I shared a list of seven small publications and pages with a concern for horticulture and a focus on flowers. I have enjoyed these over the past years and found them to be nurturing. Some of these titles are in French, others in English, most have translations or exits from translations. Click here to continue reading.
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✿ Hands off the phone and in the soil ✿
A limited-edition organic cotton T-shirts series by Poetic Pastel Press, with design by Alyssia Lou and illustration by myself. Now available on Everpress.
Profits from these T-shirts’ sales will support the following two Poetic Pastel initiatives; The Drawing - Gardening Club and Poetic Pastel’ Seven Kings Gardening Club. While the first is open to possibilities, the second is conceptualised for the residents of Ilford (England). The two endeavours, which celebrate togetherness and life offline, are based and inspired by Veganic gardening practices and are free community-based projects. Thank you very much for your support ♡.
An outtake from the short film Avec ce qui reste (2021).
Avec ce qui reste
Pauline Simonet & Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck
Ravisius Textor
Nevers, France
16.01 - 06.03.2021
Design by the students of Ésaab Nevers, under the supervision of Thierry Chancogne.
Avec ce qui reste, With what is left in French, is a short film currently on view at Ravisius Textor in Nevers - France, on the occasion of the exhibition of Pauline Simonet and myself.
Design by Alyssia Lou & Original soundtrack by Jatinder Singh Durhailay.
For further information about this exhibition, please click here (EN) and here (FR).
An introduction to my practice was published on Everyday Object (Taiwan) in November 2020. My husband, Jatinder Singh Durhailay, took this portrait during one of our frequent walks in Epping Forest.
Special thanks to the team of Pon Ding in Taipei.
A look inside the book Do Insects Play ?, published in 2019 by Chose Commune.
‘Do Insects Play?’ is an insight into French artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck’s playful and mindful practice, one that is frequently informed by the environment in which she finds herself. The artworks contained in this book are a curated selection of soft and vibrant collages from the ongoing series Cocooning – composed of various found papers, paintings and textiles, along pieces from To End is to Start, a new body of works created out of repurposed cotton fibres and water. The pieces have all been produced during a 2018 – 19 residency in South India where Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck deepened her knowledge and practice of hand papermaking. A short story by the artist is presented alongside the artworks, appearing as a gentle melody dancing throughout the pages.
Analog Diary : Poney Horse at Home. August 2020 - 35mm colour film.
A short film capturing my solo exhibition The Things I made at Nidi Gallery in Tokyo, 2020. Thank you for the photographs Kenji Kagawa.
From the exhibition The Things I Made - Nidi Gallery, Tokyo 2020. Photo by Kenji Kagawa.
Analog Diary : Tea with Arisa Shimizu as published in Journal du Thé - Chapter 3. Tokyo, Japan, Autumn 2019 - 35mm colour film.
Anemone Hupehensis - 2020. Pencil on English paper, 29.7 x 21 cm.
Analog Diary : A stroll in Cambridgeshire. England, August 2020 - 35mm colour film.
La nuit dans la forêt. Series Cocooning, 2020. Tea wrapper, pencil and found paper collage on paper collage - 21 x 14.9 cm. For further information please contact Tappan.