Second-hand is the continuation of a two year collaboration with artist Eva Jones and residents from Look Ahead sites in Tower Hamlets and Newham in East London, with the previous accumulation of making to be within Sleeve Props, another sharing that occured last Autumn in 2024.
These weekly workshops have been responsive to the participants memories of doodling in old books as children and Tom Phillips book ‘A Humanent’ discovered in the library space at The Royal Academy of Arts.
Table runners were made in response to our workshops together and installed in the RA library on the tables used by visitiors using the space. These were gifted back to the group for them to use after the project. Moments from our making together were digitally scanned and photographed throughout the months and echoed the collage copy, cut and paste style scrapbooking we have made together.
A set of cards were also gifted to each resident containing images from the workshops, a mini exhibition that they could also carry and enjoy if moving through the building wasn’t possible for them. These behaved as an invitation to take on a treasure-hunt style interaction for the group to spot images during the day, like a game of spot the different or ‘snap’ in cards. 
See above the set of cards.
Considering how to distribute the instances of our making into exhibition contexts, we also planted some stickers of images close to the residents local areas, to encourage them to venture out into their nearby localities and to reaffirm their making outside of our sessions together.
Some examples of the second hand books that became collaged journals, containers for mark making and new stories to encounter.
