Blackhorse Workshop

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Blackhorse Workshop is a new kind of public building for making, mending and learning located in Walthamstow, east London. In the spirit of the public library the workshop will be a place for shared knowledge, with tools, machinery and skilled technicians in place of books, desks and librarians. The workshop has been running an initial programme of talks, classes and events since November 2013 before opening fully on 1st February 2014. The workshop will open its doors officially on Wednesday 22nd January from 4-9pm with a range of activities for all ages, food tasting, music and a chance to sign up for discounted memberships. A range of affordable membership packages will cater for everyone, from commercial and professional makers, to the occasional user. There will also be a number of affordable private studios available for long-term tenancy. The programme of public classes, talks and events will further encourage the sharing of knowledge and skills. The building has been under construction for the past six months, with Assemble working with local artists, businesses, community organisations and volunteers during the build. A collaboration with graphic designers Europa has resulted in the graphic identity for the workshop, covering the printed and online material as well as the workshop’s interior.

THANKS FOR COMING!!!Just a week ago, the Blackhorse Collective Creative Enterprise Zone was buzzing as we hosted the fir...
25/09/2026

THANKS FOR COMING!!!

Just a week ago, the Blackhorse Collective Creative Enterprise Zone was buzzing as we hosted the first ever Blackhorse Creates as part of London Design Festival 2026 and Open House Festival. Bringing together makers, artists, designers and creative businesses for workshops, panel talks and behind-the-scenes looks.

Thanks to all our 40+ makers who showed their work over the weekend, to everyone (over 800 of you!!!) who came along to our open studios, to the 6 musicians and DJs that provided the soundtrack (if you missed it see link in bio to hear ’s set), Chunk Provisions ice cream who fed the crowd with 80 litres of ice cream, 11 artists who shared participatory artworks, to our 10 partner venues that offered their spaces for activities and shout out to anyone who provided school and college tours of their workspaces.

Thanks to our sponsors and partners: Stow Brothers, Pulse and Pickle, Big Penny Social, Wildside Community Garden, Walthamstow Wetlands, Another Kind Studio, Blackhorse Collective, London Design Festival, Open House, London Borough of Waltham Forest, Mayor of London

A huge thank you to all of the incredible performers who brought the courtyard to life last Saturday for @ . As local cr...
22/09/2026

A huge thank you to all of the incredible performers who brought the courtyard to life last Saturday for @ . As local creatives & community came together for at Blackhorse workshop for a weekend of celebration, their music provided the perfect soundtrack to a day of open studios, exhibitions, panel talks and more.

A special shout out to:







And a massive thank you to our sponsors this year, for your support to make this happen.

Visit Talia's link in bio to hear the Blackhorse Creates set!

Come take part in four interactive artworks this Saturday (19th September 1 - 4 pm) at Big Penny Social, part of Blackho...
18/09/2026

Come take part in four interactive artworks this Saturday (19th September 1 - 4 pm) at Big Penny Social, part of Blackhorse Creates:

- Family making activities with our youth alumni Blackhorse Activators.
- Fantastical Drawings to Solve Things with Barry Sykes;
- Lungs of London with Jasleen Kaur, Demi Henderson and Alexis McAttee;
- Collider by Signal to Noise

17/09/2026

Four Blackhorse Workshop makers in .worldofinteriors Autumn round up! Thanks

Come see these pieces and more one day only this Saturday 19th September, at our Open Studios for Blackhorse Creates.




FREE Community Sauna Baths sessions! Come find a voucher at any of our Blackhorse Creates venues this Saturday: Blackhor...
16/09/2026

FREE Community Sauna Baths sessions!

Come find a voucher at any of our Blackhorse Creates venues this Saturday: Blackhorse Workshop, Big Penny Social, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Switchboard Studios.

Community Sauna Baths' mission as a not-for-profit community sauna
is to make sauna and cold plunge affordable and accessible to everyone in London.

Through their community initiatives, they offer free and discounted sessions to those who need it most but are offering these vouchers to all to have a soak and relax.

Grab a voucher while they last!

OPEN STUDIOS #2This Saturday, Blackhorse Workshop invites visitors to explore the creative spaces of its resident maker...
16/09/2026

OPEN STUDIOS #2

This Saturday, Blackhorse Workshop invites visitors to explore the creative spaces of its resident makers and designers. From first sketches to finished pieces, discover how a diverse range of artists and craftspeople bring their ideas to life.

30 makers from Blackhorse Workshop open their studios to share their work and processes. Working across architecture, interiors, furniture, textiles, lighting, knife making, robotics, sculpture, painting and more, get a 'behind the scenes' insight into the creatives that operate from Blackhorse Workshop studio spaces.

Hosting open studios with creatives such as:

Nicole Chiu Nicole Chui: THAT SEW NICOLE

Nicole Chui is a messy, brash, and disruptive artist specialising in freestyle hand embroidery. Through stitch, her work is driven by the desire to preserve and create memories, disrupt perfection, and unpick traditions. She is currently exploring the integration of her identity in football culture.

Chui’s work has been exhibited at NOW Gallery, Somerset House, Design District, London Design Festival and The MAC Belfast.

Photo Credit: Eseniia Araslanova

Riya Panchal MESEME by Riya Panchal

RiMESEME by Riya Panchal-based lighting designer-maker and founder of MESEME Studio, creating handcrafted sculptural lighting with a distinctive artistic presence. Her practice explores material, form, colour and light through an intuitive, making-led design process, bringing together contemporary design with specialist craft and fabrication.

Concept Objects Concept Object

Madeleine/Concept Objecttists who fell in love with saving/sharing sound and vision. Starting with heritage audio objects and on to creating their own concepts, remaining true to reimagining concepts and reclaiming objects, they craft limited runs of Concept Objects for exclusive spaces and active brands.

Anna Cornish Anna Cornish

Founder of AAnna Cornishssentially Wood, creating bespoke handcrafted hardwood furniture that is both beautiful and affordable. Drawing on her life experiences and passion for woodworking, she designs and makes made to order pieces using a variety of sustainably sourced hardwoods, combining craftsmanship, individuality, and l

Discover what an artist residency looks like from the inside. Hear from this years 4 makers in residence as part of the...
16/09/2026

Discover what an artist residency looks like from the inside.

Hear from this years 4 makers in residence as part of the Open Studios 12-5pm Saturday 19th September and see what they make whilst working at Blackhorse Workshop:

What do artists and makers do when on a residency?

What does a residency offer a creative practice and what gets made in the space and time given?

2025-26 Residents:

Catherine Chan You Fe
Fawziyah Rahman
Alexander Hanotu
Hamza Aldlimi

📍Residency Showcase in Studio 1 @ Blackhorse Workshop

Catherine Chan You Fee, Summer 2026

Catherine (2001) is a Fine Artist, born and based in London, she graduated with a degree in Fine Art Painting from the University of the Arts London, Camberwell (2024). Catherine currently works as an artist and part-time art teacher, alongside volunteering at her local life drawing community. In the studio, she works primarily through painting, drawing and collage, utilising abstraction as a means of distortion and expression across her work.

Fawziyah Rahman, Spring/Summer 2026

Fawzy is an interdisciplinary artist and healthcare worker who works through mark-making, multi-media sculpture, interpersonal interaction and communion. Through work that explores insurgence, intersectional relationality, ancestral trauma healing and world building, they play with power dynamics, challenging western dualism through an eco-feminist lens. They studied BSc. Anatomy, Developmental and Human Biology (2015) and PG Dip. Adult Nursing (2018) at King’s College London and MA Art & Science (2024) at Central Saint Martins. Fawzy is currently studying Masters of Midwifery in North London.

Alex Hanotu, Spring 2026

Alex studies architecture and works in that space between design, furniture making and material experimentation. He’s big on functional pieces that people can genuinely engage with and has been shifting his practice toward reuse, found materials and low‑impact making.

Now he’s here as a memberto push things further with proper space, tools and time to explore woodwork in a way that hasn’t been possible in his back garden or his university workshop.

Hamza Aldlimi, Autumn 2025/Spring 2026

Hamza is a London-based me

Many of our makers and creators will be opening their doors this Saturday for Blackhorse Creates, come along and see whe...
15/09/2026

Many of our makers and creators will be opening their doors this Saturday for Blackhorse Creates, come along and see where our local talent.

30 makers from Blackhorse Workshop open their studios to share their work and processes. Working across architecture, interiors, furniture, textiles, lighting, knife making, robotics, and more, get a 'behind the scenes' insight into the creatives that operate from Blackhorse Workshop studio spaces.
Hosting open studios with creatives such as:

Byron BYRON
Byron is a maker and designer based in London, using furniture and objects as a medium to ask questions about the world we live in. His practice is centered around play as a form of research, and a curiosity of materials and processes.

Mark Greenwood Fallen Grain
Woodworker, carpenter, artist, chef, craftsman, handyman and the man behind Fallen Grain. Every Fallen Grain piece is handcrafted from fallen trees and reclaimed timber, giving beautiful wood a second life.

Danial Swarilov Daniel Swarilov
Austrian-born, London-based artist and designer working primarily in cast metal. Working with plants, branches, stone and other found fragments, he casts natural forms directly into aluminium, bronze and other metals, preserving their textures through transformation.

Daoud Qureshi Desque
Desque is focused on making sculpture and furniture in mild steel. The work is fabricated using welding, grinding, and cutting, with forged and smithed elements where the piece calls for them.

Saym Hussain Saym Hussain
London-based designer from Glasgow, Scotland, whose work moves between research and making, examining how objects operate as both products of their social, political, cultural and historical contexts, and as active participants in shaping those contexts in return.

Adam Azmy Azmy Anything
Maker and visual effects supervisor at the award-winning VFX studio One of Us, where he leads design-driven, practical and digital work across feature films and other high-end projects.

Thom Glen @ kentishtown_cabinets
After years spent working in arts and media, Thom Glenn of Kentish Town Cabinets retrained as a carpenter and now spends his time de

THIS THURSDAY: Community Dinner 🍽As part of Blackhorse Creates, a celebration of making, design and creativity across th...
14/09/2026

THIS THURSDAY: Community Dinner 🍽

As part of Blackhorse Creates, a celebration of making, design and creativity across the Blackhorse Lane Creative Enterprise Zone, Pulse & Pickle will be hosting a very special Community Dinner where all are welcome!

THE MENU
The evening's menu is curated by our Nepali team members and includes:

- Polao (fragrant, spiced, and lightly sweet rice dish)
- Grundruk (fermented leafy green vegetables)
- Tomato achar (smoky, spicy, tomato sauce)
- Potato cucumber salad
- Rajma (red kidney bean curry)
- Poi spinach
- Sliced salad
All dishes are vegan.

If you'd like to join us, you'll find tickets via the link in our bio.

We recognise that financial realities shape who can take part in gatherings like these. To help make our dinners more accessible, we offer a 'Solidarity Sliding Scale' of pricing.

This approach allows people with different resources to come together around the same table, supporting one another's participation and helping to build a more inclusive community.

Every ticket contributes to making these gatherings possible. The income from each dinner supports fair wages for our team, the artists and hosts who shape the experience, and the local growers whose produce is at the heart of every meal.

We look forward to seeing you there!

ONE WEEK TILL BLACKHORSE CREATESA delicious addition to our Open Studios, on Sat 19th September - Chunk Provisions are b...
12/09/2026

ONE WEEK TILL BLACKHORSE CREATES

A delicious addition to our Open Studios, on Sat 19th September - Chunk Provisions are bringing their Chunk Gelato bike to Blackhorse Workshop, and will be serving up their unique, locally made flavours of ice cream and sorbet, all day long.

See you next weekend of music, open studios, FREE family making activities, workshop tours, blacksmithing demos and ICE CREAM!

Alongside our madness of making activities down at on Saturday 19th September we have an exciting installation!Collider...
11/09/2026

Alongside our madness of making activities down at on Saturday 19th September we have an exciting installation!

Collider is a mixed reality sound installation that blends spatial music creation, immersive soundscapes and tactile digital interaction.

Through a mixed reality headset, participants create and manipulate digital objects in real time, building compositions shaped by the space around them. These objects move through the environment, creating layered rhythms and evolving soundscapes until the architecture itself becomes both an instrument and part of the composition.

Signal-to-Noise is a UK-based creative media arts collective led by Niall Quinn and Oliver Wilshen. They create award-winning audiovisual installations, exploratory interfaces and experimental devices.

Drop-in and FREE!
Time: 1-4pm
Venue: Big Penny Social


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

We Lift Each Other Catch the newest issue of Dezeen, where they feature one of our very own, , as he recounts his journe...
11/09/2026

We Lift Each Other

Catch the newest issue of Dezeen, where they feature one of our very own, , as he recounts his journey of crafting with waste materials such as hardwood offcuts and announces 'We Lift Each Other', an exhibition celebrating the creatives here at Blackhorse Workshop.

We Lift Each Other is curated by Byron and takes place next Saturday (19th September) as part of Blackhorse Creates, spanning everything from blacksmithing to carpentry. Grab a copy to learn more and come along next week to see all the events celebrating local talent in Walthamstow.

Link in bio for more info. 🔗

🎟️ MAPS HAVE ARRIVED 🎟️Blackhorse Creates has collaborated with Another Kind Studio to create our total brand identity a...
10/09/2026

🎟️ MAPS HAVE ARRIVED 🎟️

Blackhorse Creates has collaborated with Another Kind Studio to create our total brand identity and what a job they’ve done!

You’ll find these maps and posters all over town, pick some up from Blackhorse Workshop x Pulse and Pickle x Switchboard Studios x Big Penny Social x Barbican Arts Group Trust and Walthamstow Wetlands as well as other businesses up and down Blackhorse Lane.

Thank you so much to Patrick and Lou of Another Kind Studio for all your hard work on making our programme into something real and tangible.

This time next week we’ll be kicking off with the Next Gen: Supporting Creative Employment panel talk hosted at Switchboard Studios with speakers from across the cultural, artistic and making world followed by a Communal Dinner at Pulse and Pickle

Most events are FREE and DROP-IN so keep the diaries free for 17-20th September!


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop is a social enterprise dedicated to making.

Woodturning Weekends are back !For the whole of this weekend, we will have the expertise of our new turning tutor, Anna ...
09/09/2026

Woodturning Weekends are back !

For the whole of this weekend, we will have the expertise of our new turning tutor, Anna Tietze. Introduction to Woodturning teaches participants across two in-depth days, the structure and safe use of the lathes with a variety of turning tools.

The weekend affords you time to go at your own pace whilst being introduced to the joys of woodturning. You will be fully inducted into our wood lathes and gain the confidence to take on your own future projects.

More info in bio: 12th & 13th September 📆

Are you a local creative business who would like offer work experience or training but are unsure how this looks for you...
09/09/2026

Are you a local creative business who would like offer work experience or training but are unsure how this looks for your business? Are you passionate about the skills you have developed and want to ensure the legacy you have built can be preserved for years to come? Are you committed to your craft, your community and the empowerment of local young people?

This talk is for you!

Hear from artists, makers and businesses supporting the next generation of Waltham Forest creatives into creative employment.

Speakers include; Turner Prize Winning Artist .kaur_ exploring ethical co-design, Mick Lapsley of , Ciaran ? founder of and outlining the importance of training the next generation of crafts people we'll be joined by

Time: Thursday 17th September 4-5pm
Venue: Switchboard Studios, E17 5QJ
FREE, no booking required.


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

We will be taking over Big Penny Social to create a room full of activities looking at how creativity can be a tool for ...
08/09/2026

We will be taking over Big Penny Social to create a room full of activities looking at how creativity can be a tool for change.

Jasleen Kaur will be joined by Demi and Alexis, two Blackhorse Responders from 2024. They have been working together to co-design a public installation taking place at the (soon-to-be) new and will be running creative activities on Saturday 19th September.

Historically in town planning, green spaces were imagined as the ‘lungs of London’ creating spaces to breathe and belong in the City. Using concrete poetry, create song lyrics about how the city, the neighbourhood, the park and the pavement make you feel.

Drop-in Workshop: 1-4pm
Venue: Big Penny Social


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

It's not just Saturday that will have all the action!On Sunday 20th September we have multiple activities happening acro...
07/09/2026

It's not just Saturday that will have all the action!

On Sunday 20th September we have multiple activities happening across

Discover a piece of London’s industrial past, surrounded by nature.
Join us at the wetlands for a special tour of the Victorian Engine House and even climb the steps of the old Coppermill Tower, first mentioned in the Doomsday Book.

Free to attend: book via Open House.


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

Talia Andrea is a DJ, Producer and founder of FEMMESTIVAL and HYPERLINK who has curated this years' sound of Blackhorse ...
06/09/2026

Talia Andrea is a DJ, Producer and founder of FEMMESTIVAL and HYPERLINK who has curated this years' sound of Blackhorse Creates.

Head down to Blackhorse Workshop for a day full of local, upcoming and exciting artists alongside our Open Studios, Blacksmithing Demo's and Family Making Activities. Talia has lined up a full breadth of genres with each performer rooted in soul and good vibes.

Musicians and Perfomers below:







Thank you Talia, we're excited to hear the sounds of 2026 Blackhorse Creates on Saturday 19th September 1-5pm!


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

SATURDAY PROGRAMME:We will be taking over part of to create a room full of activities looking at how creativity can be ...
04/09/2026

SATURDAY PROGRAMME:

We will be taking over part of to create a room full of activities looking at how creativity can be a tool for change.

will be joined by two Demi and Alexis, two Blackhorse Responders from 2024. They have been working together to co-design a public installation taking place at the (soon-to-be) new and will be running creative activities on Saturday 19th September.

Historically in town planning, green spaces were imagined as the 'lungs of London' creating spaces to breath and belong in the city. Using concrete poetry, create song lyrics about how the city, the neighbourhood, the park and the pavement makes you feel.

Drop-in Workshop: 1-4pm


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

From next week, Make Stuff Club Autumn 2026 we will be collaborating with Blackhorse Workshop based designer .This Is B...
02/09/2026

From next week, Make Stuff Club Autumn 2026 we will be collaborating with Blackhorse Workshop based designer .

This Is Byron is a design informed maker specialising utilising waste material to create new products and furniture. Make Stuff Club SEN is a creative, weekly after school club for children.

We will be designing small chairs or stools using wood for the skeleton framework and developing our own cardboard mulch to create their final design.

Mondays at 4:30 - 5:30pm (Starting 7th September)
Wednesdays at (Home Ed) & 1:30 - 3pm (SEN) & 4 - 5pm (Starting 9th September)

We’ll be learning tools such as measuring tape, handsaw, coping saw, hand-held drills, pillar drill, belt-sander, chisel, hammer.

Over several months .glykofridi has been situating themselves within the making at Blackhorse Workshop to collect the so...
02/09/2026

Over several months .glykofridi has been situating themselves within the making at Blackhorse Workshop to collect the sounds, the textures and the loud noises of the ever-expansive making based here.

Blackhorse Creates weekend the piece will be exhibited for the FIRST TIME.

Join us on Saturday 19th September anytime between 12-5pm to engage with the interactive soundscape exploring the sounds and textures of the Blackhorse workshop
environment. The piece considers how the workshop sounds over time, and how we may recognise the presence of others through subtle audio cues.

Intrigued? Come down and see (or hear) what it's all about!


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

Come and see artist Nicola Morrison at work and discover what she has been working on as part of her residency. Nicola's...
31/08/2026

Come and see artist Nicola Morrison at work and discover what she has been working on as part of her residency. Nicola's art residency is based in Barbican Group Arts Trust, a home to many artists.

Her work features paintings which explore nature as an integral part of the city and she's opening up her studio for ONE DAY!

Ever wondered what artists do on a residency? How they work in a new space? Come down and you can ask all your questions to the artist directly.

Open Studios: 12-4pm



Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

SATURDAY PROGRAMME:Family Make Stuff is back for a Blackhorse Creates special!Inspired by projects made in our last Make...
30/08/2026

SATURDAY PROGRAMME:

Family Make Stuff is back for a Blackhorse Creates special!

Inspired by projects made in our last Make Stuff Club term, join us to design and produce your very own puppetss.

Both you and your child will learn how to measure and mark your wood, use handsaws and coping saws to cut out your puppet parts and pull together using hand-held drills. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned DIY'er, this is a lovely, supportive space for families to create and make together.

Join us either 10am-12pm or 2-4pm for 2 hours of designing, making, woodworking and fun!

Please follow the link to the website to book before tickets disappear.


Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

More Introduction to Joinery dates just went live 🪚✨Running September & October for anyone on the waitlist wanting to ge...
29/08/2026

More Introduction to Joinery dates just went live 🪚✨

Running September & October for anyone on the waitlist wanting to get into woodworking this year.

We’ll cover biscuit joints, mortise and tenon, dovetails over four relaxed evening sessions or two full weekend days. This course introduces the basics of woodworking to get you set up to start working on your own projects.

Next start dates:
Monday 7th September
Thursday 10th September

SATURDAY PROGRAMME 1pm / 2pm / 3pmBlacksmithing Demonstrations are BACK for the weekend of Blackhorse Creates!Join us at...
28/08/2026

SATURDAY PROGRAMME 1pm / 2pm / 3pm

Blacksmithing Demonstrations are BACK for the weekend of Blackhorse Creates!

Join us at 1pm, 2pm or 3pm for an up close demonstration of the forge learning about the historical heritage craft dating back to the Iron Age.

You will meet one of our new blacksmithing tutors, Isabella Bussoni, a London-based blacksmith specialising in hand forged art pieces and bespoke commissions alongside teaching Blacksmithing at a School in North London.

Our wonderful technician team have also extended our forge area with a concreted platform meaning more anvils, more forges and more making!



Blackhorse Creates is delivered in partnership by Blackhorse Workshop, a social enterprise dedicated to making.

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1-2 Sutherland Road Path
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Monday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
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