London Craft Week celebrates its 10 year anniversary in style

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London Craft Week kicked off this week bringing together over 1000 established and emerging makers and galleries. The festival runs until 19 May 2024.

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00:00Things have definitely become better for craft in general. I think when we started there

00:23was a bit of a perception that craft was the correlation of contemporary or fine art or

00:28maybe it was people knitting, that kind of thing. Whereas I think a lot of those

00:33perceptions have changed for the better. London Craft Week's brilliant because it's an

00:38opportunity to just kind of overload on craft. You get to see a lot of stuff all in one place,

00:43all in one week. I think it's really easy to answer why you should get into craft. It's

00:48tactile, it's creative, there's a sense of achievement and focus when I make that is

00:57I don't achieve anywhere else in my life.

00:59London is an extraordinary sort of cultural hub and also is a welcoming

01:28place. You get people from all around the world, often whose governments are absolutely

01:37at loggerheads with each other, but there's a sort of common language of creativity and

01:40openness to people and ideas and so on, which is brilliant.

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