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A fine porcelain tray decorated with blue pattern.

Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution

Paul Scott And Ann Linneman

Trees In A Willow Garden. Media file: Exhibition view by Helen Carnac.

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Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution

Project Summary

A touring exhibition from Craftspace curated with Helen Carnac.

The exhibition has now finished touring. Look out for links to recordings and notes from the slow summit.

The discussion continues at http://makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com/

See our blog at www.takingtime.org

Download the family activity guide here.

Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution 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 ascollective making and reworking everyday objects.

Craftspace has collaborated with the maker and academic Helen Carnac to develop the research, exhibition and its related events programme.

On the web

Find out more about Taking Time and get involved in these places:

Tweave

Tweave is an online interactive artwork by Amy Houghton and Ed Holroyd using Twitter to create a digitally woven textile.
See www.tweave.co.uk and follow @makewithtweave

Blogs

www.takingtime.org has current news about the exhibition and related events.

Discuss the ideas of the exhibition with others including artists and the exhibition curator at www.makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com

Facebook
Keep up to date at the Craftspace Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/

TwitterFollow Craftspace at @tweetcraftspace.
Use #takingtime to follow conversation about the exhibition.

Flickr
Join the Taking Time group and add your images.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/takingtime/
See how two of the artists recorded the progress of their work for the exhibition.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/takingtime-workinprogress/

“The Slow revolution is sweeping through our fast-forward culture as people everywhere discover that decelerating helps them work, play and live better. taking time exhibition shows how craft fits into this Slow culture-quake. It offers a thrilling reminder that every object has a story behind it and that the art of making matters hugely to all of us.”

Carl Honoré, Author of In Praise of Slow

Artists

Gary Breeze - Lettering Sculptor,

Neil Brownsword – Ceramics,

Sonya Clark-Hair, beading,

Rebecca Earley-Upcycling – fashion,

David Gates–Furniture,

Matthew Harris-Textile artist,

Amy Houghton-Animation: video and porcelain,

Sue Lawty–Textiles,

Elizabeth Turrell -Enamel artist,

Judith van den Boom & Gunter Wehmeyer-Slow design in China,

Heidrun Schimmel-Textile artist,

Paul Scott & Ann Linnemann –Ceramics,

Shane Waltener & Cheryl McChesney Jones -Participation & social engagement,

Esther Knobel–Jewellery,

Ken Eastman & Dawn Youll-Ceramics

Curation And Partners

Curated with Helen Carnac.

Contact

Artists and venues interested in the exhibition and its issues can contact Craftspace on 0121 608 6668.