6.30 – 8.30pm

Tickets coming soon

Celia Pym’s NOW Gallery exhibition SOCKS: The Art of Care and Repair, focuses on mending holes in socks – extending their use and being creative with stitches. Pym says: “It is a small act of care to mend a hole in your sock or the sock of some you love. It has a ripple-like effect. Caring for something or someone is expansive, it sets in motion something else you can’t anticipate, a gift in return, a care felt in yourself, a resilience in yourself to understand that mending is a constant action that changes the thing in front of you it does not erase damage but makes the story more interesting. A spot of bright colour or scar-like line that indicates your small of care.”

The in-conversation event will focus on the importance of textiles and craft education; power of learning sewing and manual craft skills from a young age; and creative acts of mending your clothes to shift our relationships with clothing, consumption and waste.