum of Croydon , I’ve met so many diverse people, young and gold, from diverse backgrounds enter the space. One such group was The Cedar View Care Centre guys who whizzed down, and of course I gave them the full tour / breakdown of what the project was about, to which they positively responded and got involved in designing their brick boxes 🙂

Special thanks to Karen, who works at the Centre, for not only bringing the guys down but also for her enthusiasm in doing so, and really embracing the creativeness of it all, by literally creating a ‘PINShrine’ of the day in their reception area at the Centre – how random, how cool *Big up Kaz!…

100 YEARS OF COUNCIL HOUSING – CROYDON EXHIBITION

This year marks 100 years since the Housing Act, which in 1919 gave rise to widespread building of council housing across the UK and including the London Borough of Croydon. So since visiting my Stormzy / Coming Home installation currently on at the Museum of Croydon, the Croydon Housing team got in touch, felt the ‘bricks’ vibe and wanted an interactive element to their ‘100 Years Of Council Housing’ exhibition which they were putting on, along with archival bits from the Museum itself.…