15 January 2010 - 20 March 2010

Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution

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, 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.

IC and Dovecot Studios are proud to host this Craftspace exhibition which brings together artists, makers and designers whose making practice and work connects with these ideas.  In different and sometimes overlapping ways they examine the world through making and in places quietly ask questions about global and local conditions that we find ourselves in today.  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

Taking Time Blog: www.takingtime.org
Making A Slow Revolution Blog : www.makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com