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Crafts Alive at Rodmarton Manor
From Wednesday 10 – Sunday 14 September The Gloucestershire Guild presents the fourth Crafts Alive 5-day festival, ‘Flowers and the Maker’. The festival takes its inspiration from the discovery of a recording of a radio interview with Mary Biddulph about a flower festival which was held at Rodmarton Manor to raise funds for the village church.
Guild members and guest exhibitors show their work throughout the house in this unique re-imagining of one of the country’s finest Arts and Crafts houses, celebrating the inspiration of flowers and sustainable crafts.
A site-specific exhibition of work by 17 artists from Victoria Works Studios, a creative hub in the village of Chalford, a few miles from Rodmarton, will be showing in one of the attic bedrooms.
With privileged access the Guild will be showing outstanding contemporary crafts by 47 makers working in calligraphy, ceramics, glass, furniture, jewellery, mosaic, leatherwork, textiles and fashion, especially made for, and inspired by the house and its floral surroundings.
In the gardens, there is work by guest exhibitors, Dan Rawlings, Ellie Drake - Lee, Judith Hobbs, and a site-specific installation in the summerhouse by Corinne Hockley and Davy & Kristy McGuire.
Original work will be for sale. Each day there are demonstrations, workshops, talks and delicious locally made food and drink.
Guild members and guest exhibitors show their work throughout the house in this unique re-imagining of one of the country’s finest Arts and Crafts houses, celebrating the inspiration of flowers and sustainable crafts.
A site-specific exhibition of work by 17 artists from Victoria Works Studios, a creative hub in the village of Chalford, a few miles from Rodmarton, will be showing in one of the attic bedrooms.
With privileged access the Guild will be showing outstanding contemporary crafts by 47 makers working in calligraphy, ceramics, glass, furniture, jewellery, mosaic, leatherwork, textiles and fashion, especially made for, and inspired by the house and its floral surroundings.
In the gardens, there is work by guest exhibitors, Dan Rawlings, Ellie Drake - Lee, Judith Hobbs, and a site-specific installation in the summerhouse by Corinne Hockley and Davy & Kristy McGuire.
Original work will be for sale. Each day there are demonstrations, workshops, talks and delicious locally made food and drink.
Wed 10 Sep to Sunday 14 September
Rodmarton Manor Gloucestershire GL7 6PF
Crafts Alive – Flowers and the MakerRodmarton Manor, nr Cirencester, GL7 6PF
Wednesday 10 – Sunday 14 September 2025
10am – 4pm
Tickets: £15, under 16s free.
Tickets include access to the Manor House, the Gardens, daily demonstrations & interactive drop-in workshops
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