Redbridge Green Fair

Join artist Darcy Turner and turn newspaper into solid Stixx® with his amazing machines.  Then help turn them into furniture or sculptures or even a house by binding together.

Darcy Turner is committed to reusing waste, old newspapers, to be precise. Trained at the London College of Furniture, he rolls papers into loose tubes, brushes them with a slick of wallpaper paste and feeds them through a home-made gizmo resembling an old washing mangle - reminiscent of a past mechnical era. The result is hard papier-mache ‘stixx’, which he binds together using cable ties. He’s a frequent visitor to schools, where he shows children how to make useful things from newspapers.

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