A special celebration to mark the end of the exhibition, featuring a tour of the show by the lead artist, Ren Wooldridge, followed by an informal Q&A in the GHT Café.

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.

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.