London Craft Week 2025

Craft is often animated by two seemingly opposing tendencies: respect for traditional techniques and the desire to explore new forms. It’s a productive tension that is very much in evidence during London Craft Week, which features the work of more than 1,000 craftspeople from around the world (12–18 May). With hundreds of exhibitions, installations, performances and talks, the event offers a chance both to see craft at its best and also to get stuck in: ‘Secret Ceramics’, for instance, presents work by makers such as Hitomi Hosono, Christabel MacGreevy and Claudia Rankin without telling us who made what, while workshops are popping up at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Courtauld Gallery and elsewhere. No. 9 Cork Street is an especially good place to see how craft links the past with the future: the products on show put a contemporary spin on techniques such as glassblowing, woodwork, marbling and straw marquetry.

Find out more from London Craft Week’s website.
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Untitled work by AOI (An Ocean of Ideas) for ‘A Sensory Journey in Craft’ at London Craft Week 2025. Courtesy London Craft Week

Untitled pieces by an anonymous artist for ‘Secret Ceramics’ at London Craft Week 2025. Courtesy London Craft Week

Thai royal cloth at London Craft Week 2025. Courtesy the Thai Royal Embassy, London