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Emery Walker's House Exhibition Programme

Guided tours at Emery Walker's House conclude in our small exhibition space

March 1 - June 1, 2025 the exhibition on display will be Printing Partnerships : Emery Walker & the Private Press Movement

This exhibition will chart Walker’s importance in the world of typography and printing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from his first private press involvement with the founding and operation of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press (1891–1898), his partnership with Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press (1900–1917), through to his final printing collaboration with Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers.

June 5 - November 29, 2025 the exhibition on display will be  Marking Her Mark: Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement

This exhibition ​displays the work of women art workers to the Arts and Crafts movement, whose contributions have historically been overlooked in favour of the more familiar names of the movement’s heroes. May Morris, Mary Annie Sloane, Phoebe Stabler, Louise Powell, Katharine Adams, and Ethel Sandell worked across a wide range of media, including embroidery, sculpture, ceramics, and painting. All worked not only to reinvigorating craft and design in Britain but also to building for themselves successful professional careers despite barriers of gender. Their work will be displayed alongside archival material from the Women’s Guild of Arts, of which they were all members, which illuminates their advocacy for women’s work in the arts, as well as the bonds of friendship which united them.

 

This exhibition combines rarely seen pieces from the Emery Walker collection, as well as loans from the William Morris Society and a private collection.

Bust of May Morris by Jo Davidson in bed

Photograph by Lucinda Hawksley

THANK YOU!

The Emery Walker Trust thanks its many financial supporters and donors, who have given generously to support the creation of this exhibition space 

Aldama Foundation

Henry Oldfield Trust

John S. Cohen Foundation

Jones Trust

Sackler Trust

Mary Wells

Garfield Weston Foundation

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And others who wished to remain anonymous 

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