2009
Read moreOpen Studios at Cockpit Arts
Released: 3 December 2009
Time for a bit of Christmas shopping, so I headed over to Holborn..
Read moreBritish Ceramics Biennial
Released: 21 October 2009
Crafts magazine went to Stoke for a look round the British Ceramics Biennial. Here are a few things that caught our eye…
Read moreOperating Heavy Machinery
Released: 24 September 2009
During the flurry of the London Design Festival I was lucky enough to take part in a letterpress workshop at SORT’s (the Society of Revisionist Typographers) pop-up shop off Carnaby Street.
Read moreMud, mud, glorious mud
Released: 3 September 2009
The premise behind the Marl Hole project, curated by Neil Brownsword, was relatively straightforward: take four internationally renowned artists, remove their familiar tools, and let them loose for five days in a clay pit…
Read moreHoliday-maker
Released: 26 August 2009
Once again, I return from my holiday with a couple of crafty things in my suitcase… and perhaps some other unrelated cool things that I’m shoe-horning in, just a little.
Read moreNew Designers 2009
Released: 13 August 2009
Just like every year, New Designers ’09 was jam-packed with fresh faces and brand new work. Here’s a selection of what we saw at week one.
Read moreRCA Show Two
Released: 11 August 2009
Well we couldn’t just show you things from first RCA show without showing you the things that caught our eye in the second, so here are some highlights.
Read moreWhat does a spoon taste like?
Released: 27 July 2009
In the basement of King’s College there are people tasting spoons for research. I offered up my services as a guinea pig and found myself blind-folded in a room under the Strand.
Read moreCrafting on the plinth
Released: 23 July 2009
Deirdre Figueiredo, director of Craftspace, was selected to be a ‘plinther’ for Antony Gormley’s One & other art work. At 8 o’clock on Friday 17 July, she took her place in Trafalgar Square – check out the outfit!
Read moreArt in Action, Waterperry
Released: 20 July 2009
Visit Art In Action, spend a day in the country? ‘Great!’, I thought, ‘a chance to get out of the big smoke, see some craft, breathe in some fresh air, soak up the sun, and say hi to a few cows’. But the country had other ideas…
Read moreSurface Tensions at UCA
Released: 6 July 2009
Creative practitioners, academics and conservationists got together at University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, to talk about objects and their surfaces. We sat in and learnt a few things…
Read moreMaker Difference - make a pot
Released: 18 June 2009
On a warm Friday evening at Cockpit Arts Holborn, Grant Gibson, editor of Crafts magazine, bravely swapped his laptop and mobile for a potter’s wheel. Here how he got on…
Read moreRHS Chelsea Flower Show
Released: 22 May 2009
Searching for things crafty at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Read moreMilan Furniture Fair, April 2009
Released: 1 May 2009
Crafts magazine editor Grant Gibson went to Milan and this is what he saw…
Read moreTeleri makes a spoon
Released: 16 April 2009
The Goldsmiths’ Company kindly invited Crafts magazine to join in a workshop on how to make a silver spoon. Always eager to learn a new skill and put my appalling hand-eye co-ordination to the test I attended.
Read moreGrant Gibson's Bornholm Blog
Released: 26 March 2009
Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea has a rich history of crafts. This is a photo-diary of my two days on this quite charming island.
