Exhibition Launch: Embodied Knowledge by Create + Connect

Join us on Friday 6th February as we celebrate the first exhibition opening of 2026!

Create + Connect is an initiative dedicated to supporting women through creativity, collaboration, and community. Based in Hampshire, the programme delivers monthly workshops, engages local artists and skilled makers as workshop facilitators, and offers a platform for women to exchange skills and build connections.

About the Artists

This exhibition showcases the outcomes from a series of workshops held at God’s House Tower during the last six months, including Madhubani Painting with Moly Gupta, Introduction to Weaving with Alice Hume, and Exploring Clay led by Ren Wooldridge. The programme was documented by Mihaela Ardei.

Together, these works carry the marks of exploration, exchange, and collaboration. They invite viewers to consider creativity as a form of communication-revealing the connections formed between people, materials, and place.

Embodied knowledge refers to the understanding that emerges through physical engagement, practice, and shared creative experience. Traces of Our Making values both the material outcomes of making and the community shaped through the process.

Create + Connect is a project led by Ren Wooldridge, a multidisciplinary artist with a strong commitment to community-engaged practice, while her studio work is grounded in ceramic sculpture. Ren is a recipient of a space’ arts’ experimental bursary scheme, Pitch Your Project.

Pitch Your Project offers a creative, community-focused initiative in the SO postcode £2000 to fund new activity. Projects are selected by the community, for the community, at a live event where applicants pitch their ideas to an audience who then vote for the projects they’d like to see awarded the funding.

As part of ‘a space’ arts’ mission to become an anti-racist organisation, this round of the Pitch Your Project bursary scheme was specifically for global-majority led initiatives. The live event took place in February 2025 and was hosted at God’s House Tower, in partnership with Black History Month South.

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