A series of innovative touring exhibitions are available for hire to small and medium sized galleries, museums and arts venues across the UK. The exhibitions showcase contemporary craft, inspiring commissions, loaned works and objects from the Collection. Exhibitions are flexible in size and available for hire with full exhibition build and interpretation for a period of 8 weeks or more.
For more information email our exhibitions department at exhibitions@craftscouncil.org.uk
- Read more
See/ Raw Craft: fine thinking in contemporary furniture
This new touring exhibition explores a contemporary craft movement, presenting works characterised by a deliberate transparency of technique, materiality and process.
- Read more
See/ Added Value? Authenticity, Quality and Craftsmanship
Added Value? questions the value of contemporary craft within the current landscape of branding and luxury, featuring the work of Zoe Arnold, Bompas & Parr, carréducker, Simon Hasan, Tracy Kendall and Oliver Ruuger.
- Read more
See/ The Yellow Wallpaper: A Crafts Council Collection Exhibition
Inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 novella The Yellow Wallpaper, artist Tom Gallant has selected quotes from this story to introduce examples of furniture, photography, animation and digital art.
- Read more
See/ Block Party: inspired by the art of the tailor
Curated by visual artist Lucy Orta, Block Party celebrates the skill of the pattern cutter and tailor, and explores the creative possibilities of this craft.
- Read more
See/ Out of Print: Bookbinding & letterpress
In 1991 renowned graphic designer Malcolm Garrett asked, in his now seminal essay, if ‘The Book is Dead?’ In this exhibition Garrett revisits this question twenty years on.
- Read more
See/ A White, A Blue, A Yellow, Red Poetry by Jeremy Reed
Jeremy Reed has been one of Britain’s most dynamic, adventurous and controversial British poets. He has been asked to select objects from the Crafts Council Collection and to create poems in response.






