While whittling on the shaving horse Nick will discuss the nature of the human and the impelling need we have to make. Nick will seek to set this in a historical context so as to understand how we have arrived in a place of profound separation from the daily relationship between our hands and making things. In a time when the farming community and many others are asking about their relationship to the land and the natural environment, it is poignant to reconsider how we balance the relationship between our hand and our autonomy and an increasingly technological world. Nick will also read an extract or two from his book, Material: The Art of Handcrafting Beautiful Objects in a Digital Age.

Unfortunately no audio recording is available for this session.