Freddie Robins will be exhibiting in Spacetime: awkward ;-) Curated and hosted by Grange Projects and Blackwater Polytechnic.

Spacetime: awkward ;-) It is a collaborative project by Blackwater Polytechnic and Grange Projects that responds to an accelerated and unstable world by building slowly, with skillful labour, friction and joyful imperfection. The stand works as a shared environment where polish gives way to presence, and where awkwardness becomes a way of looking harder, staying longer and making space for conversation. Be difficult.

Erskinehuset, Slakthusområdet (the former Meatpacking District)
Hallvägen 21
121 62 Johanneshov
Stockholm, Sweden

Opening hours:
Thursday 23 – Friday 24 April 14.00–20.00
Saturday 25 April 12.00–20.00
Sunday 26 April 12.00–18.00

Admission: 200 SEK
Seniors and students admission: 160 SEK
4-day pass incl Catalogue/Art Magazine: 600 SEK
Free admission up to 16 years

Exhibiting alongside Ben Coode-Adams, Cailin Cummins, Sophie Giller, Tilly Hawkins (Nukleopatra), Sara Impey, John Plowman, Sally Plowman, Plowman and Cummins & Nicola Streeton

Download Press Release here

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To register you place please contact katy@seetapateldance.org by 14th January 2026.

The Art Station in Saxmundham invites you to dive headfirst into a riotous, exhilarating new exhibition presented by the Anglian Embassy (Blackwater Polytechnic in collaboration with the Grange Projects) — two insanely imaginative collectives whose playful, hands-on spirit blasts straight through the barriers of art and expectation. Their impact far outstrips their size. No holds barred.

Saturday 4 – Saturday 25 October 2025
Open 10am – 4pm weekdays, 12pm – 4pm Saturdays, closed Sundays
The Art Station, 48 High Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1AB

Saturday 18 October 4pm – 6pm
Performances from Plowman and Cummins, Nukleopatra and Stuart Bowditch
The Old Bank, 24 High Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1AE

Opening party Friday 3 October 6pm – 8pm. All welcome

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Freddie Robins has won the prestigious Brenda M. King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles 2025, awarded by The Textile Society, for her essay Softness is Power: A feminist discussion and subversion of softness.

“Within this essay Robins explores and questions the art world’s acceptance of the ‘soft stuff’. Despite the resurgence of interest in textiles in recent years, and the more prevalent utilisation of textiles by ‘fine artists’ as well as ‘textile artists’ it seems that there is still a reluctance to accept and acknowledge the physical characteristics of textile work. This ‘debate’ is not new, it has been discussed in many forums, but more from the craft and textile perspectives than from the fine art perspective. Freddie Robins’ essay demonstrates that this investigation is valid and ongoing, providing an interesting and pertinent summary of ‘soft stuff’ and how it is viewed within the contemporary art world.”

The essay will be published in The Textile Society’s annual journal Text No.52.

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