At cobcourses.com jim and I love nothing better than restoring an ancient cob house or barn. Its a beautiful connection to all our history and endlessly fascinating. The different cob mixes we find that have clearly worked over hundreds of … Continue reading
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Cob pillars in the Obserber magazine 22 /August /2021 I had the time of my life working with Abbas Akhavan to produce these fabulous cob pillars at the chisenhale Gallery. Read all about it in the Observer below https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/22/abbas-akhavan-chisenhale-gallery-london-curtain-call-variations-on-a-folly-review-palmyra-syria … Continue reading
We are pretty sure that this Sunday the cob pillars I helped to make are to be featured in the observer culture magazine, that’s sunday the 22nd so look out … Kate is delighted to have worked with the artist … Continue reading
Listen here: https://therestartproject.org/podcast/cob-building/ for a new interview from Kate Edwards with David Pickering at the Restart Project. … Continue reading
During late June and early August 2021, Kate Edwards has been working on a collaboration with the artist Abbas Akhavan as the cob building expert for his installation at the Chisenhale Gallery in East London. Kate designed the cob construction processes for this cob reconstruction of the colonnade leading to the Palymra Arch in Syria, a 2000 year old historic monument destroyed by ISIS in 2015. The work explores issues of impermanence, cultural genocide, colonialism and iconoclasm.
Continue readingSo you’re getting married soon? And you’re thinking of a unique and fun idea for the stag or hen party? Then we have the ultimate day out for you and your friends. Come and learn to build a cob pizza … Continue reading
So the dates for our wood fired pizza oven building workshop are now live and places are filling up fast. Our one day course will show you how to source the materials you need to build and sculpt your own … Continue reading
Give someone a brilliant day out in 2021 learning to build a cob pizza oven and eating wood-fired pizza for lunch. With courses starting again in the Spring it will hopefully be a celebratory post pandemic day out to remember … Continue reading
We are experiencing unprecedented interest in our cob house /cob studio 4 day building course which is absolutely wonderful news. It seems these strange times have given people the time to reflect on how they go about their lives and … Continue reading
We’ve reduced participant numbers to 6 to ensure we can all space out well and the whole workshop is run outside – so we are as Covid safe as you can be. And the great news is the social distancing … Continue reading