October Craft Month
Farnham 2021
During October UCA will link up with Farnham Craft Town to contribute to its programme of events for Farnham’s Craft Month. Throughout the month you can take part in a variety of UCA led activities designed for you to develop your crafting skills and interests; discover professional makers, visit exhibitions of artists’ work, and listen to some of England’s very best craftspeople discuss their work.
Event details
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1 October 2021 - 31 October 2021
10:00-16:00 (GMT)
UCA Farnham
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Exhibition: Practice as Research – PhD Work in Progress
University for the Creative Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham GU9 7DS
1st – 29th October, Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm
FREE
An exhibition of practice-based research by a group of UCA PhD students. This work explores the processes involved in art-based research through the use of diverse approaches in the areas of textiles, printmaking, sculpture, photography moving image and sound.
Exhibition: Caroline Bartlett: A Restless Dynamic
Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham GU9 7DS
21st September – 11th December, Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
FREE
Showcasing new work by Caroline Bartlett, this exhibition explores ideas around continuity and change as current circumstances prevent actual access and handling, alongside the work ‘Stilled’, a site-sensitive response to the Spinning Room at Salts Mill for the exhibition ‘Cloth and Memory’.
Curated by Professor Lesley Millar, Director of the International Textile Research Centre.
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Exhibition: Presence and Absence
Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham GU9 7DS
5th October 2021 – 6th August 2022, Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
FREE
Curated by Deirdre Figueiredo with Dr Stephen Knott, this exhibition responds to the gaps in the CSC collections, speaking to the lack of a full diversity in collecting and establishing a profound benchmark for a new collecting regime.
Professor Glenn Adamson Webinar: Lipstick Traces – Encounters in the Object Archives
6th October, 2pm – 3pm
FREE
The Crafts Study Centre is the memory bank for British craft, an invaluable repository of things, words and ideas. In this webinar, Glenn Adamson will delve into this rich resource, offering thoughts on craft as a discipline of making in the moment and keeping in the mind.
To book visit: www.csc.uca.ac.uk/programme
50th Birthday Lecture for the founding of the Crafts Study Centre
UCA Lecture Theatre, University for the Creative Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham GU9 7DS
20th October, 6:30pm – 8pm
Admission free but numbers are limited.
Chair of the Crafts Study Centre, Alison Britton, will give this special lecture celebrating the founding of the centre on 1st April 1970. The lecture will reflect on the story and study of craft and her own curatorial projects for the CSC, offering a personal insight into the collections and archives.
To Book visit: www.csc.uca.ac.uk/programme
Exhibition: Pippa Ward: Say it with Plastic
New Ashgate Gallery
21 August to 6 November 2021, Tue-Sat, 10.30-17.00
Free
University for the Creative Arts alumnus, Pippa Ward, focuses on the environment and humankind’s inevitable impact on nature by using single-use materials in her works. She uses these disposable materials and objects that do untold damage to our environment if discarded and used carelessly. Plastic's unimaginably long lifespan, coupled with how casually we, as a society treat it, becomes a perfect metaphor for our almost blind overconsumption of the material.