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LCW Newsletter #6 — May 2015

Robin Wood, Woodturner, Toolmaker 

Gives us his insight into London Craft Week 

It's been great to be involved in this new breakthrough event. My own workshop is an eighteenth-century stone-built stable high in the Derbyshire hills and London Craft Week is an opportunity to be given front row exposure in the capital so far from my country based practice. Just like the other craftspeople involved in the Week, I strive for excellence, focusing on the detail and quality when making bowls from a particular tree. My current tree is a 162 year-old beech, planted in 1853; it will be in my possession for more than a year before the finished bowls find their way to customers. Craft may take time but increasingly there are more discerning customers who are prepared to search out people with passion, dedication and skill and from my perspective that is exactly why London Craft Week has emerged as a timely and vital platform for us all to celebrate this together.

My customers are interested in the stories and provenence behind the objects we make and one way of telling the story of craft and bringing our workshops and practices to London is through photography. The Heritage Craft Association's first Craft Photographer of the Year competition has been on at The Prince's Foundation in Shoreditch and it was great to have such a good response. 

Certainly, London may be a long way from my stone workshop in the hills but my bowls have been shown at the New Craftsmen in Mayfair, and also at Fortnum and Mason as part of Walpole's Crafted, throughout the week. Fortnum & Mason is open on Sunday's so you can still go along. Yesterday I was at our Heritage Craft Association's "A Place for Craft” in the Lecture Theatre at the V&A. Speakers included Sir Christopher Frayling, and the creative director of Harris Tweed. It's about time we had a London Craft Week and I am proud to be involved in the first one in many different ways. 

Robin Wood
Woodturner, Toolmaker and Chair of the Heritage Craft Association

Crafted
Fortnum & Mason

Throughout Fortnum & Mason’s Piccadilly store, a showcase of 28 craftsmen from the Walpole Crafted mentoring programme. The exhibition of over a 100 pieces of contemporary craft, looks at the broad range of makers supported by the Walpole Crafted programme and includes, ceramics, glass, jewellery, millinery, paper, silver and wood.
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Cockpit Arts
Spring Open Studios

Cockpit Arts is an award-winning social enterprise and creative-business incubator supporting 170 talented designer-makers from around the UK. From 8 May, as part of London Craft Week, Cockpit holds the first of its twice-yearly open-studio events, inviting visitors to peek behind the scenes and purchase designers' work.
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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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