What Is Precious?

A new edition of Design-Nation's touring exhibition, which challenges our perceptions of material value through the lens of sustainability and contemporary craft.

What is Precious? was developed through Design-Nation’s Sustainability and Ethical Practice group, established in 2021 to explore issues of sustainability, ethics and environmental responsibility within contemporary craft and design.

Creative Industries Trafford is working with Design-Nation to produce a third iteration of its successful exhibition, bringing together a curated selection of Design-Nation members, whose practices explore the idea of perceived material value. Centred around recycling and repurposing, the exhibition looks to question what we as humans value in a throw away society and start to change the conversation.

Design-Nation is one of the UK's leading organisations dedicated to supporting contemporary craft and design.

Selected Artists

Jane Bevan / Liz Blyth / Caroline Brogden / Tracy Caldah / Nerissa Cargill Thompson

Xinyi Chen / Denise Coupland / Su France / Kerry Hastings

Yuka Jourdain / Kate Kato / Matt Kavanagh / Joanne Lamb / Hannah Lane

Penny Maltby / Mandy Nash / Lucy Newman / Kathryn Stevens / Rosalind Stoddart

Carola van Dyke / Karen Whiterod