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Men from unlikely backgrounds: plumbers, carpenters, factory workers, stone carvers, ER docs etc. have become artists for the first time. 

They each created a piece of textile art for a Newcastle exhibition. 

Artist Tim Johnson coordinated the exhibition and worked with the men to teach them skills like twilling, weaving and net making to make their piece.

"Many of them wouldn't have thought of themselves as creative or artistic, what the project has been about is bringing out the skills and creativity and deploy them in a different way," Mr Johnson said.

"As the work has evolved, it's just been fantastic to see ideas evolve.
"It's so important for people to have to opportunity to be creative, it's part of being human.

"Because people's work and trades are so segmented, we forget that we have the ability to be creative, if we can encourage people to get back and express themselves in different ways, that's fantastic."

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Tired of having to rely on band mates to make music, Newcastle artist Louisa Magrics has drummed up a new art form all on her own. 

“I got a bit burnt out, you need them to turn up to band practice or gigs, playing the drums all on your own isn’t that fun,” Ms Magrics said. 

So she took her drum kit and used rhythms to design large scale crochet sculptures.

“When I started thinking about how drums could inform crochet patterns, it was a bit of an epiphany,” she said. 

“I could take this thing that I had invested so much time and love and passion into and turn it into something I could do on my own time.” 

“It’s really hard to explain with words but it was an intuitive process of exploration."

So as the crochet designs spiral outwards, the drum beat gets quicker, and the crochet stitch gets wider.

She displays the sculptures temporarily in urban spaces, like parks, or car parks.

Elizabeth Maddock