40 Objects for 40 Years
Installation Toolbag
Our toolbag is definitely one of our most important objects. This well-used and essential kit has supported the installation of over 500 exhibitions and projects over our 40 years.
Not having our own venue, we show our work in collaboration with others. We’ve worked with galleries, art centres, community centres, schools, leisure centres, care homes, parks, businesses, railway stations, churches, libraries, empty shops, on a van… and our touring exhibition partnerships are key to our practice.
Installing exhibitions is hard work! We love working with venues and being part of the team that does the practical work to actually get the exhibition on display after the months of organising and deskwork.
The bag is currently ready and waiting for the end of the Made in the Middle tour. It will be a big task, dismantling this large exhibition and making sure everything that can be is reused or recycled.
Nominated by: Emma Daker, Exhibitions and Projects Development Manager
To celebrate Craftspace’s 40th Anniversary, we commissioned the artist Stewart Francis Easton to create an artwork which would explore the story of Craftspace through 40 objects. Stewart created a series of four beautiful graphic quilts. You can see them at MAC until 12 April.
