Register for the Conversations in Craft talks programme – all free to watch again. Curated to engage and inspire, get top level insights from renowned experts and the craft industry’s leading lights.
Guest speakers: Kate Malone, ceramic artist, Bill Amberg, founder of Bill Amberg Studio, and Christopher Day, glass and mixed media artist
Chair: Grant Gibson
Three of the nation’s leading makers discuss the materials that have defined their lives and careers.
In-person event: TALK, Third Floor, South Dome
Guest speakers: Annie Warburton, CEO of Cockpit Arts, Rachel Dickson, dean of Academic Programmes at Central Saint Martins for the fashion, jewellery textiles and materials, product, ceramic and industrial design, and Mac Collins, designer and maker
Chair: Grant Gibson
As the world reels from the pandemic, this talk asks how important beauty really is to our lives? Can an object be beautiful without being sustainable and ethical? And what might the maker’s role be in an economy with shifting priorities?
In-person event: TALK, Third Floor, South Dome
Speakers: Peter Ting, co-founder of Ting-Ying Gallery, Shiro Muchiri, founder and creative director of SoShiro, and Nazy Vassegh, founder of Eye of the Collector
Chair: Grant Gibson
How will the turmoil of the past few years – from Brexit to COVID, via the Me Too movement and the rise of Black Lives Matter – change the art market? Has our recent reliance on digital technology (and Zoom, in particular) changed our relationship to physical work? And if so, what might galleries of the future look like?
In-person event: TALK, Third Floor, South Dome
Guest speakers: Emma Crichton-Miller, journalist and editor of The Design Edit, Johnny Messum, founder of Messums Wiltshire, and Sebastian Cox, furniture designer, maker and environmentalist
Chair: Grant Gibson
Craft has traditionally been seen as the poor relation to fine art and design. But is this hierarchy still relevant? Or are things about to change?
In-person event: TALK, Third Floor, South Dome
Guest speakers: Marijke Varrall-Jones, founding director of Maak, Corinne Julius, curator, journalist, critic and broadcaster, Simone Brewster, artist and designer, and Lucy Swift, curator at Cluster London
Chair: Grant Gibson
Why do we place value on certain objects and not others? How is the market for craft shifting? And how can makers and galleries find a new generation of collectors? Oh and how on earth do you start creating a collection in the first instance? Have these (and other questions) answered.
In-person event: TALK, Third Floor, South Dome
Host: Brian Kennedy, independent curator
Guest speakers: Charlotte Kidger, Dalia James, Eusebio Sanchez, Rayvenn D’Clark and Mitch Pilkington
A series of quick-fire presentations from a fistful of up-and-coming designers and makers featured in the Form Made From installation. Find the next wave of craft talent here.
Guest speaker: Jay Blades
Chair: Grant Gibson
Grant Gibson talks to The Repair Shop presenter, modern furniture restorer, up-cycler, and eco-designer about mentoring, dyslexia, the importance of skill, the need for diversity in design, and his extraordinary life.
Stuff and Sustainability
Guest speaker: Alberto Cavalli, executive director of the Michelangelo Foundation
Chair: Grant Gibson
Grant Gibson discusses the relationship between making and the environment with the Michelangelo Foundation executive director. Is craft really the answer to a more sustainable future? And can it help create real change?
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