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We are Dog Ear. We are two artists who, over lockdown, combined our joy of making and love of our dogs.

We work with artists to create sculptures for dogs to play with and related writings for humans to read.

13/07/2025

Hello Dog Ear friends! We’ve been slightly over taken by working on some of our independent art works and public sculptures but we’ve just come back from some off-grid R&R and are buzzing with Dog Ear ideas. As slow makers rest is important and I hope you don’t mind that we’d gone a little quiet 🫶💓 We’re still here working behind the scenes and hope to have some updates toys ready for later in the year. We’ll be sharing some sustainable dog focused companies here whilst we tinker away in our own workshop 💓🎀✨ big love from + Woolfie + + 😎☺️🐾

05/01/2025

Happy New Year from Dog Ear! We hope you’ve had a few weeks of dog cuddles on the sofa 🎀💓 After a bit of a hiatus we’re excited to be back this year, sharing more behind the scenes work and new projects and products 🥰
Here are some photos from a dream project we worked on last year- Twilight Barking at The Turner House- an exhibition curated by which exhibited some of our dog toys (we love the dog height play rack!!) + we hosted a reading group and making workshop with patients and therapy dogs 💓 Such an honour!

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Diolch

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Twilight Barking is a partnership project between ArcadeCampfa and the activities team at Hafan y Coed Mental Health Unit. For three months we worked with patients, staff, artists and therapy dogs, to make work together. The show includes work from patients and staff, artists involved in the workshops, and artists whose work interrogates human / animal relationships.

This project is a continuation of A Brief History of Healing, instigated by Gail Howard in 2019.

Generously funded through

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Rydym yn gyffrous i’ch gwahodd i lansiad Cyfarth Cyfnos yn Oriel Tŷ Turner, 6-8yh Ddydd Iau Gorffennaf 25 🐶

Project drwy gyfrwng partneriaeth rhwng ArcadeCampfa a thîm gweithgareddau Uned Iechyd Meddwl Hafan y Coed yw Cyfarth Cyfnos. Dros y tri mis diwethaf rydym wedi bod yn gweithio gyda chleifion, staff, artistiaid a chŵn therapi, i greu gwaith ar y cyd. Mae’r sioe yn cynnwys gwaith gan gleifion a staff, artistiaid sy’n rhan o’r gweithdai, ac artistiaid sy’n mynd i’r afael â pherthnasau rhwng bodau dynol ac anifeiliaid yn eu gwaith.

Parhad o broject A Brief History of Healing yw’r project hwn, wedi’i sefydlu gan Gail Howard yn 2019.

22/10/2024

We’re so happy to be taking part in Green Entrepreneurs programme as tutors on Branding: Finding Your Voice, Fundraising and Sustainable Practices.
Lu hosted ‘Finding Your Voice’ today, talking about ways which you can make your own authentic style using colours and fonts to convey your brand to clients and customers, while Lu and Emma will host a guide to making products sustainably on 28th October and Emma will host a guide to fundraising on 7Th November 😌✨ You can access all sessions and playback by joining the programme which has a rolling intake.

Once the programme is finished judges will make a decision on pitches to grant seed funding for 3 winners: £5,000 for the first place winner and £2,500 for the 2 runner-ups. The course is free too!

More info and to sign up on 💪

25/11/2023

We’re all set up for Artists Winter Market tomorrow Sunday 11am-4pm 🐾 It will be the first time you can get your hands on our ‘Make Your Own Doy Toy’ kits that come with materials, tutorial and a publication called ‘Make Dog and Mend’ all about being more sustainable with your toys ☺️🐕🥎 Kits come in ‘big gob’ and ‘little gob’ sizes depending on the size of your pet and their play style- andddddd a whole variety of colours of our gorgeous super soft but strong and stretchy fleecy fabric - for £12!! 🎁🎁🎁

16/11/2023

✨ Make Your Own Dog Toy ✨ Kits coming soon! We’ll be selling these at our studio winter market on 26th November 🎁❄️ ⁣
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We’ve designed ‘Big Gob’ and ‘Small Gov’ kits so you can make the perfect size tug toy for your hound. ⁣
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Currently we’re selling these first models for £10 which contain a guide and your materials. If these go well and there’s interest we’re going to publish a new mini publication alongside it about the history of dog toys, and we’ve got a tutorial video coming soon!⁣
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Everything is risograph printed with soya based inks on recycled paper of course and all the material for making is sourced from fleece offcuts (so super soft and stretchy but strong!) - which we have saved from landfill 🍃⁣
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Shall we put these on our online shop??? ⁣

09/07/2023

Our Frankenballs may be sold out on our own site while we have our heads down making a new collection (or three! 👀) but you can pick your doggo up their own unique art toy from the beautiful website, head to www.sticksandsocks.com and check out their huge selection of eco friendly toys, treats and accessories from a lush curated selection of sustainable and small brands 🧡✨🌳🦴🐕

31/05/2023

Put what you love on a plinth.

We’ve been quiet of late as we’re studio plotting, researching, making and finding plinths for our hounds on doggo walks for & Woolf, our endless inspiration.

Swipe for a double trouble shot.

03/04/2023

Spring has sprung and we’re heading to Modern this evening for our 2nd tender tug toy making workshop as part of their access hours programme.

We’ve got spotty style Yayoi Kusama fabric for the toys in an ode to her love of polka dots, and infinity.

We’ll return with more pupdates later! Swipe for a spring Woolfie surprise who has been sniffing the new flowers in the park today before we head into London 🌼 🐶

14/03/2023

Dog Ear @ !! Thank you to everyone who joined us for Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Room Access Hours ✨🦮💓 We made super soft rug toys and will be back on 3rd April 6-8pm for round 2 🫶 We made a handy guide to making these unique Kusama inspired tug toys you can pick up too for making at home- maybe we should create little DIY at home packs??? 🤔

09/03/2023

Big news!!! 🐾 We’ll be at TTateModern for their Access Hours opening of 'Kusama In America', 13th March + 3rd April 6-8pm making magical dog tug toys from offcuts of fleece and art blankets (we wonder what artworks these special blankets have touched in transit????) 🦴 🪡 ⁣
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No sewing involved! Super easy, and you can make them into infinity rings like Kusama herself. ⁣
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So lovely, as neurodivergent artists ourselves, to be hosting this space for disabled and neurodiverse visitors to experience the artist Yayoi Kusama’s work created while she lived in New York between 1957 and 1973 and create an ode to Yayoi’s love of doggos.⁣
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Full info:⁣
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“These events are organised and supported by neurodiverse aware Tate staff. Enjoy a quiet gallery environment with additional dedicated quiet zones, limited numbers of people and so very short or no queues, and the opportunity to go through the two installation rooms as many times as you would like.⁣
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These events are open to anyone who may be on the Autistic spectrum, has Tourette syndrome, ADD, ADHD, OCD, anxiety, sensory difficulties or disabilities.⁣
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On Monday 13th March 2023 and Monday 3rd April 2023, join us for an evening of dog toy making with artists Emma Edmondson and Lu Williams, who set up Dog Ear, a place for sculptural dogs toys and contemporary art publishing. Work with Dog Ear to create your own doggo toy sculpture inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s ideas around infinity nets and her love of dogs. Using recycled and off-cut materials, you will take home a handwoven tender tug toy or infinity tug hoop which you can also hide treats in to enrich your hound. There will also be a takeaway ‘how to’ so you can continue to make at home.”⁣
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link below!
you’ll go home with your free toy sculpture for your doggo to tug and hide treats in ✨

26/02/2023

Discovered the wonderful today in Norsey Woods, Billiericay! We needed a coffee and cake after our long walk and the doggos got to eat their pup cakes at home which went down a treat! It was £1 for two mini cakes which were demolished in seconds- see the following evidence. Now we know they’re there we’ll def be going earlier to get their afternoon tea!

22/02/2023

Happy birthday Poly ~ who is 3 today and forever inspires us at Dog Ear. We celebrated with doggo snax, chews and also a meaty walk along the Estuary this morning. 🎂 🐶 🎉 also wore their Poly trousers in celebration of this special day, swipe for a shot of these hand designed beauties!

We took January off for a restful break but now we’re back in the studio and developing some more dog art toys to play with ~ drop incoming!!!

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