Leeds Creative Timebank

Solstice Social – Tue 17th December | 6pm

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Meet Sue Johnson

Sue Johnson is a timebank member and timebroker whose creative practice revolves around website design.

Originally a freelance graphic designer and artworker, she began designing and developing websites ten years ago.

She mainly develops websites based on the popular and easy to use platform WordPress. She designs and creates custom themes for the websites. Her clients include non profit groups and small businesses.

Her recent work includes a website for Urban Angels Circus featuring a system to book and pay for classes: https://urbanangelscircus.com/ She has also created a website for The Human Aquarium: https://humanaquarium.co.uk/ featuring an activities section built with WordPress custom posts.

You can see more examples of her work at: https://suesdesign.co.uk/

Twitter: @suesdesign https://twitter.com/suesdesign

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Guess what’s happening here ?

Here are a few images of some of the amazing transactions that have taken place through the Timebank. So can you remember or guess when these pictures were taken and/ or by whom and/or which members were involved, or even what year it was ? Or do you remember other brilliant projects that have used the Timebank? Do let us know by emailing leedscreativetimebank@gmail.com or via our Instagram, twitter or Facebook accounts.

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Meet Jon Eland…

Strawbleu is the pseudonym of member Jon Eland.
A timebanker since 2015, he has two photographic art practices and loves collaboration and collective development – he has been involved in several local and international artistic collectives.

Photo of Planetine by @strawbleu for @timebankleeds member @LunaLeFey

Whilst his photographic style does differ between practices and from project to project you can be certain that each series will have a sense of narrative that also has some unreality.

His strawbleu practice is focused on capturing what it is to be in a place; responding on a personal level to the environments he finds himself in, his But I Like It practice uses gay and queer men as it’s subject – looking at identities, tribes and society impacts how individuals react with the world at large.

Alongside his photographic projects Jon worked to develop a real-world element for Flickr (the social network) in Leeds before founding the Exposure Leeds photographic group (which ran for 5 years), as part of this he brought the Photocamp concept to Europe. Since this he created the (we are) Obscured international queer art collective and has exhibited with the Homosurrealism group in London, Warsaw and Paris as well as other exhibitions throughout the UK, in Athens, Rome, Dortmund, Louisville, Los Angeles and New York

Currently Jon is refining his practices looking at assemblage with fabric and needle crafts as can be seen from his most recent work, shown at Homosurrealism Paris:

résister aux bandes parallèles si vous pouvez (2019) – assemblage with mixed media.

You will find more of his work posted: