At the end of the Victoria line at the Walthomstow station, and then a 15 minute walk through some suburban streets with some lefts and at other times rights is an industrial estate. Through the gate and buried at the very end of the units where you are convinced you are lost and doubting it's existence at all is God's Own Junkyard. It's a worthy pilgrimage and actually sort of where you expect God would put a junkyard.
The warehouse is a monument to neon and the life works of the late Mr Neon, Chris Bracey. It's littered to the rooftop with cables, plug sockets and choice words with neon epigrams, the whole collection is stacked, I suppose how a junkyard of the sort would be. Full of sex, religion, americana, sci-fi and nostalgia that all blend together surprisingly well, It's a visual feast that you can take in with a coffee and an open mouth. It is a gem of a place.
It is really great.
Sonya Dyakova is an art director living in London, who founded Atelier Dyakova, a multi-disciplinary, award winning visual communication agency. She leads a chaotic life with her photographer husband Edward Park and two beautiful children.
Amanda Eliasson is a Swedish animation director based in London. Her work place primary interest in hand generated processes.
She recently graduated with an MA in animation from the Royal College of Art, London. Now she’s a freelance animation director in the UK.
“Since I started animating I’ve developed an interest in making flat images transport the viewer into a three dimensional space. I would say my style is playful and naive in contrast to the difficult social subjects I often address in my films”.