Jenny Adams was commissioned to make a site-specific work for the hoardings which surround Edward Edwards House during the redevelopment of the building. The large-scale drawings are enlarged from Jenny’s many sketchbooks documenting her daily life living in the almshouse behind these hoardings.
Designed in collaboration with Charlie Noon, the images simultaneously record the often overlooked details of our immediate environment – of plants, the stages of decaying fruit, roadworks or flowers picked in the garden and left on her windowsill by a neighbour, and mark the next phase for Edward Edwards House.
Jenny Adams was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1932, attended Central Art School from 1950–54 and worked as a commercial artist for John Lewis & Partners and as an illustrator and designer. Jenny, now in her early 90’s, sketches every day. She was a resident of Edward Edwards House on Nicholson Street and currently lives at Hopton’s Almshouse.
