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Crafts issue 289: The Place issue

Our July/August issue explores how craft is enlivening our homes, neighbourhoods, cities and rural environments



    • Cover image: Alexandra Kehayoglou, As above, so below (detail), 2019

    The new issue of Crafts focuses on the vibrant entangling between craft and place – looking at how makers are breathing new life into our cities, transforming our living spaces and exploring our connection to the natural world.


    The ceramics installations reinvigorating the centre of St Austell in Cornwall

    Pick up the magazine to get lost in Argentinian textile artist Alexandra Kehayoglou’s vanishing vistas and discover how a Cornish town is being reshaped by clay.


    Artist Brian Clarke's collection of stained glass

    Find out how to give your home the handmade touch and to take an in-depth look inside artist Brian Clarke’s temple to stained glass in London.


    The inside story of craft for the home

    Elsewhere, we meet the surfing potter Adam Buick, check out a textile take-over of Bruges, and discover how designers are bringing play back to our neighbourhoods.

    Pick up Crafts' July/August 2021 issue - out now.


    The state of playgrounds

    UPCOMING TALK

    Space for play: how can makers bring joy back to our cities?

    13 July, 5.30pm

    As we come back together in the public realm, we need places that spark our imagination more than ever, while encouraging interaction, enjoyment and togetherness. In this talk – which will mark the launch of Crafts’ Place issue (July/August 2021) and is free to subscribers – we look at the role of design, making and materials in creating playful spaces for us to congregate.

    Our speakers will include Giles Smith, a founding member of Assemble, and playworker Penny Wilson, who are together masterminding Assemble Play, the architecture collective’s new branch. They will be joined by New York-based sculptor and maker Risa Puno, whose interactive installations use play to encourage people to connect with each other, and Hadrian Garrard, co-director of Create London, which commissions art and architecture for the public realm, including a series of playgrounds for the Becontree Estate. The talk will be chaired by Debika Ray, contributing editor to Crafts.

    Book your ticket today

    If you are a subscriber, you will have received an email from us with your promotion code. If not, email us on crafts@craftscouncil.org.uk

    This Zoom event will feature automatic live closed-captioning


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