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 70

“The Fragmented Body”

We invited artists, collectives, and interdisciplinary practitioners to submit work for The Fragmented Body, for this months exhibition exploring the body as rupture, archive, surface, and site of transformation.

The Concept

The body has never been singular. It is divided by memory, shaped by technology, marked by labour, gendered by language, racialised by history, politicised by borders, and dispersed across digital and physical realities. It is whole and broken at once.

The Fragmented Body seeks works that examine:

• The body as archive — scars, memories, inherited histories

• Dislocation, exile, and displacement

• Medical, mechanical, or digital intervention

• Prosthetics, avatars, extensions, and simulations

• Surveillance and the commodified body

• Psychological fragmentation and multiplicity

• The body in pieces: symbolic, literal, metaphorical

• We welcome interpretations that are poetic, political, intimate, speculative, or confrontational.

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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

This month our resident is in her second month. Anna Li with her 2nd film piece - from our Micro resident artists here

Micro-Residency

Our Micro Residencies

We’re excited to continue these 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.

This is a new space is for reflection, experimentation, and artistic guidance, if this is something you are interested in then please do get in touch via curator space link on our opportunities page.

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*

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This month we have

John Joyce

our featured artist

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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OUR NEXT OPEN CALL WILL FOLLOW SOON

Eligible Media

All media are welcome, including but not limited to:

• Painting, drawing, printmaking

• Sculpture and installation

• Photography

• Video and film - Vimeo and Youtube only

• Performance and live art

• Sound art

• Text-based or interdisciplinary practices

• Both existing works and new proposals are eligible.

Eligibility

This open call is open to artists at all stages of their practice. Emerging and underrepresented voices are especially encouraged to apply.

Submission Guidelines for ARTISTS

You must provide:

• A brief description of the proposed or existing work (max. 300 words). The description should explain how the work connects to the theme and explain the context. This is one of the key ways we select your work.

• A clear, well-photographed image of your work.  Please ensure that your work is resolved.

• Your Instagram tag is a MUST.  We will not select artists who do not have an Instagram tag.

We welcome the strange, the intimate, the bold, and the quietly profound.

For Writers:

• Genres: Short stories, essays, poetry, experimental writing, and cross-genre works

• Length: Up to 1,000 words for prose; up to 3 poems

• Format: Word document only

• Synopsis: A brief summary of the piece (50 words) explaining how it connects to the theme.

Our Open Call details are here

or via the link here at Curatorspace