Multimedia Archive

Clay and Straw Making Workshop | Drop-in Taster Session

Clay and straw craft workshop with Zoe Petrie....

Straw Crafts Demonstration

Art Historian, Researcher and Straw Artist Sylvia Martin demonstrates craft ‘POSSIBILITIES’ with straw, including spiral work, straw marquetry and split and spun straw....

‘Strength in Diversity’ Talk on Heritage Grains

What are heritage grains? How can reintroducing genetic diversity into our grain populations produce more climate resilient crops? Talk by John Letts from the Heritage Grain Trust....

Taste the Flavours

An opportunity to taste the flavours of our 1936 Atle Spring Wheat flour, traditionally harvested, winnowed and stone round....

Hand Drumming Workshop | Drop-in Taster Session

Hand drumming workshop with Kadence Music....

Hand Earth Gesture Return

An exhibition demonstrating the connections between the Hand Earth Gesture Return public art programme, local heritage, community and place at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum....

Chapter 3: The Hairy Barge

Processioning the materials to the communities that will use them from Hatton Locks to Coventry Canal Basin, Warwickshire . A sculptural intervention, made from straw, atop heritage working boat Scorpio...

Sculpting Hands

Using digital technologies to support a craft skills exchange between collaborating artists in Coventry, UK and Kolkata, India....

Chapter 2: The Rick

Synonymous with the English landscape until the middle of the last century, stacks and ricks are still used to store and dry straw and grain in many parts of the...

What Are Heritage Grains? Turning Wheat Into Flour

Cultivating our own thatching straw for the Hand Earth Gesture Return public art programme, we teamed up with John Letts and the Heritage Grain Trust to learn how to traditionally...

Cob Workshop

Rachael Champion, Amy & Oliver Thomas-Irvine & Jim Woodall along with the Pangaea team and their young children spent the day learning how to make cob to produce a structure...

Daimler Powerhouse Opening: Film Screening and Live Drumming Performance

Premier of new short film Chapter 1: The Seed and a live drumming performance, exploring life cycle and its connection with the hand, earth and gesture....

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