A CRAFTS conference is due to leave a lasting impression on Tyneside this month.

A two-day conference examining new approaches to curating the crafts, due to the increasing diversity of locations for craft exhibitions and virtual format presentations, is to be held at Northumbria University.

As part of the conference, three artists have been commissioned to create installations at the Gibside National Trust estate, near Rowlands Gill.

Suzanne Langston-Jones is designing 13 pairs of gloves that will be placed in the chapel and will be embroidered in texts tracing the female ancestral line of the Bowes-Lyon family.

Ceramist Clare Twomey will create a porcelain and clay piece, near the stable block, of objects related to the stables including horseshoes and farriers and Deirdre Nelson is creating textile panels depicting the Bach flower medicinal plants, reflecting Mary Eleanor Bowes botanical interests and emotional states which will be hung in the Orangery.

The installations at Gibside will open on September 26 and be linked to the Tell Tale: Narratives and Contemporary Crafts exhibition running at Shipley Art Gallery from September 19. Both exhibitions are open to the public and run until Sunday, November 2.