Menu

  • Home
  • Gallery
  • Stories
  • What's on
  • Directory
    • Overview
    • Supporting craft businesses
    • Opportunities
    • Join the directory
    • Craft business resources
    • Hothouse
    • How to get your craft business ready for Brexit
    • Overview
    • How we work
    • Get making
    • Craft careers
    • Education
    • Craft education pledge
    • Participation
    • Young Craft Citizens
  • Crafts magazine
    • Overview
    • About the collections
    • How to hire and borrow
    • Exhibitions
  • Collect art fair
    • Overview
    • Our work
    • Our team
    • Governance
    • Working here
    • History
    • Contact us
    • Research and policy
    • Diversity and inclusion
    • Craft UK
    • Press
    • Overview
    • Appeals and projects
    • Patrons
    • A gift in your will
    • Corporate partnerships
    • Our supporters and partners

Quick Links

  • Opportunities
Home
Login
Crafts CouncilCollections

Exhibitions

50 years of contemporary craft exhibitions presented by the Crafts Council across the UK and around the world


  • Crafts Council exhibition
  • Crafts Council collection

The Power of Making, 2011. Photo: V&A Images

Throughout our 50-year history the Crafts Council have presented numerous exhibitions that shine a spotlight on contemporary craft and its makers.  We draw extensively on our Collection to produce exhibitions, working with a wide range of curators, designers & film-makers to produce high-quality and thoughtful explorations of craft.  These have included: 

The Power of Making - an exhibition curated by Daniel Charny in 2011 in partnership with the V&A

Acts of Making - a touring festival that celebrated and explored contemporary craft through performance, ephemeral practice and live installations in locations including Plymouth, Gateshead and Wolverhampton.  

What is Luxury? - an exploration of the relationship between craft and luxury in 2015 in partnership with the V&A

States of Play - a Crafts Council and Hull 2017 Partnership Exhibition, supported by the British Council, which shows how play shapes our lives and the world around us

Exhibitions that are currently available to visit around the country can be found in our What’s On section.

Exhibitions that are available to hire are detailed below.

Increasingly we work in partnership with venues and organisations that want to showcase craft. If you would like to explore a partnership opportunity with us then please drop us a line at exhibitions@craftscouncil.org.uk

Touring exhibitions from the collection

  • Exhibitions

    Great and Small: Crafted Creatures

    • Crafts Council exhibition
    • Crafts Council collection
  • Exhibitions

    Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry

    • Crafts Council collection
    • Crafts Council exhibition
  • Exhibitions

    Misshapes: the Making of Tatty Devine

    • Jewellery
    • Crafts Council exhibition
  • Exhibitions

    Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival

    • Crafts Council exhibition
    • Film

Share

  • Facebook 
  • Twitter 
  • Whatsapp 
  • Email 
  • Pinterest 
  • ...

Read more

  • Stories

    Matt Smith’s tapestries and ceramics challenge history

    • Exhibitions
    • Crafts Council collection
  • About the gallery

    • Crafts Council collection
    • Crafts Council exhibition
  • Exhibitions

    Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry

    • Crafts Council collection
    • Crafts Council exhibition

Stay informed and inspired

Select an option to receive a newsletter

Follow us

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest

Crafts Council
44a Pentonville Road
London N1 9BY

reception@craftscouncil.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7806 2500

Reg. charity no. 280956

  • Our work
  • Our team
  • Privacy policy