Stella Harding is exhibiting her unique contemporary basketry and jewellery at The Claremont. Here's how she describes her work:

'In my current practice I use basketry techniques to weave together multiple story lines.

'One is my fascination with the Turk’s head bangle. A paradox: it looks like a multi-stranded plait but is constructed from a single element that is both warp and weft, alternately active and passive, the weave unending – until the thread runs out.

'A second paradox is my attraction to the mathematical structures underlying and revealed by the plaiting techniques that I enjoy despite being a life long maths phobic. Opposites attract. The hand can grasp what the mind lets slip.

'A third strand is the duality of culture and nature and the ways in which they weave together in unexpected ways – each one leaving its mark upon the fabric of the other.

'There are other strands and many loose ends. My work is a process of drawing them together.'