Really thrilled to have collaborated with three fellow Royal Society of Sculptors members on our forthcoming exhibition ITERATE. STRANGE PARADE 123 Evelina Road, Nunhead, London SE15 3HB 4-13 Sept 2026 Fri–Sat–Sun 11am–6pm All welcome.
Jane Hoodless
@janehoodless.bsky.social
Sculptor, fabricator and narrator inspired by the criminal, the cultural and the curious. www.janehoodless.com
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Really thrilled to have collaborated with three fellow Royal Society of Sculptors members on our forthcoming exhibition ITERATE. STRANGE PARADE 123 Evelina Road, Nunhead, London SE15 3HB 4-13 Sept 2026 Fri–Sat–Sun 11am–6pm All welcome.
Their tiny wings carry the future of our planet. Protect bees. Plant more flowers. Avoid harmful pesticides. Together, we can keep Earth blooming for generations to come. Let them live. Because when bees thrive, life thrives.
Bee or Hoverfly on a Yellow Flower
ALT: Bee or Hoverfly on a Yellow Flower
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‘She kneels beneath the huge oak tree, And in silence prayeth she.’ ~ Christabel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Oak Trees, Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer, 1828.
This Wednesday, I'll be giving an informal talk about my practice, alongside theatre director & dramaturg, Rachel Warr. All welcome! Wednesday 1 July 7–9pm Upstairs at The Devereux: 20 Devereux Court, London WC2R 3JJ Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pulling-st... #TickBirdAndRhino
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'. Spot on. They inflate investment by capitalising part of interest, repair/maintenance cost. Govt says Thames Water is worth £21bn. KKR wouldn't pay £4bn. Govt must enforce environmental laws, bankrupt them. Nationalise.
Feargal Sharkey rubbishes key argument for not nationalising water industry
Campaigners have stepped-up pressure on the government to bring the crisis hit water industry back into public ownership
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The complete quartet: FOUR POCKETS FOR SEASONAL FORAGERS, hand-embroidered tie-on pockets displaying flowers, seeds, roots, berries and leaves according to each season.
#BookwormSat 📖 In Appalachian folklore, low-flying crows signal coming illness. A crow calling three times over a house foretells death. 🐦⬛Crows singing before other birds means rain. 🎨 Vincent van Gogh – Wheatfield with Crows (1890)
Mummified remains of a dog from Egypt, resembling Anubis. The number of animals mummified increased rapidly during the Late and Ptolemaic Period, perhaps a demonstration of Egyptian self-identity or a sign of the times and people needing all the help they can get 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology
I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.
One of the most amazing apotropaic markings I've ever seen is carved into the font at St. George's Church, Clun. This intricate hexafoil pattern invoked protection wherever it was and protected against maleficent spirits and ill intent. #apotropaic #folklore #history #churchcrawling #churches
Timed to coincide with #Beltane – the beginning of SUMMER – the final of my FOUR POCKETS FOR SEASONAL FORAGERS. Embroidered with wild strawberries, blackberries, St John's wort, bilberries, and dandelion.
Continuing FOUR POCKETS FOR SEASONAL FORAGERS with SPRING, for which I embroidered cow parsley, chamomile, sweet violet, & nettle. While making, I imagined these tie-on pockets being worn by someone to carry and identify healing and edible plants as they ventured through the woods season by season.
The next of my FOUR POCKETS FOR SEASONAL FORAGERS is WINTER. Hand-embroidered cleavers, sweet chestnuts, chickweed, oyster mushrooms, & hairy bittergrass. There is a long & sexist history around the lack of pockets in women's clothing, with the tie on pocket, rising to popularity in the C17th.
Being into plants/ natural remedies/ folkloric stuff (plus the social history of pockets), I recently conceived FOUR POCKETS FOR SEASONAL FORAGERS & learnt a little more about foraging while embroidering them. I started the cycle with AUTUMN, & stitched poke root, burdock, poke berries, & hawthorn.
Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...
Wes Streeting: Trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS - Foxglove
Wes Streeting: trigger the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS. ADD YOUR NAME NOW!
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The words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants.
Crazy patchwork quilt I made at the end of last year. Given that, in addition to handsewing all the pieces, it is covered with embroidery, I'd expected it to take me months – but I stitched like a demon and completed it in seven weeks!
This #findsfriday, we are sharing with you one of three leather shoes that were found in Avebury in 2025, concealed in a wall of a house. Wiltshire Council's Conservation & Museums Advisory Service then worked to conserve the shoes for our collection, creating bespoke mounts to stabilise the shoes.
Only a couple of days to go till the supermarkets start selling Easter eggs… #SeasonalFayre
Unknown Young Man at his Office Desk, 1541 #northernrenaissance #hansholbein
The progress of the oak trees I am growing hydroponically in my kitchen. One acorn has sprouted two ‘trunks’. The tallest is 20cm - not including those beautiful roots!
Final weekend! Friday-Saturday-Sunday 11-6.
Jane Hoodless@janehoodless.bsky.social · 8mo agoI am delighted to be part of THE KRAMPUS HAS A CHANGE OF HEART which opens tonight @strange.parade 123 Evelina Road, Nunhead SE15 3HB. Private View: Friday 5th December, 6.30 – 8.30pm Exhibition Dates: Friday 5th – Sunday 14th December Open Hours: Friday – Sunday (11am – 6pm)
