Shatwell Farm Open Day – 17 July 2021

On the afternoon of Saturday 17 July, Shatwell Farm held its annual Open Day with a programme of socially-distanced events across the site.

In the archive, a pin-up of drawings, selected from the Drawing Matter collection by Nicholas Olsberg, explored how architects have approached the space in between buildings. The selection was also presented in a proposed exhibition space designed by Claire Oster during a teaching studio at Cornell earlier in the year.

The Shed at Shatwell, designed and built by 20 young architects led by Maria-Chiara Piccinelli and Corinna Dean.

The Open Day also celebrated the topping-off the shed constructed during Drawing Matter’s Shed at Shatwell Workshop. Led by Maria-Chiara Piccinelli (PiM.studio) and Corinna Dean (ARCA), over the preceding week a group of 20 workshop participants and collaborators designed and constructed a shed that reinterpreted an unbuilt design by James Gowan.

Across the site, Matchett & Page curated an exhibition titled ‘Sounds & Shapes’, which included two site-specific installations: a sound installation by Disinformation in one of the disused grain silos and a geometric patio-courtyard designed by Denman + Gould.

Sound installation by Disinformation in the grain silo.

Formation 2 by Denman+Gould installed outside the grain silo.

The geometric theme continued into the Haybarn gallery space with recent silkscreen prints that explore colour and shape by Lucy or Robert.