Now Open!

at New Brewery Arts Gallery, Cirencester UK

Shoes Have Names is a colaboration between Jo Cope x Shelter Charity.

Following its success at London Craft Week 2020, the Shoes Have Names exhibition has just opened with its first tour partners New Brewery Arts Gallery in Cirencester.

The exhibition showcases the work of 10 designers who were paired with 10 previously homeless individuals to use craft to tell their stories. Each shoe celebrates their positive steps forward since being helped by Shelter.

The show has took on a whole new visual curation concept on the tour, with all of the shoes being displayed on wire gabions stuffed with duvets and bedding which will be donated to homeless refuge charities when the show ends.

The link to bedding as an art prop comes from an innitiative ran by the gallery and the local council durring the covid lockdown, where they housed homeless individuals in their on-site hostel accommodation.

The exhibition is open until April 2nd 2022