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Celia Pym, mended paper bag, 2024 Photos: Charles Emerson and Michele Panzeri

Mega Mending Workshop with Celia Pym!

Mending Paper Bags

17.1 2026

Malmö

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We make room in the Turbine Hall for a joyful Mega Mending Workshop! The London-based artist Celia Pym, who has been exploring repairs and damage in textiles since 2007, will lead us in a workshop. In her artistic practice, Pym works with mending, patching, and repairing worn garments. She believes that every hole and every repair tells a story.

Date: Saturday 17 January

Time: between 13.00 and 16.00

Location: The Turbine Hall

Language: English

Ticket: Cost for the workshop 250 SEK. Admission fee included in the price. Pre-registration required.

Prerequisites: The workshop is intended for adults. Some prior experience of sewing is desirable but not necessary.

Please bring: Feel free to bring paper bags from home. Perhaps one that previously held fruit, vegetables, bread, baked goods,or something else – any paper bag that has contained something.

You are also welcome to bring a basic sewing kit – sewing needles and, if you like, your favorite yarn. For this workshop, Celia recommends yarn ranging from lace-weight to very thick yarn.

Questions? Please contact Curator of Learning Susanne Lindblad by mail.

We are delighted and proud to welcome Celia Pym, artist and Associate Lecturer in Textiles at the Royal College of Art (UK).

Her tools are scissors, yarn, and a sharp needle, and her philosophy of mending is about exploring the traces of wear and how repair can draw attention to the places where garments and textiles are worn down and become thin. “Darning consists of small acts of care,” she says, “and of giving something careful attention.”

London-based artist Celia Pym has been mending clothes since 2007. Working with garments that belong to individuals as well as items in museum archives, she has broad experience with stories of damage, from moth holes to accidents with fire. Her most recent major project was to teach a whole primary school – over 500 children – aged 4–11 years old how to darn a sock. Exploring resilience and joy in repair and mending.

Celia Pym will guide us through a hands-on workshop and presentation, where together we explore damage and repair on paper bags commonly used for vegetables and other goods. You will have the opportunity to experiment with colours and yarns – various thicknesses (from lace-weight to very thick) and fiber qualities will be available.

The goal of the day is to have fun while engaging in a practical, creative activity and working with our hands. Pym also aims to broaden knowledge and understanding of contemporary ideas and practices around mending, visible repair, and the possibilities of repair as resistance to throwaway culture.

Together, we take the time to slow down, sew, and be present in a calm environment created by a larger group working simultaneously in the same space, with focus and craftsmanship.

Book a place in our mega-workshop—give an experience as a gift to someone you care about, or secure a spot for yourself!

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Celia Pym at work, 2025 Photo: Suki Dhanda

About Celia Pym

In 2017, Pym was shortlisted for the Woman’s Hour Craft Prize and the inaugural Loewe Craft Prize. Pym is an Associate Lecturer in Textiles at the Royal College of Art and is the author of two books; ‘On Mending: stories of damage and repair’ and ‘SOCKS imaginative mending’ both published by Quickthorn. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Crafts Council, UK; Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and National Museum, Norway.

Selected exhibitions include: Perfection: a question of repair co-curated Celia Pym and Kathryn Gremley, Penland Gallery, North Carolina, (2025); Tradition und Moderne, Galeri Handwerk, Munich, Germany (2025); Deep Color, Halsey McKay, New York, USA (2025); Tipping Point, Frauenmuseum, Hittisau, Austria (2025); SOCKS: the art of care and repair, NOW gallery, London (solo) (2024); Bags, Hweg, Cornwall (solo) (2024); Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea (2023); ‘Connect. Reveal. Conceal’. Make Hauser & Wirth, London, UK (2023) ‘Threads: Breathing stories into materials,’ Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2023); ‘Say Less’, Herald St, London, UK (2022); and ‘Keep Being Amazing’, Firstsite, Colchester, Essex, UK (2022).