Founded in 1986, The Independent Craft Galleries Association (ICGA) represents the foremost Applied Arts Galleries in the UK that are not dependent on public funding. The Galleries in the Association are elected for the quality of the work they show and the excellence of the way in which they show it. Generally they specialise in showing individual contemporary work from a broad spectrum of makers, but some are more specialised than others and there are some that show work in one specialised area only, particularly jewellery. The range of work is extensive and covers Makers in the various stages of their careers - from the up-and-coming to the well established and the internationally famous. The ICGA website provides listings of all member galleries.