The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1UE
14 – 16 June 2024

The 2024 Sluice expo centres on the idea of the vernacular, exploring how culture can emerge and adapt in reaction to various influences, whether structural or ethical. The expo is an opportunity for a loosely defined sector, encompassing artist-led initiatives, curator-led projects, collectives, non-profit organisations and galleries to converge.

Sluice is a non-profit initiative based in the UK, led by artists and curators. Since 2011 Sluice has collaborated exclusively with other artist and curator-led projects, collectives and non-profit initiatives. They create multi-faceted events around the world, focusing on the local in a transnational context. Sluice vernacular was developed in partnership with the Minories.

Exhibiting artists: Ben Coode-Adams, Annabel Dover, Tristan Howe, Sara Impey, Alex Pearl and Freddie Robins.

Photography: Ben Coode-Adams

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99 Bishopsgate, London EC2
14 May – 26 September 2024

Craft Kills, held in the Crafts Council Collection, is exhibited as part of 5&20. The exhibition celebrates two shared milestones; five years of the Brookfield Properties Craft Award and 20 years of Collect Art Fair.

This one-off celebration show, supported with funding from London EC BID, exhibits over 30 artworks from Crafts Council collection, with a direct link to Collect. These objects, which form part the national collection for craft, include ceramics, jewellery, glass, bronze and textiles.

Photography: Douglas Atfield

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Compton Verney, Warwickshire CV35 9HZ
21 October 2023 – 11 February 2024

“Throughout human history, materials have been fashioned by skilled people into objects of beauty and utility. Wood, clay, stone, metal, textile and organic materials – these are the starting point of History in the Making, bringing together a treasure-trove of unique and fascinating objects.

From a monumental mid-17th century Mortlake tapestry, woven to a design by the great Italian Renaissance artist Raphael – on loan from Woburn Abbey for the first time – to expressive hand-painted silks by award-winning artist and designer Christian Ovonlen. Or precious 18th century silverware made by French Huguenot migrants, to highly personal glazed ceramic vessels by rising-star ceramic artist Shawanda Corbett. As well as recent creations by makers who are at the forefront of developing new materials and processes, from living textiles made from plant roots to 3D printed vessels made from recycled coffee cups.

History in the Making brings together outstanding examples of historic craft from the collection of Woburn Abbey, with recent creations by some of the most exciting makers working today from the collection of the Crafts Council. By presenting the historic and contemporary side-by-side the exhibition exploree changing attitudes towards materials over time, the importance of craft traditions for communities and the environmental impact of it. The exhibition also explores how scientific advances and innovative approaches to existing materials can offer more sustainable and planet-friendly methods of making.”

Exhibiting Craft Kills, 2002, machine knitted wool, knitting needles
2000 × 680 × 380 mm
In the collection of the Crafts Council, London

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Installation photography: Jamie Woodley

The Hepworth Wakefield
Gallery Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1 5AW
31 March 2023 – 15 October 2023
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London SW3 4RY
15 November 2023 – 22 January 2024

This exhibition presents the outcomes of a significant research project, Hepworth’s Progeny, hosted by The Hepworth Wakefield (2021-23) in collaboration with art historian Griselda Pollock and sculptor Lorna Green. The project generated a survey of women across Britain working in sculpture today and a comparative study with the stories of women who responded to a parallel survey issued by Lorna Green in 1988.

If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022 will invite audiences to consider issues of gender and time in order to suggest new narratives about sculpture by women in Britain during this period, looking at lives, work and social change. Selected from the nearly 320 artists who responded to the 1988 and 2022 surveys, the exhibition will present work by Phyllida Barlow, Glenys Barton, Helen Chadwick, Kim Lim, Veronica Ryan and Shelagh Wakeley, among many others.

Exhibiting Bad Mother, 2013, machine knitted wool and mixed media on maple wood shelf, 780 × 160 × 160 mm. On loan from Private Collection.

Photography: Douglas Atfield

Art Exchange, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
5 October – 17 November 2023

“I Put a Spell on You explores today’s growing affinity with magic, which coincides with a time when we’re experiencing a profound loss of faith in modern society. Rationalism, science and the ‘progress’ of the modern era have left us lurching from one crisis to the next, while climate catastrophe calls into question our relationship with planet Earth. Against this backdrop, magic offers us an alternative universe – a space where we can become re-enchanted with the world again.

The artists in this show embrace magic, myth and mysticism as they explore alternative ways of thinking and being. They are guided by the historic figure of the witch – always close at hand in Essex where hundreds stood accused.”

I Put a Spell on You includes work by Alice Bucknell, Juno Calypso, Leonora Carrington, Chiara Fumai, Serena Korda, Akinsola Lawanson, susan pui san lok, Freddie Robins and Tai Shani.

Curated by Jess Twyman
Photography: Douglas Atfield

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