ART

Second Hand
An exhibition of four artists working with inherited and discarded materials.

Celia Pym, Tilly Shiner, Jane Stewart, and Shane Waltener.

Second Hand brings together four artists who work with materials that have lived other lives. Working with garments, textiles, and found objects, each artist uses what is worn, handled, discarded, and redistributed.

Using sculpture, textile, and collage, the artists in our Second Hand exhibition work with old materials to create new artworks, experimenting with techniques passed down through generations. Clothes are mended, reworked, and reassembled; objects are recreated rather than discarded.

The term ‘second-hand’, in use since the 17th century, once described the inheritance of another person’s clothing, making us feel a closeness to others and to the past. Today, second-hand economies are all around us in charity shops, repair stores,salvage yards and antique dealers, which are often housed in former banks, post offices, and past places of industry.

Second Hand invites you to reconsider the value of what is already in circulation, and to think about how material and meanings can be reworked and carried forward.

Opening Wednesday 1^st April, 6pm–8pm.
The exhibition runs from Thursday 2^nd April until Saturday 30^th May 2026.

The Nose, 28 Newgate Street, Walton on the Naze, CO14 8AL, formerly Grandma’s Pantry and Ocean Indian restaurant and a wool shop!