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 76

Print leaves a mark through pressure, contact and repetition. It is an impression, a trace, a copy, a record, a pattern or the evidence of an action. This issue of Haus à Rest brings together work made in response to our open call on print as both a medium and a concept, and on the labour and repetition that run through it, from the factory floor and domestic routine to digital copying and the endless circulation of images.

In a world of automation and reproduction, what does it mean to make something by hand? And how can repetition become a way of resisting, surviving, remembering or changing things?

Some respond to the theme directly, taking up the routines of the workshop, the factory or the home. Others come at it sideways, through ritual, habit, compulsion or exhaustion. Across the selection, labour is physical, social, emotional and economic, and repetition can be a burden, a discipline, a comfort or a quiet form of resistance.

The writing gathered here approaches print and repetition from many directions. Using repetition as a way of thinking: as a form of memory, a domestic rhythm, a ritual or a habit that is hard to break. Fiction, poetry, essays and experimental forms sit alongside one another, and their handling of the theme varies widely.

Together they ask what labour leaves behind, how images and ideas travel as they are copied and circulated, and what is gained or lost when the hand is replaced by the machine, the screen or the algorithm. Repetition appears as exhaustion and as endurance, as a record and as a way of surviving.

We are grateful to everyone who responded to the open call

Explore the work in The Gallery and The Writers pages here.

Alongside the submitted work, we are delighted to share writing from some  our brilliant residents poet Peter Devonald, and our resident writer Michaela Hall is taking a creative break this month.

Editors,Dr Jenna Fox, and Nichola Rodgers have been busy with exhibitions, commissions, and setting up workshops, see their News and updates in the blog.

You can also find the collection rolling out across Instagram and Facebook, where we're sharing work, stories, and a closer look at the artists and writers behind the pieces. Follow along and join the conversation.

Thank you to everyone who submitted, who shared, and who trusted us with their work.

As always, HAUS-A-REST remains a platform for experimental, independent, and boundary-pushing work. If you have an idea that fits this brief then get in touch.

THE FEATURED ARTIST THIS ISSUE

Katherine Loudoun

Katherine’s practice is rooted in observations of constructing space in a pictorial plane. Assembly and mark-making can be translated through the physical language of printmaking. She sees each print as an allegory in its own right, bringing together fragments of historical tradition, methods of making and material processes to explore the construction, transformation and beauty of an image.

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Micro Residency Open Call

We’re excited to continue these Micro-Residencies, 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 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.

Meet our New Micro residency artist

Christopher Garcia

Christopher Garcia spent his childhood in Puerto Rico. After studying for, and earning, his bachelor's and master's degrees in ceramics and visual arts in Vermont and Arizona, he has lived and worked as an educator, artist and journalist in New Mexico, Mississippi, Washington State, Ohio, New York City, and Kansas City, USA. Chris has traveled nationally and internationally as a visual artist, resident artist, journalist and workshop instructor throughout Europe, Mexico, Armenia, Iceland, Central and South America, The Caribbean, and Canada. Chris is an active writer and artist living in Kansas City, USA. 

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