The news file for makers: fair schedules and application deadlines, supplier and material discontinuations, price rises, studio and workshop openings, grant rounds and marketplace policy changes. Entries stay brief and dated, with the source linked. For anyone whose making calendar depends on hearing about a change early.
A festive open evening and a show about postwar photographic fantasy make odd companions. That tension may be the point — or it may be a problem.
Safe, simple paper projects that build little hands with almost no preparation — and almost no cost.
The 11th-century embroidery — some 70 metres of stitched narrative — has been confirmed for display at the British Museum from September 2026, the first time it has returned to Britain since it was made.
Independent makers and collectives are invited to pitch ambitious, craft-led proposals for the next edition of Somerset House's celebrated showcase.
Workshop income looks like easy money until you price the prep hours, the hall hire and the half who book but do not come — here is the real economics of teaching what you make.
Clay, wool, timber and the electricity that fires a kiln have all climbed since 2021; the makers coping best treat materials as a managed cost, not a fixed one.
The Seoul-based ceramicist took the craft world's richest prize in Singapore on 12 May, as the LOEWE Foundation's exhibition of thirty finalists opened at the National Gallery Singapore.