Visit Robson Cezar’s Studio In Bow

 

You are invited to visit Spitalfields artist Robson Cezar’s studio in Bow as part of Bow Arts Open Studios this Friday and Saturday, 20th & 21st June, at 181-183 Bow Road, E3 2SP. Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie went along this week as Robson was making final preparations, so that readers may have this sneak preview.

Robson has created a new artwork of 88 spinning tops made from bottletops which guests can enjoy spinning for themselves and take home for free afterwards as souvenirs. Each spinning top has words concealed underneath, like a fortune cookie or a cracker motto.

For this occasion, Robson has also produced an edition of five of his celebrated solar-powered recycled houses made out of boxes from Whitechapel Market, that can be seen below.

Every house is fitted with a solar panel. If you leave it on a window sill, it will charge in daylight, light up automatically at dusk and the light will go off at dawn. And they will do this more or less indefinitely. Robson has enjoyed employing the colours, printed lettering and images of fruit and vegetables on the boxes, and made windows from coloured mushroom crates.

As usual, these houses will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. So if you like to buy one of these house please drop a line to spitalfieldslife@gmail.com specifying which one you would like and we will supply payment details. They are £200 each.

These houses are sculptures not toys and we do not recommend them for children under the age of twelve.

 

Devising the words for the spinning tops

Robson sorting crates to make houses

House A (front)

House A (reverse)

House B (front)

House B (reverse)

House C (front)

House C (reverse)

House D (front)

House D (reverse)

House E (front)

House E (front)

Photographs copyright © Sarah Ainslie