Celebration of Repair

Makers, menders & materials: part III, Street Gallery, University of Exeter, Devon

Makers, menders & materials: part I, South West Image Bank, Plymouth, Devon

Makers, menders & materials: part II Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset

Mend*rs Research Symposium, Docker, Kendall

Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) conference, St Austell, Cornwall

Makers, menders & materials: part IV, Old Press Gallery, St Austell, Cornwall. Photo: Oli Udy

Show and Tell

The images and texts created during the Small is Beautiful? project travelled around the South West in 2011/12.

Everywhere they went they sparked lively conversations about the value of mending and repair skills, throw-away culture and the coming transition, the aesthetics of work, micro-economies, family memories and the smell of old tools (among other things).

Makers, menders & materials: part I
South West Image Bank, Plymouth, Devon.
24 June 2011 - 22 July 2011

Makers, menders & materials: part II
Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset.
23 September 2011 - 15 October 2011

Makers, menders & materials: part III
University of Exeter, Devon.
11 April 2012 - 25 April 2012

International Visual Methods Conference Open University, Milton Keynes 13 - 15 July 2011

Mend*rs Research Symposium, Docker, Kendall 29 June 2012 - 2 July 2012

Makers, menders & materials: part IV, Old Press Gallery, St Austell, Cornwall.