One of my favourite shows, London Craft Week 2025 runs from 12 to 18 May. Here’s a taste of what you can expect
London Craft Week 2025 is a city-wide festival celebrating exceptional craftsmanship, across multiple sectors and disciplines, from around the world.
Since its inception in 2015, the festival has grown significantly in scale and prominence, last year nearly quarter of a million visitors enjoyed the work of more than 1000 makers at events put on by over 200 partners from 31 countries.
The festival encourages those who attend to discover hidden workshops, independent makers, and heritage craftsmen alongside famous artists and designers, national museums and contemporary galleries.
Event highlights
Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) is taking over gallery@oxo in OXO Tower Wharf for its exhibition Craft in Evolution. This exhibition celebrates craftsmanship as a living, breathing practice – one that continues to evolve and inspire. By showcasing a vibrant mix of established and emerging makers, Craft in Evolution promises to underscore the ongoing vitality of the applied arts, illustrating how CAA’s member-makers continue to shape the future of craft and design in exciting and unexpected ways. (image above Dawn, kiln formed glass vessel by Ruth Shelley)
Future Icons Selects is set to be one of the largest gatherings of craft makers at London Craft Week 2025. With over 50 artists confirmed, Future Icons Selects stays true to its mission of supporting and celebrating a diverse range of artisans. Now in its third year, and in a new location in Shoreditch, Future Icons Selects provides a unique platform for both local and international craft makers to showcase their work. This year, there is a strong focus on endangered crafts. (image shows the Canopy rush-seated chair from The Marchmont Workshop)
Ceramicist Emma Louise Payne will unveil her new London atelier, Seventy-Six, during this year’s London Craft Week. Nestled in a charming annex of a residential building in Lancaster Gate, just moments from Hyde Park, this new satellite space offers a seamless fusion of rural artistry and urban accessibility. Seventy-Six will showcase a curated selection of Payne’s signature works and innovative production techniques from her Oxfordshire studio. The atelier serves as a showroom and creative hub, designed to make Payne’s diverse ceramic collections and material archive easily accessible to both existing and new clients. (Emma-Louise’s Meld collection shown at the top of this feature)
County Hall Pottery celebrates its one year anniversary and, to mark the occasion, it will unveil its latest exhibition, GROUND WORKS, which explores the relationship between ceramics and raw materials through the lens of scientific exploration and sustainable practices. Curated by Elena Gileva from GLOST Glaze, 10 artists will be exhibiting including Golden Earth Studio who work with excavation waste from housing developments.
French Craft Collective is London’s only event dedicated to French artisanal craft. This exclusive one-day event is dedicated to high-end design, giving British architects and interior designers the opportunity to discover a hand-picked selection of French craftspeople, highly specialised in private residential and commercial design projects. You will need to register for this event. (image shows ornate wood panelling from Féau Boiseries)
I find miniatures really appealing, so I will be heading to Kensington Town Hall for the Kensington Dolls House Festival an event that brings together top dolls house makers and miniature artists from around the world. Over 40 years, the festival has become the top international show for quality dolls houses, baby houses, miniatures and models.
View the full London Craft Week Programme
And don’t forget, you can find details of all the interior design events throughout the year on my Events page
