Creating Community at Artist Studio The Carousel
Have you spotted the new faces in town? The vibrantly-coloured, imaginatively shaped characters have brightened up the corner of Hockley Street, representing the creative community you can find inside the curved building below. They are the new faces of The Carousel , a multi-disciplinary artist's studio… The hub was once a pram shop, and was more recently owned by Nottingham Writers Studio. But now, The Carousel is a space where architects, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, writers, ceramists, printmakers, painters and others work away above a hot pink-painted floor. Together they brighten a previously gloomy part of town with an overflowing pot of artistic ideas and a synergy which creates a real 'get stuff done' type of energy. The Carousel crew's dedication to doing things differently with their do-it-yourself attitude is starting to turn heads (quite literally, with their new mural created by artist and illustrator Super Freak). For example, learning how t
