HU3 Come to tea

A series of illustrations documenting the wonderful two week food festival HU3 Come to Tea. The festival celebrated local people, chefs, growers, creators and community. 

Noosh-e-jaan in persian means ‘May it nourish your soul’ and is a common phrase you would hear when offered food in a persian household. The phrase summed up the warmth and joy there is in sharing food with others, which is what this festival was all about!

The work culminated in animation alongside ceramics exhibited in The Leaves are Many, at Humber Street Gallery as part of the Absolutely Cultured Inter_change scheme. 

You can watch the animation, Noosh-e-jaan in full here.

Black and white image of people drinking, talking and eating in a pub. Text in red reads "W.a.n.t. want happened every week on a Tuesday for 12 weeks. The want team did a special cook out for HU3 come to tea. We are not a takeaway are a community based food project. Want connects chefs, growers, local suppliers and hungry mouths"
A page from the zine, HU3 Come to tea on display at Rayners pub.
Black and white print of women shopping. One has her back to us and the other reaches out to pick up a piece of fruit. In the foreground there is a slice of water melon.

The illustrations were developed from drawings from life during the HU3 Come to Tea festival and then printed using Tetra pack prints. The method involves scoring into unused packaging and inking up the plates using a traditional intaglio technique. The work was then digitised and animated, in Noosh-e-jaan.

A shelf with prints and zines on
Handmade plates hung on the wall of a gallery

A zine was produced to celebrate the festival and sold to raise money for Giroscope a charity based in Hull that renovates empty homes to help provide affordable housing.

 

A woman printed in black ink cooking with the text It's really bloody delicious in red
It's really bloody delicious: W.A.N.T.
Handmade plates hung on the wall of a gallery
Handmade plates inspired by HU3 Come to Tea
A black and white print of a chip shop. Two men sit at separate tables in the foreground whist a woman is in the kitchen cooking
I mean fish and chips, they're good when it's cold, they're good when it's hot
Two people watch the animation Noosh-e-jaan at Humber Street gallerty Hull
Humber Street Gallery: Though the leaves are many exhibition