Aunty Dolly's Clay Pots

Celebrate the vibrant essence of Caribbean culture in Yorkshire with the award-winning Helen France MBE, a proud member of the Windrush Generation from Nevis. 

Her prints and mixed-media exhibition, "Aunt Dolly's Clay Pots," pays tribute to the sustainable craftsmanship of her Aunt Dolly, a visionary craftswoman dedicated to empowering local women through the art of clay pot crafting and earning their own money.

Textile Craft Social

Thread Collective socials are inclusive, friendly spaces for like-minded people to be creative together. Bring your own projects to work on; we welcome every kind of textile craft from embroidery and knitting to needle-felting and weaving. Come and join our creative community!

Whether you’re an experienced maker or picking up a craft for the first time, you’re very welcome to our collective

You can find us upstairs on the 1st floor. Ask a member of staff and they will direct you upstairs where Hayley and Rowan will be there to greet you

IEOGM (The Concept Horse & Marie Vermont) / LIMP MODE (Craig Stewart Johnson & Posset) / CC V

IEOGM is the duo project of Marie Vermont and the concept horse, founded in Vienna in 2022. Working with a shifting range of electronic, electro-acoustic, and tape-based objects and devices, IEOGM has released numerous albums and collaborative compositions on labels such as Molt Fluid, Beach Buddies Records, Steep Gloss, eë ed
https://marievermont.world/ieogm/ieogm.html

If Walls Could Talk: A symposium on Chinese wallpaper and creativity

Join us at this symposium to explore the meaning, materiality and making of Chinese export wallpaper throughout history.

Artists, academics and conservators will explore the meaning, materiality and making of Chinese export wallpaper throughout history, and how participatory approaches with communities and students can open up new dialogues in heritage spaces.

Speakers

Xiaofan Zhang: The Cross-Cultural Generative Mechanism of Chinese Wallpaper

Sève Favre: Wallpaper and Invasive Plants — A Shared Colonial History