'the shape of things' was a national craft initiative which supported culturally diverse artists to make and show significant new work; which developed new audiences for contemporary craft; and which stimulated debate about diversity in craft. This site provides a lasting legacy and archive for the main programme which finished in June 2012
Shape of Things - Halima Cassell from Be Inspired Films on Vimeo.
Halima Cassell talks about her work. Thanks to Touchstones Rochdale for this film.
details about 'the shape of things' from stats to the audience development framework...
the exhibitions extended our crafts audiences and our audiences from diverse communities...
has a history of exhibiting work by Black and Asian artists and in the past has shown work by...
Wahid's work is intensely personal. It communicates instantly her need to express...
the exhibition here meant that the initiative could engage with a privately run gallery and...
the experiment is running now, the reactants and their medium are selected...
both sets of work are extremely moving and beautiful. An exhibition to engage both the emotions and the intellect...
I want to prove that craft can step out of its domestic environment to engage with a wider public audience...
this has given me time to examine the cultural legacy of my Iranian heritage and how that makes itself visible in my practice...
just like the differently coloured and contrastingly textured clays hewn from the Earth we are all of one substance, despite our superficial differences...
with 3D Design Craft Students at De Montfort University, Leicester...
when I record words, I create something; a tangible paragraph that no one else can replicate...
I was introduced to new ways of thinking and practices, a fact that was amazing...
describes how the fusion of her Vietnamese and French background and cultural experience...
the role of exhibition in provoking thought is at the core of achieving the ambitions for 'the shape of things'...
a quick tour of Alinah Azadeh's exhibition at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery...
upholds the re-use, repair and value of handwork with materials sourced from her family and friends...
timelapse of his exhibition installation at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery...
is interested in the sculptural potential of functional objects and investigating the notion of cultural identity and the artist...
we met just as I had started wearing the headscarf and was being seen as a 'muslim artist', which I am, but not just that...
