Sally is currently working with 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Lincolnshire to develop a touring exhibition for children under six, and their adults. The work includes consultation with families and early years professionals; working with one or more artists to develop new work for this audience; liasing with one or more toy manurfacturers to benefit from their specialist knowledge of materials and processes; and identifying / applying for funding to bring the project to fruition.
If your organisation has an interest in contemporary craft, or working
with young people and subcultures and you would like to join the UK DIY
project, please get in touch: sally@fortresources.co.uk
Sally Fort was invited to be a guest selector
for the exhibition Making Craft Work exhibition at the Platform Gallery in
Clitheroe, Lancashire.
The exhibition explored two different approaches to how students
can engage in further learning after completing a creative degree. 15
students were selected, from the Graduate Diploma in Creative
Business Development course at Manchester Metropolitan University and
the MA Ceramics and Surface Pattern degree course at University of
Central Lancashire. To be eligible for selection student submitted
proposals explaining which work they would like to have included and
details of why they feel it would be suitable for the aim of the
exhibition.
Make Me Shine showcases the work of Michelle Brand and is part of Make Me 06, a series of selling exhibitions which promote the work of designers from Greater Manchester and the North West. To coincide with the dark winter nights and switching on of the Christmas lights, Make Me Shine takes place at Urbis in the Glass Box Gallery Space on Level One. Michelle's delicate display of lights and sculputres discreetly and unexpectedly promote recycling and reusing. Sally Fort project managed Make Me Shine for Design Initiative.
Michelle Brand, Make Me Shine. Courtesy of Urbis 2006
Sally Fort is one of Manchester Craft & Design Centre's creative committee. The committee is responsible for the overarching vision of the centre's changing exhibitions of high profile contemporary craft and design.
THE CREATURE SHOW
Sally Fort curated The Creature Show for Manchester Craft & Design Centre. The show includes work by eight makers whose hand-made designs are changing the face of soft toys and contemporary crafts. Sketch books and design plans sit alongside the creatures, explaining more about how these textile works were created.
Claire Montgomerie: Munki & Bunny
The show involves work by some of the
Donna Wilson: Sleepy Pom
It also supports emerging talent, such as the newly graduating Sam Leonard and her lightly stuffed and delicately adorned Skini-Bears, with their printed fabric tummies and smiley button eyes. These bears have been designed to be plump but flat teddies, somewhere between 2 and 3 dimensional, so that they can be posted in jiffy bags to friends and family as gifts. Skini-bears were the final show piece of Sam's 4 year Bachelor of design course at
Tait & Style, High Horse 2004
Free resource sheets for families have been created, providing patterns, templates and ideas enabling visitors to make their own creatures at home, encouraging new audiences to be part of the buzz of contemporary craft and design.
Download The Creature Show poster, with make your own Sock Monkey instructions here... Poster front Poster back
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Exhibition images from 0161
Sally worked with Urbis on the development of this exhibition celebrating the diverse populations, traditions, recent history and cultures which make up
LITTLE BLACK DRESS
Sally worked with the exhibition team of Urbis in
MID-PENNINE ARTS
Co-ordinating the Crafts Showcase space of the Mid-Pennine Arts Gallery,