Broken / Makeshift - Exhibition Launch Event & Repair Shop

Broken / Makeshift is an exhibition that celebrates contemporary craft by finding the beauty in everyday objects and explores how our emotional attachment to them can survive a break, fracture, or tear.

The show and surrounding programme will highlight modern and historic methods of mending, inviting a conversation about how our relationship to things has changed since the popularisation of mass-production and the recent resurgence of upcycling, repurposing, and repair.

Visit the exhibition during its opening day on 11th October for an opportunity to meet some of the exhibiting artists and bring your own objects to get mending advice from a group of incredible local craftspeople who will be demonstrating their repair techniques throughout the afternoon.

Demonstrations

12:00 - 14:00 - Kintsugi with Amelia Jane

13:30 - 15:30 - Visible clothing mending with Carolann J Allan

14:30 - 16:30 - Jewellery repair with Emma White

Drop-in Workshop

Get involved in a free family-friendly craft activity at our drop-in table.

Drinks & Snacks

Our Tea Room will be open, selling a range of hot and cold drinks and cakes.

Gallery Shop

The Gallery Shop will be open all day, selling a range of books and prints relevant to the exhibition, along with our usual shop set up, featuring the work of a wide range of small businesses and makers.

Exhibiting artists

Abdulrazaq Awofeso

Amelia Frances Wood

Bridget Harvey

David Fox & Liz O'Connell

Grace Clifford

Isabel Fletcher

Isobel Jane Kimberley

Jo Pond

Megan Preston-Davies

Molly Rooke

Polite Rebellion

Rachel Anzalone

Rosie Vohra

Zoë Hillyard

Zoe Phillips

Accessibility

This event will be held in the Gallery which is located on Farsley Town Street. The main entrance on Town Street has a flight of stairs. The Gallery can also be reached by a flat access entrance to the rear of the building, through the Mills’ Main Yard. There are several disabled toilets on site, as well as free accessible parking.

Quiet spaces will be available during the event, please find a member of staff for support on the evening.

Please contact us ahead of time if you have any access requirements you'd like us to be aware of, or if you require BSL interpretation or a hearing loop for this event.

Host or Publisher Sunny Bank Mills Gallery