Nurturing Revolutions

Through sculptural weaving and basketry, these works explore nurture as both process and principle, balancing tradition with personal innovation. Each piece reflects patient making, material enquiry, and the quiet strength that emerges when fibres, ideas, and inner resolve are woven together.

Student exhibition: Form to Freedom with Harriet Goodall

"'Nurturing Revolutions', is an exhibition celebrating the transformative potential of basketry and sculptural weaving in a time when the world demands more introspection. This collection marks the culmination of this year’s journey through my online course Form To Freedom, where students have explored the intersection of tradition and innovation, creating works that beautifully embody the quiet power of change.

Basketry, with its humble roots in ancient handcraft technique and its connection to nature, brings practitioners closer to their environments and closer to themselves.

Each piece in this exhibition reflects the nurturing of ideas, materials, and forms into new structures, challenging the conventional boundaries of what basketry can be. Through foraging materials, coiling, random weaving, twining and looping the students have turned fibres into a language of personal expression.

As many of you know, this year has been especially meaningful for me with an unexpected but serious breast cancer diagnosis. In light of my current health journey, I chose the theme of nurture as creativity can be a nurturing form of healing and transformation. With each stitch, loop, cycle or revolution of our weaving, we build our inner resolve and feed our spirits.

In Nurturing Revolutions, we celebrate the act of nurturing change, whether in our art or in ourselves. Through these very sculptural works, we are reminded that revolution doesn’t always come with a loud cry; sometimes, it comes from the patient, persistent act of weaving together something new.

Thank you to every single student who submitted and for joining us to celebrate these quiet revolutions."

– Harriet Goodall

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