QEST Returns to Craft Festival Bovey Tracey 2023
QEST is excited to return to Craft Festival Bovey Tracey with a focus on promoting our work with young people and inspiring craft careers. The event takes place at Mill … Read more
Katherine Boyle
QEST Award for Excellence 2023 Presented to Eleanor Lakelin
Congratulations to QEST Turners’ Company Scholar and wood turner Eleanor Lakelin, who was presented with this year’s QEST Award for Excellence today. Kindly sponsored by Thomas Fattorini, the medal is … Read more
QEST & Grandey’s Place Makers to Join Forces at Living Crafts
To celebrate the Coronation, QEST Scholars and makers from Grandey’s Place – a centre dedicated to the conservation of Britain’s Heritage Crafts in Hertfordshire – are joining forces to take … Read more
Leather Sculptures by Frances Pinnock Feature in Cut and Fold at MAKE Hauser & Wirth
A new exhibition, Cut and Fold at MAKE Hauser & Wirth Somerset, features a collection of works that explore the interplay between design and form, redefining surface qualities through the … Read more
Training Tales: Sam Laming on Historic Musical Instrument Making at West Dean College
Sam Laming received a QEST William Parker Scholarship to support the final year of his FdA in Historic Craft Practice (Musical Instruments) at West Dean College of Arts & Conservation. It … Read more
QEST Scholars to Feature in Future Icons Selects During London Craft Week
During London Craft Week (11-14 May 2023), Future Icons will be exclusively taking over Oxo Tower Wharf’s iconic Bargehouse with its largest exhibition to date and debut of its new … Read more
Material Beings at Cromwell Place for London Craft Week
Material Beings is an artist-led exhibition pushing the conceptual nature of craft practice through a radical rethinking of materiality. Curated by QEST Scholars Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth of studio … Read more
QEST to Return to Artefact During London Craft Week 2023
Now in its third year, the contemporary craft fair Artefact (9-13 May) brings the joy of the hand-crafted and highly collectible to an international audience of designers, architects, collectors and … Read more
Alastair Barford Creates First Commissioned Portrait of King Charles III
Illustrated London News is proud to reveal its specially commissioned portrait of His Majesty King Charles III that will feature on the front cover of The Illustrated Coronation Edition. The … Read more
V&A Acquires Work by Kayo Saito at Collect
The V&A Museum acquired work by goldsmith Kayo Saito at Collect earlier this month. Kayo exhibited a new series of brooches on the QEST stand, made of 18 carat gold … Read more