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LCW Newsletter #3 — April 2015

Message from Charles Saumarez Smith, Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts

I have been interested in the Crafts pretty well all my life, not least because I am married to a Bookbinder-turned-Jeweller, who was trained at Camberwell School of Arts in the late 1970s and then worked as a bookbinder for nearly twenty years before turning to the more miniature world of fine art jewellery.
 
As a result, we have always followed, and as far as possible collected, the work of other craftspeople, first at the Cropredy Gallery in North Oxfordshire which was run by Ann Hartree in a barn owned by the Crossmans, later through the Crafts Council shop at the V&A and Marsden Woo, and more recently by going on annual pilgrimages to Collect at the V&A and the Saatchi Gallery.
 
In the early 1980s, craft was either low value and rural in the Bernard Leech rustic tradition or low value and urban in a funky Crafts Council way.   What I have watched with the utmost interest is the way that Craft practice has gradually become properly accepted, as it should be, as a fine art with the emergence of practitioners who would not dream of being called craftspeople like Grayson Perry, Edmund de Waal and Hylton Nel.   Just as important has been the emergence of dealers and galleries who treat the work with appropriate seriousness, like Adrian Sassoon and The New Craftsman.  
 
London Craft Week will bring this form of practice which sits between art, traditional craft and luxury goods to a wider public.

Charles Saumarez Smith
Royal Academy of Arts

COLLECT: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects

For four days, the COLLECT fair brings some of the finest collectible craft from galleries across the world to London, displaying a line-up of museum-quality work from a roster of well-established artists alongside pieces from the craft world’s next generation of talent.
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Made of Mayfair
The New Craftsmen

Since summer 2014, seven makers in variety of disciplines have been developing work in response to their Mayfair surroundings, drawing on the architecture and craft heritage that have contributed to the area’s history.During London Craft Week, both in The New Craftsmen’s Mayfair space and around the neighbourhood, seven makers will share the stories, objects and processes they have worked on.
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The Artworkers' Guild 
Friday 8 May 2015
16:00 - 18:30

The Guild is rarely open to the public, but for London Craft Week, it offers a unique opportunity to see inside its Bloomsbury facilities. Visitors will have the chance to meet the Guild’s secretary, learn about its work and discover its rich and influential history.
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The Crafted City
at CAA

The centre of The Crafted City is a specially created pavilion, which will embody the balance of beauty and function, and will demonstrate interdisciplinary collaboration and showcase a variety of applied arts.  Designed and made by leading craftspeople working across a range of disciplines, the pavilion is a gathering point for a weeklong forum for discussion about the importance of craft in contemporary life.
VIEW EVENT
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Visit www.londoncraftweek.com to view more of the other events and makers that will be taking part during London Craft Week. Many events will be free of charge and no booking necessary. Some events will charge a small fee and need prior booking. 



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