Sustainability in Craft: Conversation from the Floor
facilitated by Imogen Taylor-Noble
Wednesday 12 July, 11am - 12pm | FREE
Photo credit: Dom Moore
Join in a conversation with fellow makers airing some of the challenges and sharing ideas surrounding sustainability in craft.
As makers in a time of climate crisis many of us are trying to find ways to make our practices more sustainable, but we are doing this largely on our own. Trying to fathom out how to say aligned to our values while using sometimes finite or planet harming resources.
Come and join in a conversation with fellow makers airing some of the challenges and sharing ideas in an informal setting, facilitated by Imogen Taylor-Noble. We will spark our conversation in the current Summer Show exhibition, where many challenges but also solutions are on display.
This will be a conversation among makers, intended to be supportive and validating. A space to share the experience of being a maker and to make connections with others on this journey to reducing our impact while maintaining our passion for our practice.
About the Facilitator
Imogen Taylor-Noble
Ceramicist, MAKE Southwest Maker Member, Pledged Green Maker
Imogen's work is process led and based in material practice. She is interested in the extremes of the materials she works with: clay and fire, and aims for the essential qualities of plastic clay and extreme heat of the kiln to remain visible in the finished piece. Her work aims to create a space for contemplation and re-connection to the planet and to our role as it's temporary stewards.
Imogen’s recent Maker Showcase exhibition at MAKE Southwest explored issues of sustainability, environmental impact, and regeneration, and finding ways to share the responsibility for making art. The body of work exhibited forms part of an enquiry into what it means to me to be a ceramicist in this time of climate emergency. It has required me to expand my practice into areas and ideas new to me and represents part of an ongoing creative process.
Imogen’s work is on display in the Summer Show 2023 exhibition on at MAKE Southwest until 2 September 2023.