- Venue
- God's House Tower
- Starts
- Friday, November 11, 2022
- Ends
- Sunday, December 4, 2022
- Address
- Town Quay Road, Southampton SO14 2NY
- Location
- South West England
- Organiser
- 'a space' arts
From Friday 11th November until Sunday 4th December, God’s House Tower will become a hub for creativity and community as we celebrate the lasting legacy of sarah filmer’s popular project. Across four weekends, visitors will have the opportunity to connect, collaborate and create their own interpretations of the city’s history and identity through collaborative sessions, knitting activities and events.
In the Main Gallery, visitors can immerse themselves in a mesmerising knitted installation which manifests the domestic and the everyday. Drawing on Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’ and Charlotte Perkins Gliman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, the exhibition brings together a collection of co-created knitted objects and keepsakes to form a fully knitted room. From books to furniture and ceramics, many of the objects featured in the exhibition hold personal histories and are a vessel of the participants stories.
In the Project Space, visitors are invited to enjoy a series of photoreels and short films that document and share the many memories created through the project over the years, with participants sharing their own stories and highlights.
As part of the exhibition programme, the ‘knit the walls’ group will be taking custom orders for items created from the works produced in the knitting sessions with proceeds going towards Southampton charities Yellow Door and the Society of St James. (Orders can be placed at the exhibition launch event on Friday 11th November. Find out more about the event here)
knit the walls is free to visit and on display at GHT from Friday 11th November – Sunday 4th December 2022.
About knit the walls
Having first launched in 2016, ’knit the walls’ is a public art co-creation project involving many of Southampton’s residents and visitors in the co-production of a knitted, woollen version of the city’s medieval walls. Led by artist sarah filmer, the project invites participants and audiences to reconnect with stories, memories and alternative histories that are lost over time and unrecorded in books and archives, through creative practice.
