Concatenation is a wonderful thing. Post proper job I have dabbled in admin and writing for Arts organisations and now in a strange twist of concatenation as a non-tennis  player I do admin for a tennis club.

Not ‘just’ a tennis club but a coastal garden and Clubhouse that is available to host community events.

One such community is Rhizome Artists who meet once a week in the clubhouse. Rhizome are Exhibiting locally and the venue of the exhibition has a cafe that does great coffee and cake so a visit was the obvious thing to do.

So coffee, and cake but not concatenation were my anticipated outcomes of the visit.

Early on I met Tim who was taking some standard photographs of the whole exhibition. We had a small natter and he left. I enjoyed my coffee and cake and a lovely wide-ranging conversation with my gentleman companion. We then spent a lot of time enjoying the art, some of which is in the pictures below.

But then Tim returned. He is a stop start animation artist and had bought with him two of his posable figures and a panorama image of the exhibition.

Really hard to believe that these two figures were not genuinely in the gallery with me. Or is this actually me and my gentleman companion!

Now this blog was always going to be about the collaborative work that Rhizome create in the Tennis Club clubhouse.

Fabulous as it is. The serendipity of meeting Tim altered the direction of the blog.

If you are local and can visit. Manor Street Gallery is open  during cafe hours.