CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ARTS CELEBRATES 75 YEARS
As part of a series of exhibitions for the gallery's anniversary this month Contemporary Applied Arts is showcasing the work of its talented and diverse textile makers. Weaving, stitch, pleating, folding and printing, the gallery has come alive in a splash of colour showing new textile works by Caroline Bartlett, Neil Bottle, Majeda Clarke, Emily Jo Gibbs, Ali Holloway, Michelle House, Jennifer Shellard, Dr Hannah White and Helen Yardley.
Image: Cornish Grey Felt, Helen Yardley, 2023 photo credit Olivia Yardley. Image above: If I Could Tell You, Ali Holloway, 2022, photo credit Olivia Yardley.
Contemporary Applied Arts, often called CAA, is London’s original multi-disciplinary applied arts gallery. For more than 75 years, they have championed and promoted only the very best of British craft. Their sole aims is to advocate for the applied arts and to campaign for and foster quality and innovation in this field.
Image: Permutations 1, Caroline Bartlett, 2023, photo credit Olivia Yardley.
A registered charity and a membership organisation with more than two hundred leading British-based craft-maker artists working in ceramics, furniture, glass, jewellery, metal, paper, textiles and wood. They view this inter-disciplinary approach as a harmonious dialogue between materials, techniques and diverse approaches to making. Selected maker members are craft professionals and are rigorously chosen by a panel of their peers.
The exhibition will be on view at the Marylebone gallery until 24 June 2023.
Find out more:
www.caagallery.org.uk