The Hedge-veg collective, pop up workshop and stall
A wonderful pop up workshop I curated, opening up on Liberation day in the old town bus terminus, where I was given the opportunity to create a workshop for all ages to come and experiment with printing.
I decorated and themed the workshop around the show I have been working on in Making an Honest Living , magnifying on a key and beautiful phenomena of our Island in Hedge-veg’s (roadside stalls). Decorating the kiosk with imagery taken from around the islands roadside stalls, and simultaniously greenifying the interior.
The workshop provided people to experiment with Veg and floral printing, providing veg and produce from Edible Guernsey, and organically grown Indigo and madder ink lakes, grown and cured by George at Bailwick Blue.
The Happy-Go-Hedge-Veg zine, apart of the Making an Honest Living exhibition at the Greenhouse Gallery, Candie Museums, Guernsey.
Through the Tinted pane : A fading freesia
Sculpture, combining printed glass and found vinery dissembled packing box.
Part of the Making an Honest Living Exhibition
Available for purchase.
Moonlight Dust (Ol’ Peels Place)
(mixed media collage with candle wax and ink)
Currently on show at chamber of commerce as part of exhibition listed below.
Ol’ Peels Place (if these walls could talk)
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Untitled (Phantom of the dinner table)
Mixed media, with found material and house emulsion.
Exhibited at Sula gallery, Guernsey. As part of local ‘life’ exhibition, in collaboration of the GAN.
(Exhibited at Guernsey Chamber of Commerce 2/11/25 untill 6/12/25)
Anecdotal Driftwood (2025)
living in the horizon we start to set,
tomorrow, we rise again,
fish we knew, caught in the net,
broken once but overcome the pain,
this mishaped spindle will evoke again…
570 x 570 mm
Mixed media scan on stretched canvas, timber frame.
(Exhibited at Guernsey Chamber of Commerce 2/11/25 untill 6/12/25)
Shoreline Scrapbook (2024)
Exhibited in Sheffield at BLOC PROJECTS, ‘A bell is a Cup’ collaborative exhibition, exploring the limitations and potentials, of painting as both a medium and creative interpretation.
Inside Flowers (2024)
(A5 mix media) (DM for enquiries on purchases and framing)
In recent times, with a drive to create; I have revisted a late project of mine: GLASS HOUSES. With new perspective and being still evidently significant, I feel the deomolition and neglection of Greenhouses is too hot of a topic in our Local environment to not re-enter.
Im revisiting the project with new techniques, imagery and outlook onto the dilemas facing our old vinery sites. Is it time to let go of our past? or how can we celebrate our land heritige through rememberance, education or artistic practices?
Im starting to encorporate Guernesaise (Guernsey patois) as historical references within some works in order to suggest another state of distancing, if be emotional or curiousity: I aim to provoke insight and respect into our fading fields of ancestry and endangered language.
This piece (left), utilising found glass fragments from local damaged vineries, is titled ‘Mémouère de Spànne’ – which is a rough Guernesaise translation of ‘Memory of Greenhouse’.
Mémouère de Spànne is exhibited in a recent exhibition for the Sula Framing and Gallery ‘Changes Exhibition’, on display from the 6th till the 28th of September, and is up for sale for £40. Details for this piece is enlisted below:
Mémouère de Spànne (2024)
(mixed media with glass and gold ink) (420mm x 594mm)
£40
James Kail 