Upcoming Events

A celebration of contemporary art and architecture, the 253rd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition features work by icons and up and coming artists - there are over 1,000 pieces selected by coordinator Yinka Shonibare and a panel of artists, under the theme of Reclaiming Magic. Exhibiting artists include QEST Finnis Scott Foundation Scholar and hand embroiderer ... Read more

‘The exhibition Basketry: Rhythm, Renewal & Reinvention is a visual slice across contemporary UK basket making. There are some 35 maker’s work spilling over all three galleries at Ruthin Craft Centre. The exhibition shows what is being made today – and by whom – across basketry’s beautiful variety of shapes, materials and weaves.’ Jane Audas, August 2021 Alongside ... Read more

The NGC Glass Prize is a European glass prize delivered by the National Glass Centre which features the work of over 40 artists who work in Europe, including QEST Scholar Effie Burns. The selected artworks on display were selected by a panel of judges including Sandra Blach, from Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Reino Liefkes, from the Victoria and ... Read more

Joanna Bird’s winter exhibition Jeu d’esprit describes the play of the spirit and wit, and features the work of a number of contemporary ceramicists including QEST Eranda Foundation Scholar Matthew Warner.

Re-Formation is a wearable art exhibition curated by Erica Rosenfeld and featuring work by QEST Scholar Joanna Manousis. The show includes sixteen artists whose practice employs glass and mixed media in sculpture, installation, performance and functional design.  Rosenfeld asked each of them to re-imagine their work as jewellery, looking at the function of material and ... Read more

'Into the Dark Woods’ beckons us into the fantastic realms of Su Blackwell’s artistic imagination. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, Blackwell has become widely known for her fragile and beguiling book sculptures that play on traditions of origami and shadow puppet theatre. Over time, she has perfected a form of rewriting through ... Read more

This new iteration of Crafted Collectables, available from November 2021, presents small-scale works by gallery artists and the wider community of artist-designer-makers. These sculptural objects and wall pieces act as artefacts to be treasured over a lifetime, nurtured through family generations or gifted in an act of friendship. We believe that within the taxonomy of objecthood the ... Read more

‘For me, garden design isn’t just about plants, it is about emotion, atmosphere, a sense of contemplation. You try to move people with what you do. You look at this, and it goes deeper than what you see. It reminds you of something in the genes — nature, or the longing for nature.’—Piet Oudolf Five ... Read more