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Callout: The Hobby Cave

What’s your favourite hobby? Join an exciting new project from Hetain Patel and Artangel by submitting your favourite hobby here.

A neon green background with the following text: I spend my free time:_____________. pursuing my favourite hobby. bookbinding. making miniatures. crocheting toys. sewing costumes. reupholstering furniture. carving stamps. playing brass.

Be part of a new project

Award-winning artist Hetain Patel invites you to join The Hobby Cave, the loudest presentation of our quiet pastimes.

Factory International are excited to join a network of 13 partnering organisations across the UK, led by Artangel to assemble an ambitious celebration of everyday creativity and self-expression.

From makers and modifiers to collectors and crafters, members of the public are invited to share details of their favourite hobby and be part of this audacious multi-location project.

The Hobby Cave will unite en masse objects that have been painstakingly created by people from all corners of the UK, around the commitments of daily life. But first, we want to hear from you!

What’s your favourite hobby? Join the project by submitting your favourite hobby here.

You can fill in the form online or download a PDF version and email it to creativeengagement@factoryinternational.org

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About Hetain Patel

Hetain Patel is an award-winning British-Gujarati artist and filmmaker. The act of making objects by hand has always been close to this artist’s heart. Whether converting his first car into a real life Transformer robot or creating his own Spiderman suit at his kitchen table, a number of his celebrated artworks combine joyful childhood obsessions with serious reflections on identity politics and power dynamics.

The handmade objects he creates in his work are painstakingly produced and tip a nod to the manual labour often carried out by migrants, while their hybridity points towards the new possibilities that emerge when convention is defied. The Hobby Cave is Patel’s most ambitious and far-reaching project to date.

Credits

Commissioned and produced by Artangel.

In partnership with

Factory International, Manchester; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; Museum of Making, Derby Museums Trust; National Festival of Making with Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Barnsley Civic; Inverness Museum and Art Gallery; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; CCA Derry~Londonderry; Hospitalfield, Arbroath; Tate St Ives.

Supported by Artangel's Guardian Angels. With thanks to Creative Lives.

Artangel is generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England, and by the private patronage of The Artangel International Circle, Special Angels, and The Company of Angels.

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