SOAP CARVINGS
One exquisite soap carving from the museum collection captured our hearts and became the seed from which this exhibition grew. We took the tiny soap portrait out to meet people and in response to these creative encounters we developed a ‘workshop in an envelope’. The workshop was posted to people in prison and delivered to people in their homes across Nottingham, to support health, wellbeing and creativity during lockdown. Over 1,000 workshops have been shared. Here are a few of the brilliant carvings that people have shared.