Artists are pushing conventional craft strategies in all method of instructions on the 2025 London Craft Week (LCW), whereas stretching the probabilities of their supplies to the max. The standouts on this sprawling – and typically discombobulating – showcase of greater than 400 exhibitions, installations and performances throughout the capital are artworks that discover dynamic new expression for heritage abilities, although different installations have caught our consideration with their materials innovation or quiet poetry.
London Craft Week 2025: our highlights
Smoke and Mirrors
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Peascod)
Among the many LCW reveals at The Lavery in South Kensington, a collection of mirrors by Peascod – the Somerset studio based by Emma and Tobias Peascod – are significantly transfixing, making you stare deep into their murky depths. Emma reimagines verre églomisé, the normal artwork of reverse gilding, to create mercurial reflective surfaces, whereas Tobias makes use of jesmonite and bronze to sculpt frames that seize untamed nature, reminiscent of thorns, feathers and creepers. They name their work a up to date tackle Rococo nevertheless it feels more energizing than this, due to its deliciously darkish edge.
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Hair-raising types
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Soluna Artwork Group for London Craft Week 2025.)
Additionally at The Lavery, the artist Dahye Jeong is making a soulful case for sculpting with horse hair on the ‘Panorama of Supplies’ exhibition, offered by Soluna Artwork Group. The 2022 Loewe Basis Craft Prize winner weaves these equine strands into diaphanous types that recall males’s headwear of the Joseon Dynasty, for these within the know – however for the remainder of us, they’ve a drama all of their very own.
Washi wonders
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Japanese washi paper finds contemporary kind within the fingers of a wide range of designers and artists at LCW, wrapping furnishings by David Horan at No. 9 Cork Avenue, for instance – courtesy of Béton Brut – and a monumental, 2m-tall ground lamp by Yanxiong Lin at Charles Burnand gallery in Fitzrovia. Each are completed with lacquer, with the latter working the inside floor of his tree-like kind with grains of silica sand to create a tough texture that displays and refracts the sunshine, making it radiate a moody glow. It’s a part of the gallery’s ‘Remembered Futures’, an exhibition of artists who honour the lineage of Asian craftsmanship, whereas reimagining it in daring new types.
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Secret Ceramics
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An illustrious roll-call of artists has anonymously donated ‘items of themselves’, as FiredUp4 charity co-founder and ceramicist Kate Malone places it, to the Secret Ceramics sale at Christie’s public sale home, offered in partnership with LCW. All works can be found for a minimal donation of £500, however patrons received’t know which artist made them till later. Eagle-eyed guests with a passing little bit of ceramics information will shortly determine works by the likes of Freya Bramble-Carter, Edmund de Waal and Bouke de Vries, however they might want to snap them up quick. Proceeds go in direction of FiredUp4 studios in London, giving younger individuals from deprived backgrounds entry to the wonders of clay.
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Turning the tide
(Picture credit score: Beth Davis,Sebastian Cox, Nat Maks)
Brogan Cox – artistic director of Sebastian Cox studio – has stepped into the limelight along with her first design assortment, ‘Tides’, for the model she co-founded along with her accomplice, made in collaboration with marbling artist Nat Maks and proven at No. 9 Cork Avenue. Each are based mostly within the seaside city of Margate and have drawn inspiration from the ocean. The sycamore tables have tender, rounded edges that recall drift wooden, whereas the marbling captures the ripples and colors of a tidal pool at totally different occasions of day – starting from contemporary inexperienced and blue tones to sundown shades of pink and purple.
Painterly wooden
(Picture credit score: Brodie Neill)
Whereas at No. 9 Cork Avenue, don’t miss the brand new ‘Woodstrokes’ furnishings assortment from Brodie Neill, who has lengthy been creating new design languages with waste. On this case, he stacks wooden veneer off-cuts, then twists, carves and moulds them into tables, mirrors and shelving utilizing a bio-epoxy resin. Their grains seem like brush strokes on the surfaces of the furnishings, to painterly impact.
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Historical types reborn
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Ash & Plumb x The New Craftmaker)
From afar, Ash & Plumb’s vessels – drawing on Greco-Roman, Southeast Asian and Saxon types – appear like they’ve been plucked from an archaeological dig, but they’re truly usual from unseasoned English oak off-cuts, which the duo activate a lathe, hand-carve, scorch, oil and sew. Every bit conveys a reminiscence of the previous, formed into one thing new and intriguing. See them shut up at The New Craftmaker on Pimlico Highway.
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