“The fiesta was empowering, challenging, hopeful and celebratory… and I can’t wait for the next one” Mme Montserrat Oh what a fantastic fiesta we had in the Borough on Saturday! From what began as a little conversation with Polly and Bingo Brown in our local pub it just gathered and grew into something much more
Continue reading »
The stage is set, the sound system working and the bunting all burned and ready to be strung up. Shanti will pull on her riding boots and open the doors to HQ at 2 o’clock sharp and Bingo Brown and her gang will be out on the street with a jumble of ex lovers crap
Continue reading »
To commemorate the return of the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance, Miss Pokeno has commissioned artist Jimmy Cauty to create two special editions of A Riot In Jam Jar. They will be available on the day of the Sister’s fiesta. Saturday 11th October Doyce Street SE1 0EU 2pm – 6pm REPENT OR SWING 1:87 scale plastic
Continue reading »
Bird and me have been slaving over a hot computer for a while now pulling the threads all together to get Fiesta 001 happening at HQ. We have gathered together a brilliant gang of troublemaking women to show their art and tell stories and sell their wares. The idea is to mix up some of
Continue reading »
The Return of the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance A Celebration HQ Doyce Street SE1 0EU Saturday 11th October 2 – 6pm Bringing together a renegade group of women artists, performers and trouble-makers for a fiesta celebrating the return of the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance. Imagine a day of irreverent, joyous dissent including: Smash the patriarchy!
Continue reading »
Things are shaping up for a good afternoon of celebration, put the date in your diaries and watch this space for more details as they emerge: HQ Doyce Street London SE1 0EU Saturday afternoon October 11th 2014 2pm-6pm
Continue reading »
The Trophy chair is all wrapped in calico and cardboard and tomorrow it will be crated and sent forth across the oceans to its new life beneath the southern stars in Sydney. Strange to see it go. It feels a bit like I have sold a favourite child. A golden child who began my obsession with
Continue reading »
The Sisters have been gone so long I think they forgot which way was home. Exhausted from chair making and troublemaking they declared in early spring they were going underground and for a long time nothing at all was heard from them. Then in high summer vague rumours of their whereabouts began to circulate and
Continue reading »
Commissioning Jimmy to make those smiley riot shields for the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance was like opening the Thames Barrier at high tide. The Sisters got the first few and then there was a great tidal wave of blokes fighting over them. It was chaos in the studio – paypal kerchinging like some digital speed
Continue reading »
The prodigal daughter has at last returned triumphant from her travels to the south seas to rejoin the Sisters for new adventures in the underground. While digging through a pile of things discarded before she left we unearthed a police riot shield painted bright sunshine yellow with a smiley face. It was only one of
Continue reading »