These Hands Make
Parkside Gallery
5 Cardigan Street Birmingham B4 7BD United Kingdom
Free to enter
Mon-Fri 8am-8pm
Closed weekends

Opening night: Thursday 11 December, 6-8pm, no booking required
Exhibition run: 4-19 December 2025, then 5-9 January 2026.
These Hands Make celebrates the embodied knowledge that technicians bring to their work—skills honed through years of physical practice, sensory attention, and deep material engagement. As technicians, we are privileged to work with our hands: shaping, building, repairing, guiding.
Through these tactile interactions, we express our understanding of the world and pass that understanding on. This is knowledge that lives not only in the mind, but in the muscles, nerves, and instincts—in the calluses and the gestures. We teach with our bodies as much as our words. In a time when digital abstraction is often mistaken for totality, this exhibition reaffirms the irreplaceable intelligence of hands-on making.