Our journal
Fig's Journal is a space for sharing the research and development of our projects and providing insight into Fig’s wider activities and interests.
Commissioned artists JC Niala and Eleanor Greenhalgh will be publishing reflections on their creative process and sharing work-in-progress throughout the year.
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by Rosie McLean & Patrick Mannion
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![JC Niala with 'Portal: 1918 Allotment' publication at the Old Fire Station, Oxford, March 2022.](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_3958-scaled.jpg)
by JC Niala
![Seedling pots made from pages of 'Portal' book in window of the Old Fire Station, Oxford.](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_3795-scaled.jpg)
by JC Niala
![Still from Benjamin Huguet's collaborative film with JC Niala at Elder Stubbs](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screenshot-2022-03-23-at-16.00.47-800x600.png)
by JC Niala
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![Page spread from 'Portal: 1918 Allotment' by JC Niala](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/JC-NIALA-1918-ALLOTMENT-SPREAD-800x600.png)
by JC Niala
![Produce from the 1918 Allotment we shared with the audience at reading events in 2021](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG_4556-scaled.jpeg)
by JC Niala
![Montage used in forthcoming publication Portal: 1918 Allotment](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot-2022-02-28-at-10.42.53-800x600.png)
by JC Niala
![Heart shaped pin cushion owned by Miss Beatrice E. Stevens who died in the influenza pandemic of 1918–19, while serving with the French Red Cross in Europe. Courtesy of Museum of English Rural Life. Object 55/782.](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMG_2728-800x600.jpeg)
by JC Niala
![Participant at Elder Vernacular workshop, Sept 2021](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_2317-scaled.jpeg)
by Nor Greenhalgh
![Pears advertisement from Punch magazine, July 1918. Courtesy of the Catherine Procter Collection.](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Picture1-763x600.png)
by JC Niala
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![Laura and audience at the 1918 Allotment](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_1999-800x600.jpeg)
by Laura Theis
![Reading to audience at the 1918 Allotment](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_1941-800x600.jpeg)
by JC Niala
![1918 Allotment entry to the 'vegetable display' category of the Elder Stubbs Vegetable Show and winner of 'Best in Show'. Basket included turnips, beetroot, squash, potatoes and carrots.](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_1490-800x600.jpg)
by JC Niala
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![Edgar Kiewe's bottle of 'brightest Oxford ochre'. Oxfordshire History Centre.](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/edgarKieweOchreBottle1300px-800x600.jpg)
by Nor Greenhalgh
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by JC Niala
![1918 Allotment plot (nearest) and neighbouring plots on Elder Stubbs Allotments, July 2021](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_0933-scaled.jpeg)
by JC Niala
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by JC Niala
![Tiles emerge from the pit fire ashes.](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/pitFiredTile1300px-800x600.jpg)
by Nor Greenhalgh
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by JC Niala
![First strawberry of the year on the 1918 Allotment, June 2021](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_0604-800x600.png)
by JC Niala
![Allotment Movement in WW1 (Postcard), 1917. Artist Unknown. Garden Museum Collection (No. 1999.481)](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1999-481-Allotment-trail-J-800x600.jpg)
by JC Niala
![1918 Allotment plot on Elder Stubbs Allotment, Oxford, April 2021](https://fig.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_0058.png)
by JC Niala
![Supported using public funding by Arts Council England](https://fig.studio/wp-content/themes/jakedowsmithstudio/assets/img/ac.png)