The Gane Trust is a small charitable trust, operating mainly in the West of England. It supports and celebrates art, design, craftsmanship and social welfare.

We do this through many activities including exhibitions, events and sponsorship. A good example of our work is The Gane Trust Travel Scholarship Award.

A brief three year period in the mid thirties put Bristol on the Modernist map. In association with the Gane Trust, we present a little known partnership, and its extraordinary architectural and artistic implications.

This exhibition presents Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer, one of the pioneers of modern design, and Crofton Gane, Bristol furniture manufacturer, and their intriguing collaboration.

Alison Shanks was a winner of the Gane Trust 2010 Travel Scholarship Awards. Al ison took full advantage of her grant to visit St. Petersburg and Moscow, and managed to gain entry to Russia's largest puppet museum and theatre, the Obraztsov. She made some good contacts and is planning to make a film with a Russian filmmaker in Siberia about migration. Her rich experience has greatly influenced her work.

Ken Stradling has had a lifelong interest in design and crafts. He was Managing Director of the Bristol Guild for fifty years and is now its Chairman. He was deputy director of the Cider Press Centre in Dartington for nine years and a trustee of the Vivat Trust and the SS Great Britain. He became Chairman of the Gane Trust in 1988. He has recently set up a charitable trust to show his large collection of modern ceramics, glass, furniture and pictures.