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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



    • Cover image: Cannupa Hanska Luger's Future Ancestral Technologies: New Myth, 2021. Photo: Gabe Fermin, White Sands, NM. Image courtesy Garth Greenan Gallery and the artist

    Our cover star Cannupa Hanska Luger looks to his Native American ancestors for inspiration, drawing from historical approaches to materials and making to create work that is deeply embedded in contemporary politics, while in London the founders of Studio Furthermore draw on scientific techniques refined over decades to make ceramics destined for outer space.


    Studio Furthermore's otherworldly designs

    We meet craftspeople applying timeless hand-skills to working with plastic waste and explore traditional techniques from around the world that could help in our fight to save the planet.


    Textile titans Sheila Hicks and Magdalena Abakanowicz

    Elsewhere, we look at Esna Su’s woven response to the Syrian refugee crisis and delve into the work of two twentieth-century titans of textiles, Sheila Hicks and Magdalena Abakanowicz, as their work goes on display at major institutions.

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    The makers and designers giving new life to old plastic

    TALK – 'Gaining Ground: How ancient craft knowledge can shape our future'
    Online or in-person from 6.30-8pm, 10 May

    To mark the launch of the May/June issue of Crafts magazine and the opening of the Crafts Council's new exhibition Gaining Ground, the Crafts Council Gallery is hosting a discussion about how traditional craft practices can help repair our ecosystems and societies.

    Hear from two exhibitors from the show: basketmaker Annemarie O’Sullivan, who grows 20 varieties of willow near her East Sussex studio, and ceramic artist Jay Mistry, who has been collaborating with potters in Guyana to preserve Indigenous identity through clay. They will be joined by Daniel Olatunji, founder of the slow fashion menswear label Monad London, which works with artisans using traditional craft techniques across the globe. The talk will be chaired by Crafts magazine's Debika Ray.

    The in-person event will take place at the Crafts Council Gallery, 44A Pentonville Road, London, N1 9BY. Tickets cost £10 to attend in person or £8.50 to watch online.

    Subscribers to Crafts get free access to this event. If you are a subscriber, you will have received an email from us with your promotion code. If not, email us at crafts@craftscouncil.org.uk

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