Women’s Work

Summer 2018

The National Centre for Craft and Design

Sleaford, Lincolnshire

Women's Work brought together an eclectic mix of pioneering women working at the forge, the bench and with modern technology. The exhibition glimpsed into the world of female blacksmiths, stone carvers and 3D printers and explored the exciting forms they create in jewellery, vessels, installations and furniture. It championed crafts which feature on The Radcliffe Red List of Endangered Crafts such as blacksmithing, wood working and leather working. Artists Included were Elizabeth Armour, Sally Burnett, Tania Clarke Hall, Agnes Jones, Liz Middleton and Bex Simon.

The exhibition also featured a behind-the-scenes look into the artists’ and makers’ processes, with rare images of their work spaces and the very tools they used to make with. On display were also samples of artworks still in the process stages that visitors could handle, all offering a unique glimpse of the creative process.