Curated with maker Helen Carnac Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution brings together nineteen international artists, makers and designers to reflect on the slow revolution and consider 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 can generate a modern and timely response to current social debates.

Time has an important emphasis in the exhibition - the works invite the viewer to question notions of time - ‘what does time feel like?’ or ‘how do I understand my own time or my place within time?’ We also hope that within the exhibition space the viewer can forget the seconds, minutes and hours of everyday life, not needing to ask ‘how long did it take to make?’ but being encouraged to find a temporary place for time to think through and be absorbed by the work.

“Both [Craft and the Slow Movement] think through where things are made and by whom and engage in ideas of provenance - being immersed in a rich narrative of human experience. Asking us to slow down, perhaps not literally but certainly philosophically, and to reflect on other and perhaps more thoughtful ways of doing things.” Helen Carnac (2009), Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Conversation with Helen Carnac and Emma Daker

7.30pm Wednesday, 4 August

Helen Carnac will give a talk about her curation of the current Craftspace exhibition Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution, drawing on its associated projects, viewers’ responses to the work and its development over the course of the exhibition’s eight venue tour. This will be followed by a walk through the exhibition with Helen and the exhibition’s manager Emma Daker.

Workshops with Va Va Voom Vintage

2-4pm commencing Saturday, 7 August | Cost: £30

In connection with Taking Time, Millennium Court is running a vintage clothing class that invites you to explore vintage treasures. The class will explore ‘retro silhouettes’ - innovative design and old-fashioned chic - to gain experience in creating individual, vintage-inspired couture.

Upcycled Jewellery

11 – 3pm Saturday, 14 August | Cost: £20

Design & create contemporary jewellery using recycled plastic bags

Kids & Clay

2-3.30pm Monday-Friday, 2 August – 6 August | 8-12 years

Cost: £30 per child

Kids will have fun learning to coil a pot, modelling a figure or throwing a pot on the potter’s wheel.