The Pier Arts Centre
Stromness
KW16 3AA
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Dr Rosalind Rawnsley will be discussing her great-grandfather Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley and the Keswick School of Industrial Arts’ ‘Work With Joy’ in the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness on Friday 29th September 2023 at 7.30pm.
Rosalind Rawnsley is co-author with Dr. Michael Allen of Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley 1851-1920 - An Extraordinary Life.
In Work With Joy, Rosalind, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley's great-grand-daughter and co-author of a comprehensive new biography of Canon Rawnsley, discusses the background to the work of the Keswick School of Industrial Arts. This organisation, founded in 1884 by Rawnsley and his wife, to provide skills training in metal and wood-work to laid-off agricultural workers in the winter months, was organised in accordance with the principles of John Ruskin, who taught that work should be a source of pride and enjoyment for the worker, and not simply a means of earning a living.
The KSIA from small beginnings, grew into a flourishing business which outlived its founders, and remained in activity for just under a hundred years. Its products, in the tradition of the Arts & Crafts movement, are now greatly sought after, and fetch high prices.
