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The Horniman’s new exhibition: Stages of Making

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19 Oct '19

Stages of Making is free to visit and will be open in The Studio from 19 October 2019 to 19 April 2020:

Wire weaving sample, Stages of Making, Robbie McKane

Visitors to the Horniman Museum and Gardens are invited to step into a new installation where all the artworks have a story to tell about design, techniques and materials, and where visitors are invited to ‘make’ as part of the show.

The Horniman’s new exhibition Stages of Making, opening on 19 October 2019 , turns the tables on conventional museum exhibits. Rather than being solely focused on finished works, it places the materials, acts and processes of making things centre stage.

Stages of Making is co-produced by a collective of nine local community members working with artist Katie Schwab, who have taken inspiration from the Horniman’s anthropology collection, the design history of the Horniman site and its stores. Exhibits are displayed at various points of production – from different materials, many sourced locally, and experimental samples through to completed works including a large rag rug – with the surrounding walls painted in colours referencing the palette of a geological timescale in the Horniman’s Natural History Gallery.

The full press release is at https://www.horniman.ac.uk/get_involved/news/making-takes-centre-stage-in-hornimans-immersive-exhibition

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