As Far As The Eye Can Travel

16/10/2024

“Raft” is almost ready to meet you,,, meanwhile here is the trailer to whet your appetite!
Message me for info about a very special preview screening next month!
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"Raft - A London Story" is a musical haunting, a love letter to a city and its people, and a celebration of friendship and art as the bricks and mortar of a particular kind of raft – one that is well equipped to float even as the waters rise.
Part "Wizard of Oz" part "Wings of Desire", it is a portrait of a place, its shelters, and the characters that reside within, a contemporary fairytale seeking new forms of meaning and belonging at a time of displacement and erasure.
Featuring: Bird Radio, John Bently, Jeremy Reed, Jo Roberts, Nawroz Oramari, Helena Hunter and Mark Peter Wright, James Hesford, Brian Catling, Gareth Evans, Sukhdev Sandhu, Jupiter John, Roger K Burton, Chiara Ambrosio, The Horse Hospital, Bookartbookshop and the river Thames. Funded through public money by Arts Council England

"Raft - A London Story" is a musical haunting, a love letter to a city and its people, and a celebration of friendship and art as the bricks and mortar…

22/09/2024

Final call for my online class, beginning tonight at 10pm UK time! If you ever wanted to join me, here is your chance!

5-week online class via Zoom Sundays, September 22 – October 20, 2024 5 - 7 pm ET (NYC time); 10 pm - 12 am (UK time) Admission: $145 Patreon Members / $160 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded those unable to attend live "The bird sings best on his famil

20/09/2024

Dear friends, my online class for Morbid Anatomy, begins this Sunday! This is the last time I'll be teaching this class for a while so this is your chance!

5-week online class via Zoom Sundays, September 22 – October 20, 2024 5 - 7 pm ET (NYC time); 10 pm - 12 am (UK time) Admission: $145 Patreon Members / $160 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded those unable to attend live "The bird sings best on his famil

16/09/2024

I am thrilled to present to you my new feature film “RAFT A London Story”, coming very soon!! There will be a very special preview screening of the film in London ahead of its official release, on November 2nd, with live performances by John Bently , Mikey Kirkpatrick and many more. If you would like to attend message me or email me- very limited numbers, first come first serve!
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"Raft - A London Story" is a musical haunting, a love letter to a city and its people, a fairytale, and above all a celebration of friendship and art as the bricks and mortar of a particular kind of raft – one that is well equipped to float even as the waters rise.
At once a portrait of a place, its shelters, and the characters that reside within, it is ultimately a contemporary fable seeking new forms of meaning and belonging at a time of displacement and erasure.

Funded through public money by

13/09/2024

Very happy to be teaching my class one more time for Morbid Anatomy, we set off on Sunday 22nd and there are still a few places left to join me on this adventure!

5-week online class via Zoom Sundays, September 22 – October 20, 2024 5 - 7 pm ET (NYC time); 10 pm - 12 am (UK time) Admission: $145 Patreon Members / $160 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded those unable to attend live "The bird sings best on his famil

28/11/2023

The first edition of my photo Tarot Deck is almost sold out! Thank you to all of you who bought one, and in so doing generously supported my work. A handful of decks left- if you would like one, for you os as an auspicious Xmas gift, now is the time!

22 cards, high quality photographic printing, smooth soft-touch finish, 7x12cm Photographic tarot deck featuring the 22 Major Arcana as...

24/11/2023

Thank you so much to all of you who have supported my Constellation Fundraiser! Still time to join, and remember you can use the code FREEPICKUP at checkout to collect locally from me and avoid shipping costs. THANK YOU ONE AND ALL!

1 copy of The Book Of Raft, 1 copy of The Girl With The Sea For A Dress (published by Child be Strange), 1 original limited edition print...

23/11/2023

Raft returns to The Horse Hospital this Xmas!
Sunday December 17th, 4-10pm, join us!
Featuring:

The Book Of Raft book launch

Mikey Kirkpatrick's Mummers' Play and Broom Dancing

John Bently and Bonesandtheaft- LIVE

Performances, words and images by Sukhdev Sandhu, Stephen Watts, Victor Rees- and many more friends tbc.

A special Xmas market featuring painted amulets, edible charms, and anything else you might need to shed some light through the winter months.

Join us too as we wassail the pillars of The Horse Hospital, this beloved temple of ours, to thank it for the years of sheltering, sanctuary, and outright joy and fun it has brought to us all in the last three decades!

Raft returns to The Horse Hospital this Xmas, bringing a night of simple light, blessings, birthday celebrations, live performances and wassailing – a special midwinter thanksgiving to celebrate everything that continues to grow, defiantly, and again

20/11/2023

New books coming out soon, along with my brand new feature film early next year! If you can, please consider supporting my Constellation Fundraiser, your help makes all the difference at this crucial time!

1 copy of The Book Of Raft, 1 copy of The Girl With The Sea For A Dress (published by Child be Strange), 1 original limited edition print...

30/09/2023

We set off tomorrow, a few spaces still left here, join me! https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/pruning-the-family-tree-storytelling-from-the-bones-or-turning-biography-into-art-a-live-online-class-with-artist-chiara-ambrosio-beginning-april-23

Back by popular demand beginning October 1, join us online for Pruning the Family Tree: Storytelling from the Bones, or Turning Biography into Art with artist Chiara Ambrosio. Learn more and register at bit.ly/familytreeart.

Join visual artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio on a journey to transform personal history and family trauma into art, seeking catharsis through making, letting the hands mend and give voice to the unspeakable.

We all come from somewhere, and often our journeys lead us far away from our point of origin until we forget it altogether, through necessity or circumstance.

As we move and grow, we often look back—in wonder, fear or anxiety—towards the landscapes of our childhood. Sometimes we see bright worlds of innocence, but often too we encounter the many phantoms that follow us around and cast shade over our lives.

Both the light and the dark form our biography, and if harnessed constructively, these can yield great growth and creativity.

Many cultures share the belief that it is fundamental to return to the family tree to heal, understanding that, while keeping the roots watered, we also need to prune those fronds so that the light can reach us where we stand, help us understand more about ourselves, and grow.

In this five week practical course, Chiara will draw on elements of her own artistic practice, alongside that of other artists and authors who have dealt with this rich material, to offer insights and strategies on how to turn our own biography into art, a personal quest that will lead us under our own canopies to see what grows there.

Chiara Ambrosio is a London-based filmmaker, visual artist and curator, working with the moving image, photography, painting, sound and printed matter to explore the ways in which we perceive, remember, articulate and preserve personal and collective histories and senses of place, and how we may construct new rituals within secular societies through art.

Image by Chiara Ambrosio

30/09/2023

Back by popular demand beginning October 1, join us online for Pruning the Family Tree: Storytelling from the Bones, or Turning Biography into Art with artist Chiara Ambrosio. Learn more and register at bit.ly/familytreeart.

Join visual artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio on a journey to transform personal history and family trauma into art, seeking catharsis through making, letting the hands mend and give voice to the unspeakable.

We all come from somewhere, and often our journeys lead us far away from our point of origin until we forget it altogether, through necessity or circumstance.

As we move and grow, we often look back—in wonder, fear or anxiety—towards the landscapes of our childhood. Sometimes we see bright worlds of innocence, but often too we encounter the many phantoms that follow us around and cast shade over our lives.

Both the light and the dark form our biography, and if harnessed constructively, these can yield great growth and creativity.

Many cultures share the belief that it is fundamental to return to the family tree to heal, understanding that, while keeping the roots watered, we also need to prune those fronds so that the light can reach us where we stand, help us understand more about ourselves, and grow.

In this five week practical course, Chiara will draw on elements of her own artistic practice, alongside that of other artists and authors who have dealt with this rich material, to offer insights and strategies on how to turn our own biography into art, a personal quest that will lead us under our own canopies to see what grows there.

Chiara Ambrosio is a London-based filmmaker, visual artist and curator, working with the moving image, photography, painting, sound and printed matter to explore the ways in which we perceive, remember, articulate and preserve personal and collective histories and senses of place, and how we may construct new rituals within secular societies through art.

Image by Chiara Ambrosio

18/09/2023

Saturday was a joyous day of celebration as I presented As Far As The Eye Can Travel at the Tabletop Museums at the Art Workers Guild in London's Bloomsbury, a wonderful, poetic, and idiosyncratic yearly appointment presenting personal collections from people's homes and imaginations, dealing with everything from the mundane to the surreal and back, each collection a witty, moving, enchanting testament to the stories that we weave in order to illuminate our lives. It was very moving for me to lay all 91 zines onto a table, side my side, and consider how 7 years may feel like a blink (fit on a tabletop, in fact!) and yet each one of these little books contains multitudes- of feelings, places, encounters, ripples, triggers, instances of serendipity, spells, friendship, longing, remembrance- and opens infinite vistas.
If you would like to subscribe, and receive one zine a month in the post from me, you can do so here:
https://asfarastheeyecantravel.com/
Nothing is for granted in these hard times, so my gratitude is even greater!

As Far As The Eye Can Travel is a monthly publication of pocket journeys: geographies of the mind, topographies of the soul and physical excavations, as far as the eye can - and will - travel.