London Craft Week 2025: A City-Wide Celebration of Making
14th April 2025
QEST Scholar Jazmine Miles-Long (photography Mark Cocksedge)
Celebrating outstanding British and international creativity, London Craft Week brings together over 1000 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world.
We’re delighted to once again be Strategic Partner of London Craft Week and are looking forward to seeing the city come alive with new work and stories from craftspeople.
Numerous QEST Alumni will be presenting their newest creations. Below are some key highlights — view the full #LCW2025 programme here.
Future Icons Selects
83 Rivington Street, 15-18 May
In their new Shoreditch home, Future Icons presents over 50 talented artisans across a wide range of crafts. QEST Alumni include Carl Fox, Epona Smith, Fleur Grenier, Angela Fung, Jacky Oliver, Valérie Wartelle, and Willow Bloomfield.
Novus Collection: Part II
The New Craftmaker, 12-28 May
Ash & Plumb, co-founded by QEST Turners’ Company Scholar Barnaby Ash, present their first solo show at The New Craftmaker, introducing a new body of work titled Novus Collection: Part II. This exhibition continues their exploration of archetypal form, material memory, and quiet strength. The vessels on display reflect their evolving relationship with wood — each one shaped slowly by hand, guided by the grain, and grounded in a deep reverence for ancient form.
Book tickets for an in conversation with Sarah Myerscough on 13 May.
Homo Faber Demonstrations
V&A Museum, 13 May
This year’s participants in the Homo Faber Fellowship — master puppetry artist Oliver Hymans, emerging talent Ash Appadu, master bookbinder Manuel Mazzotti, and craft graduate Chihiro Shigemitsu — will share their respective crafts through live demos.
Low Tide / High Tide
9 Cork St, 14-17 May
Marbling artist and QEST Scholar Nat Maks, and furniture design studio Sebastian Cox, collaborate on a new collection of occasional tables, reinterpreting natural movements through the making process.
The Art of Making
The Art Workers’ Guild, 17-18 May
The Art Workers’ Guild celebrates a wide range of crafts through exhibitions, demonstrations and talks. Alongside 20 makers, QEST Scholar Jazmine Miles-Long will exhibit taxidermy sculptures, ranging in size and colour. Jazmine will be demonstrating painting a hand sculpted cast frog from start to finish.
Sat 17 May, 11.30am
Jazmine Miles-Long: What is a taxidermist? Ethics, emotions, materials, and process.
Sun 18 May, 1pm
Artfully Crafted: Alienor Cros is joined by a panel of makers including enamel artist Belinda Coyne, sculptor Jo Grogan, textile artist Joanne Lamb and carver Sofia Karakatsanis.
BOUND: Embroidered RealitiesÂ
Batsford Gallery, 13-18 May
Featuring both returning and new exhibiting makers, the show explores the compelling tension between traditional needlework and contemporary textile art. Showcasing works which challenge embroidery’s historical role, reclaiming it as a powerful tool for self-expression; where thread becomes a means of storytelling, and altered perceptions. The exhibition features the work of 10 makers, including QEST Broderers’ Company Scholar Hanny Newton.
The Cockpit Edit
Cockpit Bloomsbury, 12-16 May
The Cockpit Edit is a curated selling exhibition highlighting work from Cockpit’s maker community, including 2024 QEST Bendicks Scholar Jacky Oliver. Hosted at Cockpit Bloomsbury during LCW, the exhibition features pieces from leading and emerging makers working across twenty craft disciplines. All works are available to purchase exclusively during the event. Visitors can also see live demonstrations in makers’ studios throughout the week.
