Coming Soon

Sprung 24

Free entry

Sprung 24 is a group exhibition of young and emerging artists from throughout Southern England. The makers, at various points along their creative careers, have been sharing their practices and each submitted multiple recent pieces of work for this diverse and exciting new show.

The exhibition works in collaboration with our friends and colleagues at SVA through the ever-brilliant SITE Festival Open Studios.

Get to know your Sewing Machine

£52/£49(c) • Friends £50/£47(c)

Calling all wannabe sewing bees! Today’s workshop is just the tickets for those who have an old sewing machine gathering dust. Maybe you’ve inherited a sewing machine and want to learn to use it? Or perhaps you simply want to get started on your sewing journey, to brush up on a few skills. Claire Parry leads today’s session, during which we’ll be working with simple pattern cutting skills; our end goal is a fabulous, lined make-up bag with zip. All those brilliant skills executed by you on your machine!

Firelight Trio

£16/£13(c) • Friends £14/£11(c)

Meet Firelight Trio. Three 'musical giants' collaborate to explore and celebrate European music that is evocative, inventive, and endlessly exciting.

Ruth’s resonant nyckelharpa (a bowed instrument, originally built & played by farmers and craftspeople in the northern Uppland in Sweden) is matched by Gavin’s powerhouse fiddle, all backed up by Phil’s splendidly inventive accordion and piano, to create a rich, resonant tapestry of lively Swedish polskas and Scottish reels, lilting French waltzes, toe-tapping klezmer, dazzling original tunes and more.

Weaving on a Body-tensioned Loom

£70/£67(c) • Friends £68/£65(c)

Enjoy a mindful and richly rewarding day of working in “slow textiles” with the ever-brilliant textile artist Rebecca Connolly.

As you learn the key skills of weaving, design and use of colour in weave, you’ll create a handful of pieces of woven fabric; the outcome being an experimental sampler, some ‘conventional’ cloth or a decorative hanging to adorn your home.

Glass Bouquet

£72/£69(c) • Friends £70/£67(c)

In today’s mixed media workshop led by glass artist Caroline Lambert, you will be using wire, copper and glass to learn a variety of great techniques. Learn how to hand-shape wire and all about copper-foiling, soldering and the use of patina as you create your bouquet of flowers and foliage. We’ll be taking our inspiration from the natural forms found in UK hedgerows, flower gardens and the landscape. By the end of the session, you will have created a wonderful display of beautiful everlasting flowers.