Sugar Oh Honey Honey

Alison Carlier's hybrid object - a silver sugar shaker top fused with antique speaker fabric - sits outside that retro cafe Harriet's. The evocative words come from Lynn Whitehead and Phil Barrett. 

Sugar Rock
 
"Come play, come play"
Your shape and shine say.
"I'm neat, petite - and...
I fit snug in your hand!"
 
Like the knob of a cane
You invite me again
"Rotate me
Elate me. 
Revolve me
Involve me.
Come, rattle and shake me
Go on, you won't break me
A shuffling beat
We'll make music so sweet."
 
As you make my palm whole
With your silvery knoll
We shake rattle and roll
Shake, rattle and roll.
 
Lynn Whitehead

Sugar Shaker

- to sweeten those covid blues.
(i.m. Peter Green and
Peter Green’s ‘Fleetwood Mac’)
 
Shake that sugar shaker,
you need to 
shake that sugar shaker,
come on and 
shake that sugar shaker,
you have to 
shake that sugar shaker,
so go and shake that sugar shaker,
cause everything sours sooner or later.

Phil Barrett

Alison Carlier has an MA in Drawing from Wimbledon College of Arts. Her practice is wide ranging, informed by her experience working in occupational therapy and with a particular interest in voice - she won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2014 for a sound piece. She was nominated for the Max Mara Prize for Women 2016, she was the grove artist in residence in 2015 and the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award Artist in 2016. Instagram @alisoncarlier Twitter @carlier_alison www.alisoncarlier.com

Lynn Whitehead started life as an actor/musician and worked all over the country for years. Later she side stepped into theatre-education working with the National Theatre, New Wolsey and Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds running youth theatre groups and working with community groups. She fell in love with storytelling and likes to collect and tell traditional stories from all round the world. She has an MA in playwriting. Twitter @LynnyWhitehead   Instagram @lynnwhitehead96

Phil Barrett originally trained as a visual artist. He has won prizes and commendations in a number of national competitions; has read, and led creative writing workshops, for adults and children, in 35 schools and 10 libraries. In 2017,2019 & 2020 he has had poems selected for Poems in the Waiting Room. He is a professional member of NAWE.