Community Projects

11th Annual Bermondsey Festival, London

Costumes and headpieces

Thematic head pieces representing 5 key attributes the popular area is known for: Fashion & Textiles, Art & Crafts, Food & Drink, Architecture & Design and Parklife.

Vintage and found materials. Worn by performance group @PombaGirls Pomba Girls, London.

Constructed with used thread spools, 1930s wooden shoe trees, vintage faux rununculus flower heads, central copper plate adapted from broken vintage necklace, discarded fake foliage.

Vintage finds sourced in local area.

Social Fabric Initiative for mental health and wellbeing

Social Fabric was developed by Tyler Moorehead as a community arts collaboration platform for exploring improvements to mental and emotional health through art workshops, events and interventions.

The collaboration was designed to highlight the importance of creativity in mental health recovery, with Tyler curating a programme of art events, as well as upholstery workshops.

Developed with and for people with lived experience of mental health, including the late founder of Dragon Cafe, Sarah Wheeler, Social Fabric aimed to engage with people ‘of all mental experience'.

The project was supported by the Guys & St Thomas' Hospital Charity and Maudsley Charity. and has been awarded funding from the London Evening Standard’s Dispossessed Fund.

Dragon Cafe photos courtesy Liz Gorman photography, London @lizgorman

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Special collaboration labels were designed by Ellie Good @EllieDoubleYolk based on a community member’s winning drawing. Labels were handmade by award winning embroidery artist, Jacky Puzey, @JackyPuzey, on vintage orange silk fabric offcuts.

Special collaboration labels were designed by Ellie Good @EllieDoubleYolk based on a community member’s winning drawing. Labels were handmade by award winning embroidery artist, Jacky Puzey, @JackyPuzey, on vintage orange silk fabric offcuts.

Tired wing chairs from healthcare facilities were donated to London-based charity, Mental Fight Club, for upholstery workshops at their popular ‘Dragon Cafe’ arts programme.

Tired wing chairs from healthcare facilities were donated to London-based charity, Mental Fight Club, for upholstery workshops at their popular ‘Dragon Cafe’ arts programme.

The cafe welcomes more than 200 regular participants to its south London hub each week for imaginative, high quality events and nutritious vegetarian food, free to all.

The cafe welcomes more than 200 regular participants to its south London hub each week for imaginative, high quality events and nutritious vegetarian food, free to all.

Chairs were recovered in donated African wax print fabrics.

Chairs were recovered in donated African wax print fabrics.

Social Fabric @Dragon Cafe: A Handmade Recovery aimed to provide community connection and skills training to allow members to be involved in preparations for fundraising activities to support a much loved and respected programme.

Social Fabric @Dragon Cafe: A Handmade Recovery aimed to provide community connection and skills training to allow members to be involved in preparations for fundraising activities to support a much loved and respected programme.

@poetrylawyer performing in a finished chair at the launch event.

@poetrylawyer performing in a finished chair at the launch event.

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