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A beacon of hope, protest & progressive thought nestled in the unnatural beauty that is Rockaway Park

29/09/2026

Everyone is a terrorist nowadays..is the latest addition to The Rockaway Park Automata Protest Collection to be exhibited in The Chapel of Unrest. UK artist, Giles Walker, has chosen the recent Palestine Action protest movement as his subject matter. This piece will sit alongside other automata artworks portraying various protest movements throughout British history. In this growing collection, other artists have contributed work based on protest movements including The Luddites, The Diggers, Black Lives Matter and The Suffragettes.
The exhibition has been curated by automata genius, and resident artist, Fi Henshaw. Each commissioned artwork will be a piece of coin operated automata representing a protest movement from British history. Audiences of all ages can enjoy engaging with the work and, at the same time, learn about the historical context of each protest, and its consequences. The exhibition as a whole will examine the social value of protest and the importance of its survival.
(We consider the piece EVERYONE IS A TERRORIST NOWADAYS to be a legitimate contribution to the collection because, whatever the current political climate, we could not produce a collection of work that focused on British protest and ignore the biggest mass arrest in modern UK history. We are not in the game of rewriting history.)

In this growing collection, other artists will contribute work based on protest movements including Black Lives Matter, The Greenham women and The Suffragettes.

The Chapel of Unrest began as a minor skirmish with local authority.
This Automata project is one of the current stages of it’s development.
The chapel is currently funded entirely by membership and donations. Follow the links at the end to learn more, join in and help build it.

29/09/2026

Here's a trailer for a project we are working on at The Chapel of Unrest. If you go to YouTube and type in Rockaway Park you should find the rest of it.. and then find your way to the Chapel website and help us build it
https://youtu.be/JfFYbWwZHDo?si=zLAGpk7m3MLDoKfQ

26/09/2026

If you're new here there's a whole lot of history of the chapel at chapelofunrest.com but I wanted to share a few thoughts.. this whole thing started off as a p**s take. There was no serious intention and not much thought behind it
But an idea has ideas of its own..
A couple of weeks back someone got in touch to say their friend was on his death bed and he wanted to go down still fighting the status quo and he wanted us to send him a shirt to wear en route.. he wrote to send me his photo and I wrote back... But I haven't had a reply...
Back in the 80's he helped write a book called Engineers of the Imagination (amongst other things) and he had previously sent me a copy... It is a manual for trouble causers and a guide to making political props etc
I started drafting a reply and got distracted by finding pictures of other interesting characters who help form the "Congregation of Agitation". Amongst them the guy that wrote the string arrangements for 'Angie' by the Rolling Stones... Of course we all have a story to tell and none are more important than any other, but I loved that song so it stayed with me.
I suppose what I'm trying to articulate is we are all bound together.. the chapel was meant to be a joke.. but we're not a joke ...and thank you all so much for being part of it... We're thinking of ways that we could celebrate each other in death as in life and we're open to hearing your ideas. Love to All Mark. And all the love to Tony.... Onwards❤️

19/08/2026

09/03/2026

Welcome to The Chapel of Unrest, Rockaway’s monument to non-conformity, diversity and creativity.

We’ve had lots of new followers recently so thought we’d try to explain what the Chapel actually is… which is slightly tricky, because like Rockaway itself it’s not the easiest thing to sum up.

Despite the name, the Chapel of Unrest has nothing to do with religion. It’s a crowd-funded monument to non-conformity, diversity and creativity, built slowly by a community of people who believe in doing things a little differently.

The idea for the Chapel was born from a struggle with the authorities, and it now stands as a small symbol of hope in a world that can often feel pretty hopeless.

Like everything at Rockaway, it’s a work in progress. It’s being built bit by bit, shaped by the people who care about it and want to see it grow.

All the money raised through memberships and support goes directly into building the Chapel itself, helping the project continue to evolve.

If you like the idea of spaces that celebrate creativity, community and doing things your own way, you’ll probably like the Chapel of Unrest.

Head to our bio if you’d like to find out more or get involved.

Thanks for being here with us.

21/02/2026

It's been a while!

Don't worry we've been busy. Indigo has been working with Mark on the Rockaway Museum Project and as part of capturing these stories sat down with .henshall.automata who is working on a very special automata project funded by our Chapel Members.

Head over to the link in the picture to read the full article, it's not behind a paywall, you can access all the content for free including podcasts and often bits are launched there first.

See you soon!

27/01/2026

Don't forget to book your tickets for this weekend!

Optional vegan roast but warming good vibes and chat definitely included.

Tickets https://hdfst.uk/secret/8dfnb572av

23/01/2026

Chapel t-shirt spotted on BBC local news

Rich and Jeanette who are talking to Swindon council about adult social care (re their son,Billy). They came and stayed at Rockaway a few months back. Funny because I was talking to BANES today about us helping provide social care 🙂

We love seeing our Chapel members in the wild, remember to send us pictures

10/01/2026

We've been a bit quiet of late but we're back in on a collaboration with to do some fundraising!

If you make a donation of £6 or more on this posts fundraiser and send us your address we'll pop you one of these beauties in the post direct to your door. These are limited to the first 48 donations so be quick!

RADICAL LEFT SCUM.

Printed in response to Trump’s Christmas greeting on the 30th of December at Rockaway Park, using an antique Farley 24 proofing press and moveable metal letterpress type.

Generic 72pt grot on 21cm x 15cm 125g Neon Flash.

Fundraising for who have been serving food in Calais and Northern France since 2015. Since the Calais Jungle was demolished theh have been forced to constantly adapt our distribution points and styles. Theh currently serve food wherever we can find a safe place for people to congregate in the Calais and Dunkirk regions.

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Rockaway Park, Eastcourt Road

BS395BU

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Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00
Saturday	09:00 - 17:00
Sunday	09:00 - 17:00

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