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Urban Alchemy explores the material stories and processes of urban change through imaginative salvage and chemical print experiments. Roofing zinc becomes etching plate from which portraits of those removing this zinc from the rooftops of London's ever changing skyline emerge. Slate and bricks become ink and plywood hoardings are transformed through woodcut.  

The project is the work of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Chemistry Leverhulme artist in residence and Urban Lab steering committee member Hilary Powell. A book of these stories and experiments will be launched in the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê construction workers canteen with an associated exhibition of prints moving out onto the surrounding hoardings. The experimentation continues with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Making's .ÌýÌý

Urban Alchemy Book Launch Wednesday 24th June, 5-9pm -  Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Construction Welfare Building canteen, (adjacent to Bloomsbury Theatre) Gordon Street, WC1A 0AH .

Alternative Stone Lithography masterclass Thursday 25th June - Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Making, Malet Place, WC1E 7JE. .

Participate in giant woodcut and brick ink making Saturday 27th June, 1-5pm - Urban Alchemy skip and roadroller printing at the Festival of Stuff streetextravaganza. Malet Place, WC1E 7JE. Open to all and free.

Thanks to: Leverhulme Trust, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Chemistry, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Urban Laboratory, East London Printmakers, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Grand Challenge for Sustainable Cities, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Anthropology and the Journal of Material Culture, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Estates and Sustainability teams, and Institute of Making. Urban Alchemy is an associated project of .

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