Some of us do our best work away from others. The shed, studio, workshop, whatever you call it, can be a place of retreat, a bastion of endeavour and an antidote to worrying about all that stuff going on out there.
But for others, it’s the community of others that fires creativity and sweetens the daily grind. Jonathan (Jono) Everett is one such. For the last 10 years he has worked out of The Soap Factory in Newcastle, a collective he set up with his partner Sophia Emmett.
Currently there are eight other makers there, and incidentally they’re all women – it wasn’t planned that way. It’s a collective of independents but Jono and Sophia lead the way things work. There’s never been an official meeting and many of the residents have been there for 10 years, so clearly the
