the 2025 Summer Residency catalogue is published!

With thanks to everyone for their help with coordinating this rather thick novel of works, projects, gestures, recipes and social moments. Its  really a beautiful document. Hope you enjoy.

This publication includes our exhibition at UEL's Between Gallery back in Oct/Nov 2025.

A heartfelt thank you to all participants, visitors, speakers and those who helped take down the exhibition.

A very large thank you to all donations via our Go Fund Me page we received to print copies for the much larger group that took part this year. We are now able to distribute to Trustees and any supporters who would wish a copy. Very happy to post one to you.

Thank you to Stasys and Indra printers in Utena, the bus driver and courier for a beautifully coordinated delivery to London.


The 2025 Summer Exhibition @ Between People and Catalogue launch

We published our first 'proof for the Summer Residency Session for UEL's Between People gallery show a few weeks ago. We are relaunching our Go Fund Me page to raise funds to print the 35 copies necessary for all participants, trustees and supporters to received physical copy as per our 15 year tradition.

This final print will include beautiful photos by Jess Dowson from the exhibition and others of the setup, preparation, exhibition opening and conversation day.

Thank you so very much for this generous moment.

I will update and revise this post in the next days to add further photos and text description.

A heartfelt thank you for the all the help and support for these post residency moments.

Our previous published catalogues library can be viewed here.


A short video clip of the turning pages of hte catalogue is here.






The Summer Residency session 2025

We've done it. Accomplished an extraordinary session this past July. The protagonists 2025 are in the portrait + a special portrait of Jeffrey. Thank you to everyone who came.

 Our temporary village is titled 'a low frequency chaos' this year.

                                                                                                                                                       

Alex Koks, Alice Baseian, Anna Dovha, Diego Rodrigues, Diya Seepaul, Dom Chu, Dulcie Smith, Faezeh Fathi, 

Georgia Bills, Ivan Vong, Jeffrey Adjei, Jos Pepe, Jude Bartlett, Kristina Kotov, Maegan Icke, Niall Healy, Nicole Ng, 

Remi Brazzi, Wiktoria Stachowiak +  Stasys Skliaustis & family


We've just sent off the order for our proof print of the catalogue, thank you everyone for your efforts to hit these deadlines, help with editing and make sure we put together a stable print document that captures all the varieties of projects which grew, dispersed and gathered- not to mention the food. We will and we did.

An exhibition is in the works for later in October at Between People Gallery at UEL Docklands campus.

29 Oct 6-9pm     evening opening 

1 Nov 3-6pm      afternoon opening and conversation

More details to come as the days approach. I will either update this post or Instagram.

Thank you especially to Dom Chu for all the graphic work, editors, researchers and checkers, Fay, Nicole, Wiki, Meg, Diya and basically everyone, especially those we mis-pelled names, let AI spell check go too far. 

A very special thank you to Niall Healy for orchestrating and Keith Winter of UEL / Between People for having us along.

til soon.





The Ranch 24 Summer Residency publication is finally online!

Its been an extraordinary journey to publish this years collectively produced publication. Thank you to everyone for contributing images, thoughts and of course yourselves to the session both on site and off. To the Greyhound Pub in Hendon, North London for giving us a space to launch this back in October. Much gratitude to UCA Canterbury School of Architecture for supporting the printing of the first 26 copies.

Ranch Summer Residencies 2024

The summer has gone now, but we will be launching our 2024 Residency catalogue at the Greyhound Pub in Hendon 25-31 Oct 2024. 

A very productive session this one, colourful and thoughtful. We will add further images to this post in the next days.

Jeffrey Adjei, Jon Shmulevitch, Dom Chu, Robyn Lammiman, Kaviyan Arivanandan, Faezeh Fathi, Kristina Kotov


a tribute to Mr Serra


While doing some maintenance at the Ranch in April, the news surfaced of Mr Serra's passing. The circle in, line and circle out' was not done deliberately, but as both a gesture of located space at the Ranch and maintaining a flourishing willow population. The thought of Mr Serra's work was reminiscing. 

I am not a specialist of willows but this species has a reputation of extensive breeding.

Managing the growth to keep some water movement through the Ranch, to keep the mosquitoes at bay in the summer months is always a challenge, and these needed to be cut while the stem diameter was manageable - by hand.

And so this arrangement. The outhouse and bridge frame this area, a small urban oasis of circles, holes and lines. Not cars and patched asphalt in a vacant street but small gestures which comprise movements around, in and through. Perhaps the colour tones and frosty air settled the aura, in silence.

the Ranch Summer Residency session 2024

We've launched the 2024 Summer residency.

Get in touch to express interest.

We are extending the deadline to pass some hand-in moments- though spaces are limited. These sessions are based on first come first serve basis and kept small in number of participants.

Please do get in touch by email or instagram message or other method if you are interested. The poster is below with further details. Browse through this blog and ISSUU catalogues on the nature of this collective rural slow space for making things from things we find we encounter or from your own interests. We all do this, there is little hierarchy.

If you are interested in applying please get in touch via the insta QR code below, we will send you a brief questionnaire to get to know you a bit better.

Look forward to hear from you or if you might be in the neighbourhood to stop by for a visit. 





Fall Residencies 2023

We were amazingly lucky to squeeze in a Fall Residency, our first. We planned and hope to be able to host one for several years delayed for all sorts of reasons...As for many these events, they tend to be outside day jobs, other types of practice, while this is part of the practice of helping breath life into the everyday ponderings. It is healing and necessary interlude. Managing, maintenance, butting up to and weaving into the everyday of the Ranch, its beavers, neighbours, the seasons.

The season was on the cusp of winter. The stillness and silence quite unlike Summer Residency Sessions, as these are a cacophony of conversations, scores and symphonies- the Ranch at the end of November is a John Cage 4'33" - all 96 hours of it - barely audible.



With thanks to ToolToy Project (Maegan Icke & Rachel Jones) & Jon Shmulevich for all the laughs, help with covering boar digs (sadly we missed the truffles), clearing trees for the Big Barn to breath again, beaver shenanigans and exploring encounters during that extended weekend.

Photos by Rachel Jones.

The zine of the Residency will be available to view soon. Meanwhile a few excerpts are here including the playlists :




As I write this the news of Paul Auster's passing has been announced. An homage to his influence on these Silences, Coincidences & Fate which are parts and layers acknowledged at the Ranch on site and off. 



Summer Residencies 2023 an Exhibition UCA- Ranch [reboot]










We opened on Friday with a small gathering some excepts from this summer's reboot residency session. We launched the draft of the annual catalogue as well. Once we have all the grammar ironed out, we will post the link here. If there is anyone interested in a hard copy of this eventual publication or others please get in touch. The handheld version works nicely.


All accolades go to the Ranchers of 2023, their help and perseverance for the exhibition but mostly to withstand the weather, the unknowns and respond to the on site time with grace, grit and care while developing and making their ideas, helping each other out, cooking and experimenting with this cocktail under the Ranch sky.

Diya Seepaul

Dom Chu

Fay Fathi

Jeffrey Adjei

Tanchho Lawati

Zain Azhar

& myself Kristina Kotov

With Jon Shmulevich (online in London) and the inhabitants of Stučių hamlet.


Royal Academy selection- Taking the Barn for a Walk


Gabor Stark and I were short listed for the Royal Academy Summer Show event a few weeks back. We packaged up the little Barnies carefully, Gabor taking much care with the box, myself thinking we needed much more bubblewrap and string but in the end we had a nice package with clear instructions and the required Green label. We dutifully delivered the little Barnies to the Royal Academy from Canterbury via Green Street in East London.



The annual exhibition, running without interruption since 1769, features work by leading artists, Royal Academicians, and household names as well as new and emerging talent. Anyone can submit their work and, if their work is selected by the RA's panel of artists, goes on display at the Main Galleries. This year, the Architecture Room is curated by architect Peter Barber RA, and focuses on the role of the making and the hand-made in the design process. 

‘Taking the Barn for a Walk’ began back in 2014 as a conversation between Gabor and myself, Kristina Kotov. As part of the 'Ghost of Barn 2b' project (scan-archived with ScanLAB Ltd) I prepared the barn to be moved – labelling, dis-mantling, assessing timbers, moving and re-assembling it in a safer location on the Ranch site – and migrated three 2m-long purlins as corpses (unusable for re-assembly) to the UK. Gabor's timber piece sat under his desk in Canterbury for some 8 years until last summer. 

“Since 2014, the plan has always been to carve the drifting piece of wood into little barns, to mount them on spindly legs, to repatriate the seemingly walking creatures, and to let them roam through their indigenous landscape again. As it turned out, taking a barn for a walk takes much longer than you think.” 


Gabor's blog and extended writing is here:
The Ranch catalogues on ISSUU Ranch20 Part 1 and Ranch 22Part 2 contain Gabor's specific text and images as well as each year's collective moments with further installs and writings. 


The exhibition opens on 12 June 2023
Royal Academy of Arts,
Burlington House, Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
12 June- 20 August 2023

Peter Barber's curation is further explained here. If anyone is around please stop by.







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