‘Velvet’ 2006 by  Mårten Medbo; Photograph: Mårten Medbo, 2006

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Issue No. 237
July/August

Made in Sheffield …but created for the 2012 London Games and designed by Nick Munro. Charlotte Abrahams discovers the craft behind John Lewis’s Olympic silverware

Personal tragedy has led Julian Stair into making some of his most ambitious work, says Emma Crichton-Miller

A former hospital in London’s Battersea has provided the inspiration for a new exhibition from three contrasting artists. Teleri Lloyd-Jones explains all

With a new show about to open, Ismini Samanidou tells Nicole Swengley how photography informs her woven textiles