Create/Elevate is the third Harewood Biennial showcasing the work of sixteen international artists, designers and craft collectives, including four new commissions. The exhibition, set across Harewood House and Gardens, explores the power of craft to inspire and bring people together to imagine new worlds.

Through three interwoven themes, the biennial addresses how artists, designers and makers work with craft as a continuum, as collaboration and cross-generational knowledge sharing that is generous, and the foundation of most things we know, use and value. New Narratives highlights works that interrogate Harewood's collections and history. Local and global ecologies are foregrounded in The Use of Land, and the convivial effects of sharing food and knowledge are explored in Nourish.

Craft is rooted in the art and heritage of Harewood House and the selection of narrative-rich contemporary objects will open histories and inform and inspire new stories within the house and gardens. The works, embedded throughout the house and landscape, also encourage new ways to engage with the environment of a historic house; actively, playfully and multi-sensorially. 

Create/Elevate foregrounds how artists and designers working with craft self-organise to affect societal change and promote social equity. 

Exhibiting artists and makers include: Arabeschi di Latte, BEIT Collective, Botanique Studios, Britto Arts Trust, Rebecca Chesney, Emefa Cole, Common Threads, Jakup Ferri, Rosa Harradine, Jan Hendzel, Mani Kambo, Hew Locke, Modular by Mensah, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Lucia Pizzani and Xanthe Somers.

The exhibition is curated by Ligaya Salazar and Darren Pih

Create/Elevate is generously supported by Arts Council England, British Council, and the Henry Moore Foundation