Creation Station | Follow your Feelings

A creative activity exploring how you are feeling today.

Visit the Creation Station to contribute to a collective artwork that relates to the artworks in the exhibition Counterparts: Expanded Textile Practices by Hannah Gartside and Britt Salt.

Hannah Gartside creates sculptures, installations and quilts. She uses found fabrics and clothing as a starting point for her work. These items have the history of the person who wore the clothing. By cutting, stitching and sculpting this fabric Hannah gives new meaning and life to the clothing expressing feelings of care, love, tenderness and sometimes anger.

Britt Salt creates tapestry, drawing, installation and public art. In her sculptural work and site-specific installations, materials including thread, vinyl and aluminium are drawn, folded and woven into shapes and patterns, creating spaces that gently shift with the viewers’ movement and interaction.

When everyone has added their feelings, Follow Your Feelings will be a joyous collective artwork that shows how our community is feeling and how they have responded to this exhibition.

Our Creation Station is a free art making activity space for children and all ages. All materials are supplied and you can stay as little or as long as you like. The Creation Station is accessible at anytime during gallery opening hours.

Hannah Gartside, The Sleepover, 2018-2019, found nighties and slips c.1965-1980 (detail), found synthetic fabric and cotton ribbon, milliner’s wire, thread (with assistance from Monika Holgar, Louise Meuwissen, Melanie Ward, Kate Woodcroft), 670 x 280 x 210cm.