In a new regular feature, we’ve teamed up with the National Justice Museum to put objects from the past into the hands of people of the present.
Andrea Hadley-Johnson, the Artistic Programme Manager at the NJM, said: “Our aim is to share objects in the places where people are, to inspire curiosity and conversation. To amplify the voice and perspective of the people of the city in the exhibitions and activities we coproduce.” For the first edition, we met with Martin Sommerville, an artist and woodworker who runs By Our Hands We Make Our Way in Sneinton, to show him a set of three hand-carved soap figures that had been created by prison inmates in the past…
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