Annual Review 2024
We work hard: We play hard
All The Spaces We’ve Never Used: Place & Power in Croydon
Following the close of Croydon’s Borough of Culture year, Croydon arts charity Turf Projects explore spaces we’ve tried to use over the years and what’s become of them, as we ask whether communities truly have any power in decisions about the spaces around them.
The Horse & Groom (Glamorgan/Grouse & Claret) [A case presented by Roger Wagner]
Planning Applications for redevelopment are not a noted source of deeply researched historic/heritage/social/cultural/economic data. So …
Playing Retrospectives
When you play you are not in a subject-object relationship with other human and non-human entities but rather trying to be in correspondence with others.
Compost and Urban Rebirth
Give communities the nutrients and they’ll reformat their own environment.
Ebun Sodipo (Artist Feedback Session)
I was given the opportunity to host by Turf to host a virtual feedback session. It wasn’t my first lockdown virtual crit, they have been invaluable to maintaining my practice through the pandemic.
Tools to manage your creative project (without dying inside)
Some of the tools we use at Turf to manage creative projects collaboratively.
Installing Fungus Press: Derica Shields ‘like all waiting seeds’
In late April, a glorious thing happens. Every seed that has been waiting under the surface for the last few months, shoots and springs into life.
HIDDEN / REVEALED
British Museum Webinar: Hidden / Revealed I am Jessie Yates, a young artist born and raised in London. I am currently doing some voluntary work for Turf Projects in Croydon, focusing on accessibility, with the goal of assisting their workers with Turf’s services to the local community. On Friday 5th February the British Museum held a […]
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (Artist Feedback Session)
It’s the beginning of 2021. We are all hoping that this year will be better than the last.