Crafted

Crafted is a collaboration between Hampshire Cultural Trust, which operates the Willis Museum, and the Hampshire and Berkshire Guild of Craftsmen.

Running until 17 July 2022, the exhibition brings together 22 artists from the guild, who have created pieces especially for the exhibition, drawing on their specialist skills to express their ideas of beauty in wood, metal, textiles and ceramics.

The exhibition celebrates the importance of craft to our history, both the innate human desire to create, and the recognition that a handmade object crafted from raw materials speaks to us in a deeply resonant way, with admiration for how materials can be transformed in the hands of a skilled maker. Recent times have whetted the appetite for the handmade and sparked a renewed interest in the hands-on alchemy of materials and skills, familiar and mysterious at the same time.