London Craft Week 2025

London Craft Week brings together some of the world's brightest makers, designers, and galleries to celebrate craftsmanship and creativity, and the 2025 edition of the fair featured over 1,000 established and emerging creatives exhibiting across London.

Contributor Fiona Coleman attended the show during its May 12 - 18th, 2025 run and prepared this special report for THE KINDCRAFT.

Momoka Gomi at NM Art and Design

NM Art & Design featured the work of five artists in Mayfair at No. 9 Cork Street during London Craft Week. With themes around dialogue with nature, time, and transformation, textile artist Momoka Gomi stole the show. An artist who primarily works with recycled denim and silk yarn using a mechanical dobby loom in her Nottingham studio, Gomi exhibited a new triptych titled 'Recollection'. The hand-woven abstract landscape in blue and while with a flowing gold line hinted at horizons, mountains, rivers – or, perhaps, it suggests kintsugi, symbolizing the beauty of imperfection and resilience in repair. In any reading, the cotton, linen, silk and polyester textile art piece presents a timeless scene that invites personal interpretation.

Amélie Crepy

Known for her handmade ink textiles, Amélie Crepy presented her first-ever solo show during London Craft Week launching a new collection of upholstery fabrics. Hand-dyed in a biodegradable black color derived from plant-based pigments, Crepy's new collection is sustainably-made with flax that she processed and hand-dyed using foraged materials.

Crepy decided to work with organic pigments in 2019 after having health problems that were caused by toxic synthetic dyes. Today, Crepy only uses pure plant materials and biodegradable color in her work.

Brodie Neill ‘Woodstrokes'

Tasmanian-born, London-based designer Brodie Neill explored irregular and fragmented veneer offcuts using circular design practices to create sculptural pieces for his 'Woodstrokes' exhibition at  9 Cork Street in Mayfair. The furniture designer and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) graduate's experiment resulted in layered, flowing abstract functional forms.

'Tides' by Nat Maks and Brogan Cox

'Tides' is a collection of marbled wood tables designed collaboratively by Brogan Cox and multidisciplinary artist Nat Maks. The two female makers paired Maks's ink marbling with Brogan Cox's contemporary woodworking resulting in sculptural sycamore tables inspired by nature's coastal rhythms in Margate, England.

'The Reflecting Skin' by Maud & Mabel

Ceramicists Akiko Hirai and Kenta Anzai presented 'yAwArAkAi kArA - The Reflecting Skin' exhibition. Inspired by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's "In Praise of Shadows" essay exploring the contrast between Japanese and Western aesthetics,  (やわらかい殻, Yawarakai Kara) loosely translates to "soft shell".

Curated by Maud & Mabel, the exhibition explored "skin" as a metaphor for the surfaces of the ceramic works. Hirai and Anzai's contrasting artistic styles created a dialogue between Hirai's layered, textured ceramics and Anzai's smooth, perfectionistic pieces.

'Landscape of Materials' by Soluna

With the theme of ‘Landscape of Materials’ Soluna Art Group presented Korean craftsmanship with scupltures by Woosun Cheon who works with iron and ottchil (a traditional Korean lacquer technique), Yaerin Pyun whose ceramic art resembles rocks, and Dahye Jeong's delicate pieces made from horse hair.

The Royal Thai Embassy in London

The Royal Thai Embassy in London presented ‘Chud Thai Through the Ages: Weaving History, Craft and Identity’ celebrating traditional dress (Chud Thai) and and cultural heritage in Thailand. Textiles have long been championed by Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother, and modernized by Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya. Ceramicist Panida Taemjan and basket weaver Naparat Tongsapee also represented Thailand's rich artistic culture at London Craft Week 2025.

Turquoise Mountain

Turquoise Mountain was formed in 2006 by His Majesty King Charles III to support artisans in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, and the Levant region.

Myanmar has a long and rich history of making textiles, jewelry, and lacquerware. Today, these heritage crafts are under threat due to political conflict and product mass-production. According to Turquoise Mountain Myanmar, "The craft industry is one of the most promising sectors for economic growth within the country and makes a significant difference in the lives and incomes of thousands of artisans, the majority of whom are women" and encourages collaborations with designers and commercial partners worldwide.