Surrey Craft Legacies: Heritage and Endangered Skills, Living Traditions
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New Ashgate Gallery
Waggon Yard
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7PS
Surrey Craft Legacies is a heritage craft exhibition at New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham, England's World Craft Town.
Surrey Craft Legacies is a heritage craft exhibition at New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham, England's World Craft Town. It celebrates traditional and endangered craft skills, from historic stained glass window making, silk weaving, rush basketry, brush making and encaustic tile making to jewellery, woodturning, tapestry and studio glass.
The exhibition brings together work by skilled craftspeople from across the UK who have shared their knowledge in Farnham and Surrey. Their work is shown alongside oral history films, photographs and handmade objects created through community workshops. Together, these works reveal the knowledge held in materials, tools and hand skills, and show how craft traditions are learned, adapted and passed on.
Featured makers include Adam Aaronson, Lydia Asscher, Jill Billings, Jane Browne, Caroline Egleston, Rosa Harradine, Sheila McDonald, Ella Merriman, Rachel Mulligan, Casandra Ponta, Fiona Rutherford, Martin Saban-Smith, Jessica Stroud, Jonathan Waights, Carolyn Wallis, Rae Weaver, Rosie Wesley and Anne Wolf.
Through workshops, oral histories and film, the project explores how heritage crafts continue to support learning, wellbeing and community connection today. The films and workshop resources will also form part of a free digital archive with Surrey History Centre, preserving these stories and skills for future learners, researchers and communities.
Led by New Ashgate Gallery. Funded by the Community Foundation for Surrey, made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, and developed with the involvement of Farnham Assist, Farnham Library, Hale Community Centre and DAiSY.
Future dates
- Wednesday 22nd July 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Thursday 23rd July 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Friday 24th July 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Saturday 25th July 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Tuesday 28th July 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Wednesday 29th July 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Thursday 30th July 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Friday 31st July 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Saturday 1st August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Tuesday 4th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Wednesday 5th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Thursday 6th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Friday 7th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Saturday 8th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Tuesday 11th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Wednesday 12th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Thursday 13th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Friday 14th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Saturday 15th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Tuesday 18th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Wednesday 19th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Thursday 20th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Friday 21st August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Saturday 22nd August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Tuesday 25th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Wednesday 26th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Thursday 27th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Friday 28th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Saturday 29th August 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Tuesday 1st September 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Wednesday 2nd September 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Thursday 3rd September 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Friday 4th September 10:00am until 4:00pm
- Saturday 5th September 10:00am until 4:00pm
