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Haus-A-Rest

A zine shaped by artists, for the bold, the curious, and the uncompromising.
Haus-a-rest exists for the creatives who notice what others miss, who translate lived experience into striking images and fearless words. This is a space for the daring, the different, and the deeply authentic.

Each issue brings together work that resists the obvious, fresh perspectives, quiet rebellions, and art that moves without asking permission. We’re drawn to the unseen, the unfiltered, and the moments that linger.

Our Open Calls remain free and open to all.

They’re an invitation to share what’s been forming, to test new ideas, and to connect with a community rooted in curiosity and creative risk.

Step into the zine.
Let’s carry forward the voices that refuse to fade into the background.

Issue 67

A bumper issue combining the end of 2025 and a new beginning in 2026

This new year issue of Haus-a-rest brings together a rich and expansive body of work born from our recent open call, Unseen Perspective. After a brief pause in December, we return with a bumper issue, one shaped by reflection, renewed energy, and an overwhelming response from creatives across disciplines.

The works featured here have been unfolding across our social platforms over recent weeks: photography and writing that question the familiar, linger on what is often overlooked, and reframe the everyday through unexpected angles. Together, they form a collective portrait of seeing differently—of slowing down, shifting focus, and paying attention to what exists just beyond the obvious.

This issue marks both a continuation and a quiet reset. A moment to gather what emerged during our break, and to move forward with intention.


Unseen Perspective is not a single viewpoint, but many.
It lives in fragments, margins, reflections, interruptions, and subtle gestures. The creatives featured here explore visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, intimacy and distance—each offering their own way of looking, noticing, and revealing.

As a bumper issue, this release holds space for a wider range of voices and practices than usual. We invite you to take your time with it. Scroll slowly. Sit with the work. Let it unfold.


LOOKING AHEAD: PHYSICAL EXHIBITIONS

As Haus-a-rest continues to grow beyond the digital space, we are excited to begin developing physical exhibitions that bring our online community into real-world encounters.

Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing more about upcoming pop-ups, group shows, and collaborative exhibitions that reflect the ethos of the zine, intimate, thoughtful, and experimental. These exhibitions will spotlight selected works and creatives from our issues, creating new ways to experience the work in shared spaces.

Details will be announced soon.


As always, HAUS-A-REST remains a platform for experimental, independent, and boundary-pushing work.
This issue is a testament to the creative energy of artists who transform overwhelm into form, repetition into rhythm, and chaos into meaning.

Enter the issue. Explore the layers.

FOR THE GALLERY AND HERE FOR THE WRITER’S CORNER, AND BLOG News

Introducing the HAUS-A-REST Micro-Residency

Here we have the first two on our micro residency in their second month Kirsty & Francesca

This is a new space for reflection, experimentation, and artistic guidance

Alongside this issue, we’re excited to continue into the new year with our Micro-Residency, a small but intentional space for artists, writers, and creative thinkers who want to deepen their practice, expand their ideas, and receive thoughtful guidance along the way.

The residency isn’t tied to a specific location, it’s a flexible, supportive environment shaped around each participant’s needs. Whether you are at the beginning of a project, stuck in the middle, or simply seeking a clearer sense of direction, the micro-residency can provide:

  • Creative Advice,

  • Insight into process, artistic development, and sustaining momentum

  • Provocations and exercises to challenge habits, expand methods, and spark new thinking

  • Critique sessions that value generosity over hierarchy

  • Dialogue and reflection, because sometimes a conversation can unlock more than a month of solitude

  • Exposure through the zine and social channels, for our residents who wish to share work in progress

The HAUS-A-REST Micro-Residency is built on the belief that artists don’t always need grand studios, vast budgets, or months away from the world, they often need attention, exchange, and a context in which their ideas can breathe.

In a time of constant accumulation, of information, pressure, expectation, this residency offers a moment to sift, sharpen, and reimagine. It’s a place to sort through your creative overflow, to cultivate clarity, or to find excitement in the mess.

you can apply on our opportunities page.
Stay tuned, stay curious, and keep making.

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*News is now on the blog*

Dr Fox, PhD News

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Readings New Mural video clip

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Poet Peter Devonald Latest Publications

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New Studio news in Guildford

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Dr Fox, PhD News ☝️ Readings New Mural video clip ☝️ Poet Peter Devonald Latest Publications ☝️ New Studio news in Guildford ****

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This month we have 2 featured Artists

PHOTOGRAPHER SAPPHIRE GOSS

& ARTIST FIONA CAMPBELL

This issue’s resident creatives include our critical art writer Michaela Hall, our wordsmith poet Peter Devonald, and our editors and creators Nichola and Jenna

!! Calling Artists & Writers!!

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The next open call Theme for Issue 68 is

“SMALL ACTS”

“details to follow keep checking back this week to find out more”

 Feel free to get in touch via the form below with your Ideas & Questions.

 
 
// OPEN CALL // Art and written open call submissions on the theme of SMALL ACTS for Issue 68 of Haus-a-rest APPLY AT Haus-a-rest Zine — www.haus-a-rest.com IN THE OPPORTUNITIES TAB Deadline 5th February 2026 Small acts are often overlooked
// OPEN CALL // Art and written open call submissions on the theme of SMALL ACTS for Issue 68 of Haus-a-rest APPLY AT Haus-a-rest Zine — www.haus-a-rest.com IN THE OPPORTUNITIES TAB Deadline 5th February 2026 Small acts are often overlooked—quiet gestures, subtle resistances, daily rituals, moments of care, or fleeting decisions that ripple outward. They may be personal or political, intimate or communal, intentional or accidental. Together, these acts shape how we move through the world and how the world changes around us. This open call seeks artworks and written pieces that explore the power, poetry, complexity and nuance of small acts: acts of kindness, refusal, repair, or attention everyday gestures that carry meaning minor interventions that produce lasting impact quiet moments that resist spectacle small acts that have changed your art practice We welcome submissions in all media, including but not limited to visual art, photography, sculpture, printmaking, painting, collage, textile art, ceramics, video, sound, performance documentation, text-based work, and experimental practices. #artopencall #artsubmissions #artzine #kindness #smallart artistsoutward @nicholarodgers.artist @jennafoxartist @peterdevonald @michaela_hall_artist
HAUS-A-REST — NEW YEAR ISSUE 67 This new year issue of Haus-a-rest brings together a rich and expansive body of work born from our recent open call, Unseen Perspective. After a brief pause in December, we return with a bumper issue. This issue
HAUS-A-REST — NEW YEAR ISSUE 67 This new year issue of Haus-a-rest brings together a rich and expansive body of work born from our recent open call, Unseen Perspective. After a brief pause in December, we return with a bumper issue. This issue marks both a continuation and a quiet reset. A moment to gather what emerged during our break, and to move forward with intention. As a bumper issue, this release holds space for a wider range of voices and practices than usual. We invite you to take your time with it. Scroll slowly. Sit with the work. Let it unfold. As Haus-a-rest continues to grow beyond the digital space, we are excited to begin developing physical exhibitions that bring our online community into real-world encounters. Details will be announced soon. Thank you for being part of Haus-a-rest—whether you’ve been with us from the beginning or have just arrived. This issue is an invitation: to look again, to pause, and to remain open to what’s still unseen. @nicholarodgers.artist @jennafoxartist @peterdevonald @michaela_hall_artist @fionacampbellartist @sapphire_goss @kirstybunce.art @francesca_busca @lockwood.studios
// Issue 67 - Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Chloe Henderson www.chloehenderson.co.uk @SeaSlugChloe on Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, and Facebook. “Forest Bathing”. Description: I didn't understand what "forest bathin
// Issue 67 - Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Chloe Henderson www.chloehenderson.co.uk @SeaSlugChloe on Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, and Facebook. “Forest Bathing”. Description: I didn't understand what "forest bathing" was when I first heard the term, and I couldn't get my head around what people were up to washing themselves in the woodlands. So, in this photo series, I created my unseen perspective of what forest bathing might look like! #opencall #artistsoninstagram #emergingartist #photography #artzine @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 67 - Photography. The unseen perspective // Artist: Yoanna Walden https://yoannawalden.art @yoanna.mw “Restraint”. Description: The practice of physical restraint within mental hospitals presents significant ethical and repre
// Issue 67 - Photography. The unseen perspective // Artist: Yoanna Walden https://yoannawalden.art @yoanna.mw “Restraint”. Description: The practice of physical restraint within mental hospitals presents significant ethical and representational challenges. In this photograph, I employ superimposition as a visual strategy to address the difficulty of making such experiences perceptible without resorting to illustration or spectacle. The imagery reflects the disorientation, compression of agency, and fractured perception created through enforced restraint. This work forms part of “The Lunatics’ Common Room”, an ongoing photographic series that engages with the lives of individuals who were deprived of personal autonomy through involuntary confinement in mental asylums over the past three centuries. Rather than reconstructing institutional spaces, the series proposes an alternative conceptual site: a shared space situated outside institutional boundaries. Framed as an imagined “room of our own,” the work seeks to create a context in which historical experience, artistic response, and contemporary reflection can coexist. #opencall #artistsoninstagram #emergingartist #photography #artzine @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 67 - Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Louise Shaw http://louiseshaw.co/ @louiseshaw.artist “Bird Watching (1)” Description: A small wooden bird box modified with a mock telescope installed on a tree at various s
// Issue 67 - Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Louise Shaw http://louiseshaw.co/ @louiseshaw.artist “Bird Watching (1)” Description: A small wooden bird box modified with a mock telescope installed on a tree at various sites; in town and in woodland. Below the bird box is a sign reading ‘ssshh bird watching’. I made this during the intense Spring season of naturalists’ cameras filming up close and personal to nesting birds. It felt akin to uninvited paparazzi, so I turned the tables. #opencall #artistsoninstagram #emergingartist #photography #artzine @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 67 - Photography. The unseen perspective // Artist: Suzie Pindar The Naked Artist www.thenakedartist.co.uk www.thenakedartist.bigcartel.com @suziepindar “What Comes Next?” Description: I place my artwork outside, sometimes
// Issue 67 - Photography. The unseen perspective // Artist: Suzie Pindar The Naked Artist www.thenakedartist.co.uk www.thenakedartist.bigcartel.com @suziepindar “What Comes Next?” Description: I place my artwork outside, sometimes in locations in London, hiding in obscure places where the natural eye would not usually look. #opencall #artistsoninstagram #emergingartist #photography #artzine @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// Issue 67. Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Alison Manning alisonjagger_photography “Manufactured Innocence”. Description: A photograph that captures a pack of mass-produced suspended doll heads, existing outside the e
// Issue 67. Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Alison Manning alisonjagger_photography “Manufactured Innocence”. Description: A photograph that captures a pack of mass-produced suspended doll heads, existing outside the emotional narratives of finished toys. By capturing them in their raw, pre-assembled state, I wanted to expose the industrial reality behind manufactured innocence. The plastic wrap becomes a barrier and a lens. their identical faces and wide, unblinking eyes create a sense of discomfort, transforming something associated with childhood into something uncanny and unsettling. The image challenges viewers to reconsider familiarity, mass production and the quiet strangeness hidden within everyday commercial spaces. #opencall #artistsoninstagram #emergingartist #photography #artzine @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald
// OPEN CALL // Art and written open call submissions on the theme of SMALL ACTS for Issue 68 of Haus-a-rest APPLY AT Haus-a-rest Zine — www.haus-a-rest.com IN THE OPPORTUNITIES TAB Deadline 5th February 2026 Small acts are often overlooked HAUS-A-REST — NEW YEAR ISSUE 67 This new year issue of Haus-a-rest brings together a rich and expansive body of work born from our recent open call, Unseen Perspective. After a brief pause in December, we return with a bumper issue. This issue // Issue 67 - Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Chloe Henderson www.chloehenderson.co.uk @SeaSlugChloe on Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, and Facebook. “Forest Bathing”. Description: I didn't understand what "forest bathin // Issue 67 - Photography. The unseen perspective // Artist: Yoanna Walden https://yoannawalden.art @yoanna.mw “Restraint”. Description: The practice of physical restraint within mental hospitals presents significant ethical and repre // Issue 67 - Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Louise Shaw http://louiseshaw.co/ @louiseshaw.artist “Bird Watching (1)” Description: A small wooden bird box modified with a mock telescope installed on a tree at various s // Issue 67 - Photography. The unseen perspective // Artist: Suzie Pindar The Naked Artist www.thenakedartist.co.uk www.thenakedartist.bigcartel.com @suziepindar “What Comes Next?” Description: I place my artwork outside, sometimes // Issue 67. Photography. The Unseen Perspective // Artist: Alison Manning alisonjagger_photography “Manufactured Innocence”. Description: A photograph that captures a pack of mass-produced suspended doll heads, existing outside the e