daydreams, doodles and poetry.

Wk1: Our Space.

For the launch event on October 11th we created a physical installation with about 25 meters of tracing paper. It dangles from the ceiling, drapes itself over the gallery walls and emerges from canvases and easels… as with everything in our evolving journal, its a work in progress, but it felt like an appropriate visual representation of the journals aims.

Over the past week visitors at the 01902 gallery space have doodled the walls (well, the tracing paper on the walls!) and expressed their thoughts with markers pens and doodled as they chilled for a moment or two. It’s a tapestry of the space, of our space. We began with a selections of daydreams gathered at the EOP Winter Fair 2024 at Eastside Projects (2025 submissions are currently open for artists who’d like to sell their art and keep 100% of the proceeds) and a prompt, a baton passed on to us from the AudioPULP soft launch in Digbeth’s BAA last month – SMASH THE CONTROL MACHINE…

Wolverhampton appears to be collectively saying “if you love yourself + each other… the machine will collapse by itself” …unexpected, yet delightful. We’re looking forward to seeing how this community installation evolves over the issue.