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The playful and provocative meditations of Charlotte Colbert on female sexuality have become a signature of the work of the filmmaker and designer based in London. For the London Craft Week of this year, its life -size tree with the stainless steel bark, which explores the themes of the body, the dreams and the unconscious, takes root in one of the turbines of the Battesea power plant. It brings not only the annual event in innovative spaces, but believes itself with other disciplines because it reflects the building fashion campaign.
It is a large daring declaration counterbalanced by minuscules. For the first time, LCW will join the Kensington Dollshouse long -standing festival which transforms Kensington City Hall into a miniature world.
With more than 400 exhibitions and 1,000 manufacturers, LCW, now in its 11th year, offers a dazzling, if Crushing, program. The city's level of the city encompasses everything, from the Csonnier to the weaving of silk via Suminagashi – the Japanese marbling technique redesigned in a new collaboration by the artist Nat Maks and the furniture manufacturer Sebastian Cox.
The Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Crafts, the main sponsors, offers help to navigate in the options; Its Homo Faber guide can be viewed by region or crafts. In addition to highlighting many craftsmen from the initiative based in London – including the glass sculptor Kira Phoenix K'inan and the guitars manufacturer Daisy Tempest – Homo Faber organizes two live demonstrations at the V & A On Marionette and the Contemporary Bookstore, and a Straw Master Atelier at the Court of Newson.
The best advice from the founder of LCW, Salter, is the secret Ceramics project, organized this year at Christie's. The exhibition will present a hundred works for sale by well -known and promising ceramists – including Hitomi Hosono, Christabel Macgreevy and Claudia Rankin – but they will be presented anonymously. The artist's identity will only be revealed after purchasing the play. The objective is to collect funds for ceramic workshops for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Last year, the product financed the FIREP4's studio charity in White City. “It is life saying how much something that is so simple can make a huge difference, give a goal and light a creative spark,” explains Salter.
There are also a lot of international talents to discover. Korean craftsmanship is again under the spotlight via the Soluna art group at Lavery (formerly Cromwell Place) in Kensington. Dahye Jeong, laureate of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize in 2022, will tie fascinating and delicate 3D forms, inspired by the techniques used in the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) to craftsmanship for men.
The artistic center also organizes an exhibition on the traditional practices of the Bai people of Dali in the province of China of Yunnan: embroidery, indigo textiles, ceramic, dali dreamstones (cut marble slabs and polished to reveal extraordinary models) and money explores the role of spirituality in the wild.
No less bewitching, Wax Atelier will present realistic and fragrant wax roses during his workshop in the Abney Park in northern London, which is home to more than 1,000 varieties. With workshops on the manufacture of wax flowers, the show will reinvent the long lost scents of an old rosarium.
London Craft Week, May 12-18
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