Crafts for Christmas 2023 features a number of artists and craftspeople working in different media offering a wide range of unusual cards […]
“From ship + shapen, later shortened to shape. The word is of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep […]
The world of craft is full of fun, something that is particularly well represented at The Stradling Collection.
In this spirit, we are […]
Curated by Tanya Martin
“…chairs are anthropomorphic. They look like us with feet, legs, seat, […]
My Family and Other Objects is a project by our Learning Programme inspired by A Lifelong Passion for Design: Ken Stradling at 100, which tells the story of […]
The collective noun for a gathering of tigers is a strike or ambush of tigers.
2022 to […]
While we are temporarily closed, we bring you a selection from the dazzling spoon collection of Matt Benton, a Bristol-based artist and collector.
Matt collects spoons from all over the […]
This exhibition was the first time we told the full story of Ken Stradling’s extraordinary life through […]
Celebrating Bristol’s long history of making beautiful glass we are shining a spotlight on this exciting world of ‘fire and ice’. The Ken Stradling Collection at 48 Park Row, Bristol are using […]
Geoffrey Whiting’s teapots are the forms for which he remains best known, having achieved a design that is at once highly functional, but also good to look at as a piece of working […]
