Rimbaud and Vaucher discuss Dial House with The Observer

PENNY RIMBAUD AND Gee Vaucher discuss the origins, ambitions and decades-long history of Dial House–the Epping farmhouse from which Crass emerged–in the Homes section of The Observer (4 October). As Rimbaud describes it, the current incarnation of Dial House emerged in 1967 to play host to “a revolving cast of visitors, some friends and artistic collaborators, many of them strangers who simply asked to stay.” The article, illustrated with full-colour photographs of the Dial House interior by Mark Anthony Fox, suggests: It is a place of production, a centrifugal organism that spins its creative energy off into a one-acre garden. Vaucher has a studio in the house, bright and relatively high, populated by inspirations and work in progress. There’s another room where she’s organising her archive for the forthcoming Gee Vaucher Foundation, whose aim is to preserve her work and support like-minded artists. Outside there are sheds, studios and an old caravan, places where visiting artists…