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PREVIOUS PROJECTS
2022
Resolutions 2022
Of Memory by Helena Ray
2021
Familiar Ground w/ Christy Thynne
Familiar Ground w/ Deborah Fielding (Online)
Familiar Ground w/ Andy Macdermott
Familiar Ground w/ Ciara Callaghan
Familiar Ground w/ Alice Boland-Rhodes
Lonely Numbers — Summer Nights #3
Lonely Numbers — Radio (28.08.21)
Familiar Ground w/ Alice Boland-Rhodes (Online)
Lonely Numbers — Summer Nights #2
Familiar Ground w/ Jonny Clapham (Online)
Familiar Ground w/ Saint Akua
Lonely Numbers — Radio (31.07.21)
Familiar Ground w/ Resolve & MKFF
Familiar Ground w/ Jonny Clapham
Lonely Numbers — Summer Nights #1
Matters of Interest x Big Shop Friday
2020
Psst. Print and Record Fair
Stronger Together by Okocha Obasi 💥️
Matters of Interest x Big Shop Friday
THE CLUNKER
The Elephant Room with Dylan Fox
Evening Class
What Is She? with NOHAT
Listen Here!
Starting Something #6
Lonely Numbers Radio Live 02
Hannah Wilson
Monoprinting with Sophie Atkins
Resolutions 2020 – Exhibition
Lonely Numbers Radio Live 01
WALL with Sophie Atkins ︎
Starting Something #5
Resolutions 2020
2019
Quiz: The Christmas with Jonny Clapham
This is an art scene – ORDER NOW
Feature – Dave Hilliard
Feature – Katie Ellen Fields
Starting Something #4
Resolutions 2019
2018
WALL ︎
Starting Something #3
Now on Soundcloud
Starting Something #2
Match Balls
Starting Something
Resolutions 2018
2017
Peppermint
Store Records & Ernest Herb
IF I SHOW YOU MINE!
Publication launch
NO HATS
Supper Clubs
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Our Last Friday events in the shop since 2019 have been kindly supported by funding from MK Council. We’re also thankful to Milton Keynes Arts Centre, MK Gallery and centre:mk for their continued encouragement and help.Big Shop Friday Limited is a registered non-profit limited by guarantee no. 11843214
I don’t day dream anymore
with Hannah Wilson
28 February 2020
Free, 7–11pm
For the Last Friday Hannah will be holding a life drawing activity where visitors will be invited to draw sculptures in the space, and make their own interpretations of the work.
“I am an artist from Milton Keynes, currently based in London, and my practice centres around the portrayal of women via painting and sculpture. My starting point is a combination of imagination and lived experience. The women are always drawn from imagination as opposed to life, and they channel my own feeling from diaristic fragments of writing recorded in my sketchbook. I like them to retain an element of elusivity, untethered to any one narrative so that the viewer is able to make their own interpretations.”
“The women in my work are strange figures with gaping nostrils and awkward limbs, whose attitudes often pull between the playful and the existential. The shape the figures take is large and imposing, but a softness remains through their expressions, looking out to the viewer.
In my work with sculpture I bring the women into space both as small-scale and life size figures. Their physicality is activated during exhibitions when life drawing workshops are held around them - through this act they are no longer static sculptures, but a catalyst for participatory practice between viewers. They take up space and present themselves as solid forms, challenging notions of a passive female subject.”