Flower Light

The Serge Hill Project 

April 2026

“…Gardens can provide a meeting place for our innermost dream-infused selves and the real world…”
— Sue Stuart Smith

Harmonising with this idea, Flower Light is a visual response to the Plant Library - exploring gardens as spaces where inspiration and experience intertwine.

Rooted in the ethos of the Serge Hill Project, the exhibition celebrates the powerful connections between people, plants, and creativity. Alongside the works brushed by Artist in Residence, Anne McKenzie, you’ll see banners created during community workshops—expressions of shared making, collective care, and creative exchange.

Beneath the Surface: Material and Meaning
Design Nation and The Hub Sleaford

6 December 2025 - 15 March 2026

Every material holds a memory. Every object tells a story.

To celebrate 25 years of supporting British craft and design, Design-Nation presents Beneath the Surface: Material and Meaning; a powerful and poetic exhibition about how materials hold stories, memories, and emotion.

Beneath the Surface brings together selected works by leading artists and makers from across the UK, showcasing a cross-section of contemporary craft in clay, glass, metal, textile, wood, and more. Each artist explores personal and shared narratives of identity, memory, migration, transformation, and resilience. The artworks encourage us to slow down and look closer, revealing vulnerability beneath their surface and uncovering deeper stories through material, technique, and process. Rooted in lived experience and shaped by sustainable practice, these objects offer quiet yet profound reflections on the unseen forces that shape our lives.

The exhibition is an invitation to pause, reflect and connect – not just with the objects, but with the emotions, histories, and hands behind them.