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 68

“Small Acts”

Small acts are often overlooked, quiet gestures, subtle resistances, daily rituals, moments of care, or fleeting decisions that ripple outward. 

They may be personal or political, intimate or communal, intentional or accidental. Together, these acts shape how we move through the world and how the world changes around us.

The open call this issue was for artworks  and written pieces that explore the power, poetry, complexity and nuance of small acts: 

acts of kindness, refusal, repair, or attention

everyday gestures that carry meaning

minor interventions that produce lasting impact

quiet moments that resist spectacle

small acts that have changed your art practice

We always welcome submissions in all media, including but not limited to visual art, photography,  sculpture, printmaking,  painting, collage, textile art, ceramics, video, sound, performance documentation, text-based work, and experimental practices.

We invite you to take your time with it. Scroll slowly. Sit with the work. Let it unfold.

LOOKING AHEAD: PHYSICAL EXHIBITIONS

As Haus-a-rest continues to grow beyond the digital space, we are excited to begin developing physical exhibitions that bring our online community into real-world encounters.

Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing more about upcoming pop-ups, group shows, and collaborative exhibitions that reflect the ethos of the zine, intimate, thoughtful, and experimental. These exhibitions will spotlight selected works and creatives from our issues, creating new ways to experience the work in shared spaces.

Details will be announced soon.

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

We have the third and final pieces from our Micro resident artists here

Micro-Residency

Here we have the first two on our micro residency in their third and final month Kirsty & Francesca

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

Alongside this issue, we’re excited to continue into the new year with our 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.

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 Anna Marie Savage as 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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The next open call Theme for Issue 69 is

Foraging / Nature as Art Practice”

We are inviting submissions for the next upcoming zine exploring foraging and nature as creative practice. We are interested in work that approaches nature not as subject matter alone, but as process, collaborator, material, method or way of thinking. This might include literal foraging, ecological research, walking as practice, material gathering, plant knowledge, fermentation, fibre, ritual, landscape, seasonality, care, slowness, or embodied engagement with the natural world. We welcome both visual art and written work.

Our Open Call details are here