Forgotten Skills
Fri 27 Sept
|Ashley Court
Join Nick Kary and Tom Allen as they talk about traditional skills and keeping them alive in the modern day.
Time & Location
27 Sept 2024, 15:00 – 16:00
Ashley Court, Ashley Court, Ashley, Tiverton EX16 5PD, UK
About The Event
Join us as Nick and Tom talk about how they keep their own skills alive and how we can too.
Nick Kary: Material
Throwing a pot. Building a bench. Sewing clothes. Creating a linocut illustration. Carving a spoon. What does it mean to make things with your hands in a digital age full of mass market, disposable items?
Through beautifully-crafted writing filled with memorable makers, landscapes, stories and scenery, is a rich celebration of what it means to imagine and create. Nick Kary champions the voices of artisans across the English landscape, from potters to woodworkers, and reminds us of the rich vein of knowledge and skills that defines our common human heritage.Material
Much in the vein of bestselling authors Lars Mytting, Robert Macfarlane and Barn the Spoon, craftsman Nick Kary explores what it means to be a maker, where the fluid creative act becomes manufacturing, and what it means…