London Craft Week 2025 Highlights
London Craft Week (12–18 May 2025) offers a unique opportunity to engage with both traditional techniques and contemporary innovations in craft. From workshops to group shows and artisan demonstrations, here’s how the capital is putting its skills on show
Contemporary Applied Arts: Craft in Evolution
13-18 May, 11am to 6pm, Gallery@Oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, SE1 9PH
Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA) is a charity and membership organisation with its own Marylebone gallery, but for London Craft Week it will be spreading its wings to Gallery@Oxo, part of the South Bank’s Oxo Tower complex. Craft in Evolution is a group exhibition of 25 makers that showcases the breadth of the CAA’s membership and their skills. CAA says that “the dialogue between tradition and innovation is key” at the show, with new materials, technologies and processes as well as time-honoured techniques that respond to the modern world. See intricate jewellery from Leicestershire-based Kate Bajic, timber furniture by Laurent Peacock, elegant, organically shaped ceramics from Nancy Main and colour-focused textiles fromJennifer Shellard.
Frieze No.9 Cork Street
14-17 May, 10am to 6pm. Frieze No 9. Cork Street, 9 Cork Street, W1S 3LL
Mayfair’s No.9 Cork Street – the permanent gallery space run by contemporary art behemoth Frieze – hosts a diverse series of shows for London Craft Week. Yali Glass, part of a new generation of Venetian glassmakers reinterpreting traditional techniques, presents Ebb & Flow. A long line of its Kati tables will hover in a surreal glacial landscape elevated above the gallery floor: the tables combine a hand-cast Venetian glass top with Japanese-made bases in copper, brass and steel. East London design showroom and consultancy Béton Brut is moving in for the week, too, with Forge to Fold: Hands at Work from Iron to Paper. Mirrors by the late Italian metalwork designer Salvino Marsura form the centrepiece, in dialogue with contemporary work including aluminium seating by Archive for Space and ‘vegan vellum’ furniture by David Horan.
Mud Australia
12-18 May. Mud Australia, 152 Upper Street, N1 1RA, and 61 Marylebone Lane W1U 2PA
Purveyors of porcelain homewares for 30 years, Mud may have its roots in Australia but is throwing itself wholeheartedly into London’s creative scene. A six-month project has seen the brand collaborate with students from UAL’s London College of Communication, who will be taking over its two stores in Marylebone and Islington, with installations showing their responses to the Mud brand. A series of evening events will runs alongside: in Islington, there’s a floral design workshop with east London florists Rebel Rebel (12 May, 6pm-8pm); still-life painting with artist Georgie Mason (13 May, 6pm-8pm); and a terrazzo workshop with Sonn Studio (14 May, 6pm-8pm). Plus, Mud hosts a panel discussion at London College of Communication (12 May, 6pm-8pm) about phenomenology, exploring how sensory experience, material awareness and emotional resonance can shape better design. Book all events here.
A Rum Fellow: Winding and Weaving
15-17 May, 10am to 5pm. A Rum Fellow, 214 Kensington Park Road, W11 1NR
A Rum Fellow plays host to three days of hands-on workshops at its recently opened showroom in Notting Hill. The brand makes handwoven, sustainable rugs and textiles and the drop-in workshops will take a look at the craft and design process behind the projects. Discover the art of card winding, or try your hand at weaving on a box loom, which will feed in to a collaborative community weave.
Pimlico Road Series
12-18 May, various times and venues. Pimlico Road, SW1W
As a hub of luxury design showrooms, Pimlico Road has a lot of stories to tell when it comes to craft and making. The Pimlico Road Series is the umbrella name for a number of events happening here across London Craft Week, including talks, demonstrations and workshops. It’s a great opportunity to see makers at work first-hand, away from their respective workshops and studios: Carl Hansen & Søn (48a Pimlico Road) hosts A Kaare Klint Experience (14 May, 4.30pm-7.15pm), centred around its English chair, designed by Klint in the early 1930s; while artist Jess Wheeler ships her Dorset studio to And Objects (Unit 5, Newson’s Yard, 57 Pimlico Road) to work on a large-scale sculpture all week as well as giving a day of demonstrations on 14 May (10am-2pm and 4pm-6.30pm). Other showrooms taking part include Rose Uniacke, Plain English, Ochre, de Le Cuona and Cox London.
Chasing Rainbows
12-18 May, Monday to Saturday 10am to 8pm, Sunday 12pm to 6pm. Battersea Power Station, SW11 8BU
As any visitor to Tate Modern knows, the awe-inspiring proportions of a turbine hall make an imposing space for showing art. Battersea Power Station’s own turbine halls will have their artistic moment during London Craft Week: public art consultancy New Public has worked with multimedia artist and filmmaker Charlotte Colbert to install two large scale polished steel works “which invite people to dream, hope and create a future of collective inclusivity”. Colbert’s surreal, fairytale-like point of view is expressed in Where Angels Live, a tree adorned with votive objects; while Dreamland Sirens is a sculpture of a crying eye, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. A tie-in with Battersea Power Station’s retailers will see a shop popping up where limited-edition patches by Colbert can be sewn onto new purchases from the site’s other shops.
