Haus-A-Rest

A Zine Made by Artists, for the Bold and Brilliant.
We’re here for the makers, the ones who turn the unnoticed into narrative, who spin raw life into jaw-dropping visuals and fearless words. This is a space for the daring, the different, and the deeply authentic.

Each month, we spotlight the unconventional, the unseen, the unfiltered, and the unforgettable. Think rebellious stories, fresh perspectives, and art that doesn’t ask for permission.

Got something stirring inside you?
Our Open Calls are free, for everyone and are your stage. Share your vision, break the mold, and connect with a community that thrives on boundary-pushing brilliance.

Step into the zine. Let’s amplify the voices that refuse to be ignored.

Issue 63

Graffiti Art

A Curated Collection of Work by Writers and Artists

Graffiti is the untamed handwriting of the city’s soul, a refusal to disappear quietly. It lives on train cars, school desks, abandoned buildings, in alleyways and along motorways. It speaks in spray paint, ink, stickers, and scratched initials. Sometimes it shouts. Sometimes it whispers. But it always says:

“I was here, and I matter.”

This month we began with an open call for work that lives in the tension between beauty and defiance, between visibility and erasure. We asked for graffiti: not just the art itself, but the ideas that grow from it. The stories. The names. The anger. The joy. The acts of protest and the acts of care.

Inside, you’ll find contributions from street artists, writers, poets, documentarians, drifters and dreamers, thinkers and makers. Some are tagging walls. Some are tagging the edges of language. All of them are using graffiti, whether literally or symbolically, as a form of decoration, identity, resistance, and radical self-expression.

This issue is a celebration of unfiltered voice. No permission asked. No curating for comfort. Just truth, layered thick like paint on a city wall.

The Editors

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

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News is now on the blog

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Readings New Mural video clip

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Poet Peter Devonald Latest Publications

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Dr Fox, PhD New ☝️ Readings New Mural video clip ☝️ Poet Peter Devonald Latest Publications ☝️

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This month’s feature is Artist

TEROX

This issue’s resident creatives include our Graphic novel bookworm Mildred Burchette-Vass, 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 for Issue 64 is Themed

“Changing Patterns”

We are seeking artists and writers for our next online exhibition and publication, themed “Changing Patterns.” This open call invites work that engages with the concepts of whether it is possible to change or adapt ourselves and others, and break free from performativity and the discourse that surrounds us.

For this open call, we are seeking art and writing that explores this theme links below.

Follow this link to enter our next free call out …

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

// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // For four years I have been searching ways to change my patterns, to push against self imposed artistic boundaries and tap into versions of me that could create alternative work. I discovered that by using alter egos and relenquishing control to them by writing their narrative I could generate new work that was different to my typical practice. This installation is by my alter ego @eva_ava_artist It explores the imposed boundaries and discourse we follow by the performativity of how we dress our children. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers

// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // With this painting, I am exploring the possibility of transformation within systems of performativity and power. This theme resonates deeply with me—not just intellectually, but personally and urgently. I am currently incarcerated. Within this institution, I have had to confront, question, and challenge the very structures that have shaped and confined me. Michel Foucault’s assertion that “Power is everywhere” rings powerfully true when your daily existence is defined by the overt mechanisms of control: surveillance, punishment, and erasure. And yet, even in this environment, I search for the cracks in the system—small moments of resistance, creation, and connection that allow for agency, however fragile. This is my wiggle room. My artwork reflects this struggle and this hope. Inspired by the notion of changing patterns—not as rebellion for its own sake, but as a mode of resilience—I use reclaimed materials and layered techniques to visualise transformation. It is an act of refusal: to be flattened, silenced, or reduced. It is also an act of belief: in humility, heart, and the persistent possibility of change. This current theme speaks directly to my lived experience and artistic inquiry, and I hope the work may contribute meaningfully to the discourse you're curating. I remain deeply committed to exploring the intersections of power, identity, and freedom through both visual and sonic practices—and to connecting with platforms like yours that are open to voices from the margins. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers

// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Yuliia Tarnovska @yuliiaartist Spin Cycle Chaos Description: Spin Cycle Chaos reflects on the feeling of being trapped in cycles that are hard to escape. The figure in the painting is caught in a restless swirl, echoing the way daily life can sometimes feel like a loop, work, responsibility, and expectations that keep repeating no matter how much we want to break free. The image takes inspiration from something very ordinary, a washing machine cycle. What is normally a background routine becoming a metaphor for the bigger patterns we live within, social rules, family roles, or personal habits that keep turning over and over. There is a sense of motion and turbulence, but also a question of whether that chaos could lead to change. Using acrylic on canvas, I worked with layered brushstrokes and contrasts in tone to create both movement and tension. Some areas feel smooth and flowing, while others are broken and sharp, suggesting the push and pull between comfort in routine and the desire to disrupt it. Within the “Changing Patterns” theme, Spin Cycle Chaos asks whether we can ever truly step outside the structures we grow up in, or whether freedom comes from finding new meaning within them. It captures both the weight of repetition and the possibility of breaking through it. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers

// Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Artist: Natasha Tresadern-jones @SomethingTeariffic Audacitea Description: This work forms part of an ongoing series exploring the outward manifestation of emotion through female figures, each embodying a distinct emotional state, in the series so far, there are Audacitea (boldness), Defiantitea (unapologetic resistance), and Dominicitea (embodied supremacy). The series engages with the theme of Changing Patterns by interrogating the ways women navigate and sometimes break societal scripts imposed upon them. Drawing on the notion that “power is everywhere,” these figures are not passive subjects of the discourse, but active disruptors. They embody the possibility of altering ingrained behaviours, challenging performative roles, and asserting agency within entrenched systems. The use of tea as a medium is deliberate. It is humble, domestic, and culturally loaded, previously, the artist explored themes associated with pause, hospitality, and tradition, but here it becomes an instrument of transformation. The organic stains, resembling ancient maps, evoke personal and collective journeys towards self-definition. Each mark carries the weight of ritual and repetition, yet hints at deviation and change. In Audacitea, the figure’s stance channels courage in the face of expectation, and flame-like hair visualises the intensity of suppressed emotions bursting into visibility. Also captured is the quiet, enduring strength needed to keep pushing against constraint. The series pours a spectrum of resilience, showing that change is not always loud or instantaneous, but can be enacted through persistence, self-awareness, and the refusal to conform. Through material, form, and symbolism, this series suggests that while we are shaped by the systems we inhabit, we also have the power to redraw the lines. #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers

I’m so pleased to be working along side The Latest exhibition - @guildfordarts they run fine art exhibitions and events for creatives in Guildford and surrounding communities. This is the latest exhibition by a selection of local artists . Discover and connect with the artist @guildfordarts an organisation for all creatives and local artists to bring the community together through the many avenues of the creative arts working within @lockwoodarts the newly revamped creative hub for the community and arts to come together. @guildfordarts @lockwoodarts @pippaward1 @virginiarayart @jimtucker904 @artbysinclairwebster @sueransleyart @beth_kirby_art this is just some of the artists! @nicholarodgers.artist #FineArt #ArtGallery #ArtExhibition #ContemporaryArt #ModernArt #Painting #ArtCollectors #VisualArt #ArtCurator #ArtWorld #localart #artinguildford

// OPEN CALL - FOR ART RESIDENCY // At www.haus-a-rest.com We are seeking a multimedia artist to be a resident for at least three months on our art zine to write or film guides each month. The guides can be written pieces or short videos, and would offer tips and tricks for using different materials, processes and ideas for making. The residency would be for three months across three issues, with the opportunity to write additional pieces. This is a great opportunity for an artist to be our resident 'expert' to write short tips, tricks and guides as a residency opportunity. They could be top ten tips, short guides or videos. The artist would be featured and could show examples of their work to demonstrate the guide. This role can be expanded as we value initiative and creative thinking, so you can really own this and use this platform to promote your knowledge and ideas. Deadline: 12th September 2025 Apply here: https://www.curatorspace.com//opportunities/detail/open-call--for-art-residency/9689 #artresidency #artistinresidence #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries

// OPEN CALL - Issue 64 - Changing Patterns // Apply at www.haus-a-rest.com via the opportunities tab. We are seeking artists and writers for our next online exhibition and publication, themed “Changing Patterns.” This open call invites work that engages with the concepts of whether it is possible to change or adapt ourselves and others, and break free from performativity and the discourse that surrounds us. Michel Foucault stated that "Power is everywhere", and that we are part of the discourse, influence it and are influenced by it. If we are entrenched within knowledge systems that affect us from birth, through our schools, institutions, laws, communities and societal 'norms', then is it possible to break free and change our pattern? How much wiggle room do we have if we are intrinsic to the power structures we live within? For this open call, we are seeking art and writing that explores this concept. Deadline: 1st September 2025 We look forward to your submission. Image courtesy of @jennafoxartist #ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #ArtistCall #VisualDialogue #CreativeExchange #OnlineExhibition #ArtAsConversation #EmergingWriters #MixedMediaArt #InterdisciplinaryArt #ZineCulture #WritingCommunity #artzine #contemporaryart #zine #opencall #artwriters #boundaries #pushingboundaries @jennafoxartist @nicholarodgers.artist @haus_a_rest @michaela_hall_artist @peterdevonald