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The international authority on contemporary craft. Published by the Crafts Council
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25/09/2025

🎉 Announcing the launch of Crafts Council Membership: a refreshed and inclusive offering, rooted in feedback from the craft community.

The new scheme draws together the best of what Crafts Council has to offer: quality editorial, engaging events & talks, the Directory platform, practical resources and ticket discounts; alongside new benefits such as the quarterly 'Makers Manual' and exclusive 'What Craft Means To Me' podcast.

Crafts Council Membership is open to all; whether you’re a maker, learner, collector or supporter, join the new offering to get closer to the sector and discover more.

Visit https://bit.ly/4pLbasK to learn more about our new membership and sign up to .

📸: Rory Lindsay at Craft After Dark.

11/09/2025

There's just a week to go until the first edition of Craft After Dark – have you got your ticket yet?

Meet fellow crafters, take part in making sessions and get to know Crafts Council's new membership offering. We'll be hosting a series of activities throughout the evening, including a paper collage workshop led by multi-disciplinary maker Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa (more on that next week!)

📅 Thursday 18 September
⏰ 6 - 9PM
📍 Crafts Council Gallery, London
🎨 Tickets are free for Directory Makers and members, via https://bit.ly/4mPhE7X
🎟️ Otherwise, visit https://bit.ly/4lV8cOZ to get yours for £10 + fees.

04/09/2025

🚨 Announcing a new date for your diary...

Presenting the first edition of Craft After Dark, hosted in our Gallery on Pentonville Road in north London. Taking place on 18 September from 6-9PM, this event launches a recurring series featuring networking and making sessions. We'll also be celebrating the launch of the brand-new Crafts Council membership programme.

Attendees can drop-in to activities throughout the evening, including a paper-collage workshop by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa, along with opportunities to connect with fellow members and meet the Crafts Council team.

📅 Thursday 18 September
⏰ 6-9PM
📍 Crafts Council Gallery, 44a Pentonville Road, N1 9BY
🎟️ Crafts Members go free via https://bit.ly/4mPhE7X
(non-members: £10 + fees)

We look forward to seeing you there!

08/08/2025

🎉 We've got free tickets available for Gold & Silver tier members for the upcoming Birkenstock: Your Blank Canvas workshop on 28 August.

During this hands-on leather-crafting workshop, you'll personalise your shoes or sandals using vibrant, die-cut leather shapes. Learn the rivet attachment technique to stylishly customise your footwear with a mix of colours, textures, and patterns. No experience needed – just bring your imagination and walk away with a one-of-a-kind wearable artwork.

About John Booth:
Born in Scotland in 1984 and raised in Cumbria, Booth moved to London in 2004, graduating with a BA in fashion print design at Central Saint Martins. He has since taught as a lecturer both at Central Saint Martins as well as at the University of Westminster. Booth has worked for several fashion brands including Zandra Rhodes, John Galliano, Ashish, Christopher Shannon and most recently, Globetrotter, Fendi and Paul Smith.

📅 Thursday 28 August
⏰ 18:00 - 20:30
📍 Birkenstock, Dray Walk, London E1 6QL
🎟️ Tickets are free for Gold & Silver tier members, available via https://bit.ly/41qJZbS

02/08/2025

Signs of Greatness

From trade union marches to working with Jeremy Deller on the National Gallery’s double centenary, Ed Hall is the country’s foremost banner maker. You might have seen his pieces at Venice Biennale or the Southbank Centre, but you are equally likely to have seen an original Ed Hall held up in the background as a media-friendly union leader is interviewed by journalists.

Read our full profile of Hall via https://bit.ly/4mdFPMo (Crafts subscription required).

📸 Photo credits:
1.) ASLEF Arnos Grove Branch banner.
2.) Ed Hall pictured in front of one of his banners. Photo: Helen Sloan
3.) Banners designed by Ed Hall. Photo: Helen Sloan

08/07/2025

We were deeply saddened to hear the news of Sir Brian Clarke's death last week.

Known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, he spent five decades championing the medium, both by creating luminescent artworks that push the boundaries of stained glass, and by collecting seminal pieces by other artists. Clarke’s own connection to the zeitgeist helped him turn a medium oft-associated with ancient churches into an art form of astonishing modernity.

Today, we're delving back into a wonderful Crafts Magazine profile of Brian by Malaika Byng (), visiting his museum-like London home in 2021. The full piece is available to read here: https://bit.ly/3TpY1q3

📸 Photo credit: Mary McCartney

27/06/2025

The birth of The Herds

Hundreds of life-sized puppets are making an epic journey from the Equator to the Arctic. But how did The Herds come together? We talked to the teams who've been planning and building these enormous creatures for years to discover the story behind the puppets.

This article is now available for Crafts Members to read on our website via https://bit.ly/40qohnV

With thanks to:
Wimbledon College of Arts
UAL: University of the Arts London
The Herds
The Walk
Craig Leo
Amir Nizar Zoabi

📸: 1.) The Herds in Dakar, Senegal. Photo: Jean-Baptise Joire
2.) The Herds in Madrid, Spain. Credit Lukasz Michalak
3.) Students at UAL's Wimbledon College of Arts. Photo: Courtesy of the University of the Arts London
4.) The Herds in Marrakesh, Morocco. Photo: Oussama Oulhiq

26/06/2025

We're counting down to Friday's event in partnership with The Hepworth Wakefield, chaired by Isabella Smith and featuring 'New Ceramic' artists Jacqueline Poncelet and Glenys Barton alongside the V&A's Alun Graves.

Discounted tickets for Crafts members also include free entry to the Elizabeth Fritsch retrospective exhibition.

If you can't make it there on the night, live-stream the event into your home for just £5.

'New Ceramics': Radical Legacies since the 1970s
📅 Friday 27 June
⏰ 17:00 - 18:00
📍 The Hepworth Wakefield / online
🎟️ Available via: https://bit.ly/4kW379x

📸 Photo credit: Spout pot, Elizabeth Fritsch, 1975, Crafts Council Collection: P20. Photo: Todd-White Art Photography

24/06/2025

Jacqueline Poncelet: 'Knowing why you’re alive is a wonderful thing'

Ahead of this Friday's 'New Ceramics' panel discussion in partnership with The Hepworth Wakefield, we leafed through our archives to find this interview with Jacqueline Poncelet, one of the three panellists, by Natasha Levy, former Associate Editor of Crafts. Read the full article for free on our website for the next seven days via https://bit.ly/4kQ7Lpq.

Friday's talk coincides with The Hepworth Wakefield’s Elizabeth Fritsch retrospective, and will focus on Fritsch’s cohort of 'New Ceramic' graduates from the Royal College of Art in the 1970s. In-person tickets are available, and there's the opportunity to book to watch the live stream too.

Head over to https://bit.ly/4kW379x to find out more and book your tickets (with exclusive ticket rates available for Crafts members).

📅 Friday 27 June
⏰ 17:00 - 18:00
📍 The Hepworth Wakefield / online

📸 Photo credit: 1.) Jacqueline Poncelet at the Collection Store launch, Crafts Council gallery, September 2024. Photo: Hayley Madden.
2.) Large Bowl with Curved Horn, Jacqueline Poncelet, 1983. Crafts Council Collection. Photo: Stokes Photo Ltd.

16/04/2025

Book Club | Norwegian Crafts, discussing The Vessel: Craft in public spaces

Join us for this online conversation hosted by Yasmin Jones-Henry with Vessel Magazine editors Ida Højgaard Thjøme and Marianne Zamecznik as they discuss The Vessel’s eight issue, Craft in Public Spaces.

This edition explores how craft enters public spaces, serving as a platform for care, activism, and community through materiality. Despite its longstanding yet often overlooked role in public art, the documentation of craft in these spaces remains incomplete - a theme explored in this issue.

Airing: 7-8pm Tuesday 29 April online, via Zoom.
Free for members, £9.15 for non-members.

Head to the ‘What's On’ link in bio to book.

Photos: Art work ‘Kilden' by Kari Christensen, installation at Politihuset, the police station and district HQ in central Oslo, completed in 1982. Photo courtesy by KORO/Cathrine Wang. “Pyramiderom” images: Outi Pieski’s upcoming art work AAhkA for the 'A-block' in the new Norwegian Government Quarter. Illustration by Statsbygg/Team Urbis, courtesy of KORO Public Art Norway.

15/04/2025

Visteria Foundation’s (.foundation) inaugural show at Milan Design Week, ‘Romantic Brutalism. A Journey into Polish Craft and Design’, set out to introduce the international design community to Polish craft and collectible design.

Marking 100 years on from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, ‘Romantic Brutalism’ explores the ongoing historical influence of brutalism, romanticism, decadence, folk, and art deco in contemporary Polish design culture.

Image credit: Monika Patuszyńska ()
Photo: Tomo Yarmush. Courtesy of Objekt Gallery. Photo 2: Ludovic Balay

14/04/2025

Step inside the colourful studio of self-named ‘scultpographer’ Daniele Papuli () some weeks ago as he prepared for his Dilmos Gallery () presentation of his paper furniture and objects created for Milan Design Week 2025, which closed yesterday for another year.�

Papuli, known for his sculptural collaborations with Missoni and Hermes, has been dedicated to the exploration of paper as a means of expression since a workshop in 1993 in Berlin introduced him to manufacturing sheet paper.�

Photo: Margherita Bon

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