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What's on: Gaining Ground

Our new exhibition in the Crafts Council Gallery explores global practices that work in harmony with nature

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Inside the new issue of Crafts

Issue 294: Back to the future

The May/June 2022 issue spotlights makers for whom craft is a living link between past, present and future

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Craft stories

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    What to do in Leeds: the craft city guide

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    Meet the makers using hair as a raw material

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    12 craft exhibitions to see in the UK this May

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    How Anna Perach uses an ancient carpet-making technique to tell tales

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    Make First: A new vision for families in the Crafts Council Gallery

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    New exhibition Gaining Ground showcases craft in harmony with nature, says curator Ligaya Salazar

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    ‘Metal was my natural metier’: remembering jeweller and design educator Dorothy Hogg (1945-2022)

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    Textile artist Hanne Friis on exploring the body and the natural world

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    Highlights from the Harewood Biennial

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    How textile designer Althea McNish brought post-war London to life

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    Hew Locke: 'If I wasn’t an artist I would have been a historian'

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    Highlights of Homo Faber 2022

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    Craft's Comeback: Panel talk with Crafts Council x Liberty selected makers


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    Pride Month: Family quilt making with Al Hill


    Crafts Council Gallery, London
    3 June

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Liberty x Crafts Council

Discover the breadth of contemporary craft in the UK today at a new shoppable art exhibition, online and in-store

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