Helen Carnac, who curated the Taking Time exhibition with us has been doing a good job of keeping the makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com blog. There’s a linked twitter account for discussion on the issues in the exhibition http://twitter.com/makeaslowrevolt.

She is also working on another online project with Axis which looks interesting. It also includes work by Taking Time artist Amy Houghton. More here….

Catherine Bertola, Andrew Burton, Julie Cook, Shelly Goldsmith, Amy Houghton and Jill Townsley

Curated by Helen Carnac

Searching the Axis website, with the broad idea of finding innovative or contemporary approaches to craft and object making, has been an interesting process. The Crafts may be seen to be in a state of flux – the teaching of material based subjects is in upheaval, subject to budget cuts and in some places seen as an outmoded form of practice, and its need to be understood as a thinking process is somewhat denied. For me what cannot be denied is that making does offer both maker and viewer crucial ways of thinking, and that contemporary craft and object-making is acknowledged as important in the visual arts world and beyond.

http://www.axisweb.org/atSelection.aspx?AID=2418

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