Urban Fringes

Stephen Turner and Jo Roberts created this web-site as the primary vehicle for sharing their collective research and experience of working on Urban Fringe project. Individual records can be found on their respective pages and any parallel paths detected in … Continue reading →

On Saturday October 27 eighteen essential ingredients available to blend into Eau de Bordure were presented to the public for testing in Chatham and the results are informing the composition of a final environmental solution from new parfumiers … Continue reading →

After the Eau de Bordure essence testing last week I left for a short vacation in Dubrovnik in Croatia and it was interesting to see this carved capital on a column to the entrance of the old Rector’s Palace … Continue reading →

My project – ‘Jo Roberts’ Personal Survey of the Urban Fringe in the region of the Deckle Edges’ has been a joy to do. The 70 ‘Maps of the Day that I daily Tweeted became obsessive, and seeing them all … Continue reading →

Faith, rescued from a fly tip and a metaphor for the waste and neglect around the edge of town, has been my muse for the duration of the Urban Fringe project. Today she visited the exhibition and felt forgiveness.

This is a little book/map that I have made of my Urban Fringe project. If you would like a copy I will be at the UCA gallery, Chatham 10-12 Sat 27th Nov, or DM me via Twitter @JoVicRob or email … Continue reading →

Faith approves the distillation of Golden Samphire at Crown Quay for its particularity to place.

Cypress leaves from Crown Quay were distilled to create one of eighteen environmental solutions (currently on show at the UCA Gallery in The Pentagon Centre, Chatham). With wild thyme and fennel, it forms one of six useful incantations against waste and … Continue reading →

Stephen Turner requests the pleasure of your company to test Eau de Bordure a new sense of the fringelands distilled from distinctive local flora. Many aromatic plants from the urban edges have been sampled to formulate the essence of the … Continue reading →

Faith visiting the UCA Gallery in Chatham’s Pentagon Centre to examine Stephen Turner’s installation of different flora gathered from specific peripheral locations around Swale and Medway.

Bike Ride round Milton Creek Sittingbourne Artist + bike ride + Sittingbourne Urban Fringe = a couple of hours of fun and discussion. Do join me.

Bike Ride to Rochester Riverside Artist + bike ride + exploration of Urban Fringe = a couple of hours of fun and discussion. Do join me.

Faith Adrift beside the Queen’s Stairs, Chatham Dockyard +51˚ 23′ 37.81″ +0˚ 31′ 30.87″

Exciting times! The 67 pieces of my Urban Fringe Herbarium have been safely installed ready for the show. Wonderful to see the beautiful flora that I have gathered from the Urban Fringe places in their entirety.

Both sides of Milton Creek just a few hundred metres from the waste recycling centre and a scrap metal plant, these sorely test ones Faith in a better future.

Faith, with Hope and Charity were urged to break out from the fly tipped spoil heap at Crown Quay that they shared with a bleached to blue Pointer Sister’s record sleeve. Here they are on location at the Queen’s Steps … Continue reading →

Part of this commission from Kent Architecture was about meaningfully engaging with a ‘community’. I am based in Warwickshire, and the project is based in the Medway Towns. This is how I work, physically going to places, researching and exploring … Continue reading →

Faith went back to Motney Hill to inspect a new pile of fly tipped refuse. One hundred yards down a farm track some thoughtless fool has despoiled Motney Hill with a van load of rubbish from a home improvement. Old … Continue reading →