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 Marsh Park in Devon from 9-11 June.

On our stand we will be showcasing works created by young people at the MAKE Southwest Craft&Making club, one of four inaugural clubs run by National Saturday Club in partnership with QEST this year. The fair coincides with the last day of this year’s club, and it’s participants will have the opportunity to visit the fair and see their works on display.

We will also be joined by ceramicist and QEST Apprentice Bluebell Hill, who will be leading a drop-in children’s workshop on the Saturday to inspire young visitors. The workshop theme is land, sea and sky, and attendees will have the opportunity to hand-mould an ornament, pendant or vessel in clay and decorate it with the imprint of leaves, shells and feathers. Young people from the Craft&Making club will be volunteering to help with the workshop and pass on their new skills.

With support of a QEST Garfield Weston Foundation Apprenticeship, Bluebell completed her apprenticeship with Richard Phethean at Tresabenn Studio in Penzance and went on to teach a number of workshops. Alongside her practice creating functional earthenware pottery inspired by the Cornish landscape, she is now a technician at Penwith College, Penzance.

Craft Festival Bovey Tracey is a much-loved craft event, offering shopping, workshops, demonstrations, street theatre, festival food, live music and much more. Buy your tickets here.