Recalling the Wool & Water Festival from September 2019
A celebration of art, craft and heritage. Stroudwater Textile Trust and the Cotswolds Canal Trust have come together with the Museum in the Park and other organisations to celebrate the area’s long history of wool and waterways.The Wool & Water Festival includes a wide variety of exhibitions, events and activities.
‘Man with Prize Sheep c.1800, unknown artist. STGCM 1967.119/1 © Museum in the Park, Stroud’
Material Flow - Museum in the Park
Considering Stroud’s woollen cloth industry and the worlds within Curator: Patricia Brien. Artists throughput the UK are invited to create work responding to articles that demonstrate our rich textile heritage. The exhibition is curated by Patricia Brien and we are grateful to the Museum for hosting this exciting event. Read more
The View from Newark Park’s Gallery
Beguiling Books - Newark Park
Book Artists create works of wonder in response to the Stroudwater Navigation Archive Charity’s documents and artefacts held at Gloucestershire Archives.
Curator: Tonia Maddison
Edhe of Cranham Wood by Lucy Guenot©
Ghost Mills - SVA
Walking The Land, as painters, sculptors, photographers, videographers, curators, academics and educators produce work which refers to specific places, localities and environments, combining art and walking. This exhibition reflects a specific walk for the Festival, à la recherche du temps perdu.
Members’ Exhibition: Lansdown Gallery
The Members of the Stroudwater Textile Trust will be responding to the Festival’s theme of Wool & Water that includes landscape, mills, waterways, architecture, machinery, and social history.
Artwork Bailey Curtis ©