Place at the Table was developed by Alice Kettle, with Victoria Brown for Pallant House Gallery. The project challenged categorisations of craft, with Kettle as curator and artist. Place at the Table presented craft as social, functional, relational, performative and for its material character.
Craft was presented as an agent and provocation that invites participation, questions cultural values, concepts and aesthetic concerns. The aim of the project was to expose the movement of creative practice across disciplines and navigate the formal gallery space and the perceived place of craft as domestic.
Place at the Table had multiple strands including the staging of an extraordinary meal for curators and artists at Pallant House Gallery, around which craft and its relationship to the contemporary was debated. Following the meal a series of craft interventions were placed throughout the Queen Anne townhouse.
The installation brought together a range of work by artists who, while sometimes considered ‘craft makers’, challenge such categorisation with the ambition, quality, creativity and thinking behind their work. Artists participating in the event and subsequent exhibition included Barnaby Carder, David Clarke, Fabrizio Cocchiarella, Kate Egan, Di Hockin, Guy Holder, Jasleen Kaur, Paul Scott, Matt Smith, Sam Sweet and Anne White.
Artists participating in the event and subsequent exhibition included, Barnaby Carder, David Clarke, Fabrizio Cocchiarella, Kate Egan, Di Hockin, Guy Holder, Jasleen Kaur, Paul Scott, Matt Smith, Sam Sweet and Anne White.
