Event | Reading Room: I Took a Hammer in My Hand at the Tea Houses

Event Details

Event continues from 14/03/2026 to 21/03/2026. 

The Tea Houses presents ‘Reading Room: I Took a Hammer in My Hand’, a week-long public reading room curated by Rachel Botha and artist Jan McCullough as part of the artist’s current exhibition at the Butler Gallery. Featuring books from the artist’s collection – including the 1973 ‘Women’s Build-It and Fix-It Handbook’ which the exhibition is named after – alongside maquettes, manuals, zines, films and local publications about woodworking, DIY culture, labour, class, gender and domesticity. Research materials can be perused on a newly commissioned communal table, inspired the furniture factory and workshop Callaghan & Connolly.