Heritage Hands is a photographic and storytelling exhibition celebrating traditional artisans and endangered craft practices.

Presented at the Thomas Dixon Centre, the exhibition features a series of portraits and stories documenting skilled makers working across trades including whip making, bookbinding, natural dyeing, millinery, antique restoration and more.

Through photography and oral history, Heritage Hands captures the knowledge, processes and cultural histories embedded in hand skills, offering a rare insight into practices that are increasingly at risk of being lost.

The exhibition invites visitors to connect with the people behind these trades and to consider the value of craftsmanship in a contemporary context.

Heritage Hands is both a celebration of making and a call to ensure these skills are recognised, supported and passed on to future generations.