Arts and Culture

What Is Precious?

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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

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A hand holding a small vase
Image supplied by Waterside Arts Centre
Location
Waterside
Date
17 August – 3 October
Time
Multiple sessions — see below
Where held
In person only
Age range
Ages 12-100
Price
Free

Upcoming sessions

  • 5 September 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • 7 September 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • 8 September 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • 9 September 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • 10 September 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Showing the next 5 of 25 sessions.

  • Family friendly
  • Toilets
  • Café on site
  • Gift Shop
Waterside

1 Waterside Plaza
Sale
M33 7ZF

01619125616

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