Taking Time Craft and the Slow Revolution 2 April - 6 June 2010
A touring exhibition from Craftspace curated with Helen Carnac
Taking Time takes as its starting point the issues emerging from the Slow Movement, which developed as a response to our increasingly fast lifestyles and our unsustainable consumer culture.
Slowness is also associated with craft skills: skill which is acquired over time, something that cannot be rushed and is intuitively learned. Many makers today are developing critical positions in response to our consumer behaviour; questioning modes of production through new processes, looking at issues of stewardship and sustainability, as well as collective making and reworking everyday objects. Nineteen international contemporary makers and artists reflect on a slow revolution considering ideas around time and process, material and value, site and locality, relationships to community and the changing nature of production and consumption.
The exhibition aims to show that contemporary craft practice and its methodologies can generate a modern and timely response to current social debates. Artists: Judith van den Boom & Gunter Wehmeyer, Gary Breeze, Neil Brownsword, Sonya Clark, Rebecca Earley, Ken Eastman & Dawn Youll, David Gates, Matthew Harris, Amy Houghton, Sue Lawty, Esther Knobel, Heidrun Schimmel, Paul Scott & Ann Linnemann, Elizabeth Turrell, Shane Waltner & Cheryl McChesney Jones
Sue Lawty wil be giving a talk in the gallery on 24 April 2010, see Talks and Tours for more details.
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