Private View of Socks: The Art of Care and Repair at NOW Gallery
Join us to celebrate the launch of NOW Gallery's 2024 Fashion Commission Socks: The Art of Care and Repair by leading textile artist Celia Pym. Featuring live performances by singer songwriter Rozi Plain and DJ selections from Léna C X Loose FM.
Focusing on the concept of sustainability in fashion and our lives more broadly, Socks: The Art Of Care And Repair will celebrate the everyday act of mending through darning. Central to the exhibition will be a vibrant, colourful installation of 488 socks, each stitched and darned by the Surrey Square Primary School community in Southwark using industry ‘warehouse’ waste socks. Children, staff and families of the school, learnt and practised their darning and stitching skills on socks, during a series of 26 workshops facilitated by Pym in early 2024.
Learn the art of darning in sock mending workshops led by experts, kicking off a live programme of events taking place throughout the exhibition run at NOW Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula. Don't forget to bring your socks with you!
