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Work that confounds traditional notions of craft is the focus for a new touring exhibition from the Crafts Council, the national development agency for applied arts.

Showing at the Hub in Sleaford, 26 July – 31 August to launch a UK tour, ‘Deviants’ presents sixteen curious pieces from the Crafts Council’s Collection that deviate wildly from what we think of as traditional craft. Pieces are by ten of the UK’s leading craft makers, including Jill Crowley, Carol McNicoll, Richard Slee and Hans Stofer. All are highly skilled in the age-old techniques of their particular craft, yet skills in the hands of these maverick makers become utilised in very different and unusual ways. We are presented with playful, mischievous and bizarre aberrations of familiar objects; teapots with legs, an unfurling jug, a pot with ears or a glove with twenty-five fingers. The ordinary becomes the extraordinary and the functional becomes the dysfunctional. Accompanying the exhibition is an alternative gallery guide written by Dundee-based writer and artist The Lonely Piper. Through his own musings and imaginative stories about each piece, The Lonely Piper captures the unconventional essence of these deviant objects. For him, Henry Pim’s A Pot with Ears “spies on its owner by covertly eavesdropping on conversation”, Hans...

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