This is Not a Shoe at RMIT University
Join "This is Not a Shoe," a hands-on workshop at RMIT University's Brunswick Campus on 31 August 2026 (5–7pm, $50), part of the Circular Campus to Community project with Merri-bek City Council. Led by Alex Sherlock and Pennie Jagiello, participants deconstruct a beloved, worn-out pair of shoes and reassemble the pieces into a commemorative flat-lay artwork, while learning about footwear construction and sustainability. Bring one meaningful pair of shoes; tools and materials provided. Ages 18+ only, due to sharp tools involved.
This is Not a (tiny) Shoe - Footwear Memento Workshop
Deconstruct your child's worn-out shoes and transform them into a beautiful flat-lay artwork & accessory. A reflective workshop at Abbotsford Convent, Naarm/Melbourne, that will build your craft and circular thinking skills.
Exhibition Launch - This is Not a Shoe - Paypal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2026
Launch event for the 'This is Not a Shoe' Reimaging Footwear exhibition and workshop. Part of the 2026 Paypal Melbourne Fashion Festival Independent Programme.
The Path is a Metaphor - Museu do Calçado, Portugal
September 2024 sees the opening of Artist Jo Cope’s new exhibition ‘The Path is a Metaphor’ at Portugal’s prestigious shoe museum in S. João da Madeira.
Exhibit A: Investigating Crime and Footwear - Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
Examining the development of footwear forensics as a means of solving crime as well as the social constructions of criminality from the nineteenth century to today, Exhibit A: Investigating Crime and Footwear at the Bata Shoe Museum considers how clothing and footwear influence cultural ideas informed by assumptions and bias.
Jo Cope: The Wisdom is in Your Feet
In this exhibition at The Hub, Sleaford, contemporary fashion artist Jo Cope asks the audience to think through their feet and consider walking as a metaphor for life’s journey, with feet, paths, and directions as moral and symbolic guides.
Hand Made in America: Contemporary Custom Footwear
Curated by shoemaker and artist Amara Hark-Weber, this exhibition features 11 accomplished shoe and boot makers working across the United States. These makers build upon tradition in the creation of modern bespoke footwear. In conversation with historic shoes from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, the work ranges from sculptural to practical, from traditional to conceptual.
Only Shoes Can Save Us Now
Jo Cope has carved out a niche as an artist focussing on our cultural relationship with shoes. After a decade of international exhibitions the Leicester Gallery at De Montfort University now hosts a homecoming show featuring the largest collection of her work to date.
Talk Trainers @ Northampton Museum & Art Gallery
Fully immerse yourself in trainer culture by meeting and hearing from trainer designers, collectors, manufacturers and customisers at the Northampton Museum & Art Gallery, in collaboration with the University of Northampton.
Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks
Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto explores over fifty futuristic footwear designs from the auto-lacing Nike MAG to the virtual RTFKT x Staple Meta-Pigeon. It considers how cutting-edge technologies, unexpected materials, and new ideas are transforming footwear today…
Shoes Have Names Exhibition
Shoes Have Names is a collaboration with conceptual fashion designer Jo Cope and Shelter. Stories of homelessness have never been told like this before.