Issue No. 231
July/August

Laikingland works with a host of famous names to create machines for playing, Kara O’Reilly pays a visit to the fun factory

Grant Gibson meets willow-weaver Laura Ellen Bacon who makes installations that are delightful but ever-so-slightly disturbing

Kept alive by a small cadre of professionals and enthusiastic amateurs, calligraphy is coming right back into fashion finds Liz Farrelly

Goldsmith Kevin Coates’s new collection of work is inspired by London’s Wallace Collection and so much more besides, Teleri Lloyd-Jones discovers