- God's House Tower Town Quay Road SO14 2NY
- 2026-02-06 18:00 to 2026-03-08 16:00
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Exhibition: Embodied Knowledge: Traces of Our Making
2026-02-06 18:00 to 2026-03-08 16:00
6th February 2026
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Exhibition: Embodied Knowledge: Traces of Our Making
2026-02-06 18:00 to 2026-03-08 16:00
6th February 2026
Friday 6th February – Sunday 8th March 2026
God’s House Tower is open Thursday to Sunday. Entry is free to Gallery Exhibitions.
Launch Event: Friday 6th February 2026, 6pm – 9pm
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.
About 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.
Launch Event
Join us for the launch event on Friday 6th February 2026 at 6pm. Meet and hear from the artists involved, learn about the 2026 GHT Programme, explore the new Artist Shop, and enjoy our updated wine and café bar menu. The opening night is free entry, book your ticket here.
Access and Quiet Spaces
The ground-floor bar and café at GHT have step-free access from Town Quay Road. For information on parking and travel, please visit our Plan your Visit page.
The artwork for this exhibition is located in the Main Gallery and the Barker-Mill Project Space, both of which are accessible via lift.
Quiet Hours: Every Thursday morning from 10am – 12pm, lights will be dimmed and sound levels lowered.
For the duration of this exhibition, the library will also be available as a quiet space. This space includes dimmed lighting, seating, quiet music, and water. You are welcome to use it at any time if you would like a break.
If you’d like to familiarise yourself with the venue before your visit, you can take a virtual tour of our spaces on our website. You’ll also find a visual story introducing members of the GHT team.
Exhibition Resources
Click here to Plan Your Visit or take a Virtual Tour
Available soon:
- Click here to listen to an Audio Version of Exhibition Text
- Audio walkthrough of the exhibition
