Museum Late: The Art of Reinvention

Programme - House of Frisson Workshop: Join artist Luciano Rocha of House of Frisson for a hands-on collage workshop celebrating artistic storytelling, sustainability, and creative reuse. In this workshop, participants can turn discarded ceramics into bold, meaningful artwork that speaks to identity, transformation, and reinvention. Together, explore collage as a medium for transformation, cutting and layering meaningful imagery onto discarded ceramic plates, embracing the beauty of repurposing materials and turning fragments into powerful expressions of creativity. You'll incorporate symbolism, creating meaningful and thoughtful compositions on plate surfaces, transforming what used to be a discarded plate into an artwork that can be proudly hung on the wall. After the session, Luciano will take the creations and apply a protective sealer to the designs, ensuring they are preserved against damage. Participants will be able to collect their finished artworks at an agreed time. - Textiles Through Time Tour: This new guided tour with Echo Godfrey tells the history of textiles and how they have influenced the ways we have lived from the 1600s to the present day and beyond. - Curator-led Exhibition Design Tour: Join Marina from Museum of the Home’s curatorial team as she delves into the exhibition design process behind our seven newest Rooms Through Time, featuring stories of local communities between 1878 and 2049. - Local design pop-up market Join us for a lively fair featuring the best of local design. Stallholders will be showcasing curated collections throughout the evening, including Fran Gibson, Ælfred, Amateur Weather Observers, YOD&CO, The Little Oasis and HOST/Home of Sustainable Things. - Knitting Demonstrations with Amateur Weather Observers: Amateur Weather Observers will be hosting two knitting demonstrations on the night including an introduction to knitting and Knitting pictures: a demonstration of the intarsia techniques used in their signature landscape vests. The Suburban Landscape Vest is from the 2022 collection In the Middle of Nowhere, is an ode to the non-places of British suburbia. The collection was photographed on family and friends in an old pit village on the outskirts of Durham City, where Laura grew up. - Our Gilded Veins Concert Stream from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra: A streamed concert of Jay Capperauld's composition inspired by kintsugi and performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken objects, not only to repair them, but to highlight their previous damage in a special and positive light. If a plate is broken, instead of throwing it away, it is glued together with gilded lacquer to emphasise and celebrate the break as part of the object’s history. As a human concept, Our Gilded Veins is an honest reflection on damage, failure and scars, to embrace the necessity of life’s negatives while attempting to forge a positive existential outcome.