Stones of Croydon // Central – Queen’s Gardens // Artist led drawing tour with Holly Hendry

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Stones of Croydon // Artist-Led Drawing Tour with Holly Hendry // Central - Queens Gardens

Saturday 10 September, 1-3pm // Meeting at the corner of Katherine Street and Fell Road

Free & materials provided

The centre of Croydon is a place where layers of history and time can be seen through the architecture, people, spaces and businesses that create it – an eclectic combination of the bumpiness of old cobbled streets and sleek sheen of new shop facades. Holly’s drawing tour will consider the historical foundations of Croydon, taking the ground that we walk on and the surfaces that surround us as our starting point and inspiration, materially and conceptually. 

On the walking tour we will aim to make a visual map of Croydon that is almost literally made from the towns own layers of history. Using a combination of ancient and modern materials that are associated with Croydon (such as charcoal which relates to the charcoal burning industry that existed in Croydon 400 years ago) and invisible ink to create imagined maps that are inspired by the maps from the borough archives. (edited)

// ABOUT HOLLY HENDRY

Holly Hendry (b.1990) lives and works in London. She has recently graduated from the Royal College of Art MA sculpture programme. Recent exhibitions include: Getting’ The Heart Ready, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2016), Identify Your Limitations,Acknowledge the Periphery, Vitrine, London (2016), Fruits of the Lum, Tzuzjj, CBSGallery, Liverpool (2016); Backwash,The Door, Rice & Toye, London, (2016); A Bad Policeman is Always Busy, Newcastle University Gallery, Newcastle(2016).
Solo exhibitions include: More and More,More is More, Bosse & Baum, London, (2015); VISITS, Curate Projects, London, (2015); and Hollow Bodies, Gallery North, Newcastle, (2014).

Image Credit // Gut Feelings (Swallow), 2016