Craft Really Works
Visitors to Craftworks 2024 can browse a fascinating feature showcase of craft as an activity for the wellbeing of society – Craft Really Works is a collection of projects and approaches from all parts of the UK that are focused on the many positive side effects of craft.
Woven Communities
The Woven Communities project grew out of an initiative and collaboration between a group of Scottish basketmakers, the Scottish Basketmakers Circle, and an anthropologist from the University of Saint Andrews, Dr Stephanie Bunn. The SBC’s aim was to collect together and document all the diverse research conducted about Scottish vernacular basketry.
Art At Work
ArtatWork is a not for profit Community Interest Company who offer arts activities as a means of promoting wellbeing, encouraging people to rediscover their creativity, in a fun and collaborative way, thus increasing good mental health.
Domestic Dusters
Domestic Dusters is a collaborative, creative and craft-based project that includes submissions from women from across the world and from many different backgrounds. Each participant has responded to the open provocation: Women and Domesticity – What’s your Perspective? by embroidering their experiences of domesticity onto a yellow dusting cloth. To date it includes 700+ dusters.
Art 4 Space
Art4Space is a non-profit Community Interest Company that promotes holistic wellness, social justice, and positive change through art and design education. They operate from an award-winning Community Arts Centre, where people of all backgrounds can express themselves through art and share their stories in a creative space.
Linen Biennale
The Linen Biennale provides a platform for ‘conversations’ about linen, and the role it has played in shaping Northern Ireland, celebrating our linen heritage as well as a desire to explore how flax and linen is now inspiring artists, makers, designers, performers and manufacturers.
Fabrications
Fabrications opened its doors in June 2000 and could be described as a mini department store of textile treasures, where gallery meets modern day haberdashery, whilst “sewing the seeds of creativity, mindful making and resourceful living in the hearts and hands of the community”.
ACEarts
Ace Arts promotes art and creative activity, to inspire, empower and enable people to develop and grow, by giving a platform to artists and makers, providing creative activities and courses for all ages and abilities and delivering creative projects focusing on community health and wellbeing.
Craftivist Collective
The Craftivist Collective is an inclusive group of people committed to using thoughtful, beautiful crafted works to help themselves and encourage others be the positive change they wish to see in the world.
Fine Cell Work
Fine Cell Work is a UK-based rehabilitation charity and social enterprise which makes beautiful handmade products in British prisons.
Amber Joy Creative Studio
Creative Facilitator offering craft courses for adult learning, charities, private and community projects; Amber specialises in teaching the historic crafts of marquetry and straw marquetry along with other creative courses such as furniture restoration, mosaic and crochet.
Mud Gang
Mud Gang Pottery is a female led ceramics studio, on a mission to make clay activities accessible to everyone; running as an inclusive space where people of all ages and abilities can learn about ceramic techniques, make beautiful things from clay and be free to express themselves creatively!
The River Clay Project
Creative technologist and chartered engineer Jude Pullen devised a DIY clay project teaching school children how to identify clay in a river bed, carefully excavate, and then process it into workable clay that they can then use to create their own ceramics.
Stitches of Support
Nightingale Cancer Support Centre improves the quality of life of cancer patients, their family and friends, by helping them cope with and come to terms with their cancer diagnosis.
