Contemporary glass at London Craft Week 2025

Once again top-quality craft and design will be showcased at venues across London during London Craft Week, from 12-18 May 2025. Featuring 1,000+ makers, the festival presents over 400 exhibitions, masterclasses, workshops and demonstrations.

Glass will be featured as part of ‘The Cockpit Edit: An Exhibition of Leading and Next Generation Makers’ (12-16 May), hosted by Cockpit Bloomsbury (Cockpit Yard, Northington Street, London, WC1N 2NP), one of the two locations of Cockpit Studios – supporting a creative community of over 175 independent businesses. More than 100 pieces, including glass, textiles, jewellery, wooden vessels, sculpture and wearable art will be available to view and purchase in Cockpit’s first ever selling exhibition. CGS board member Katharine Coleman MBE (glass engraver), Michele Oberdieck (glass blower), Theo Brooks (glass blower) and Helen Brough (painted glass/mixed media) are taking part. There will also be demonstrations by makers in their studios. For example, Helen Brough will demonstrate glass painting on 15 May 3.30-4pm. The exhibition is free to attend (registration required) and demonstration tickets (with same-day admission to the exhibition) are £12.50, to support Cockpit’s artists. There is a private view on 12 May and the public can attend from 13-16 May (12-6pm daily). Find out more and book via this link.

Glass master Elliot Walker will be among speakers at the V&A Museum in South Kensington on 13 May, as part of its second Craft Symposium (taking place from 10.30-13.00 in the Hochhauser Auditorium at the V&A, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL). His presentation, ‘Holy Sheet’, will cover the importance of traditional sheet glass making as a craft and how he intends to use and explore the process, physically and conceptually, in his work. In tandem with the on-site event, it is possible to book onto a live stream of the Symposium. Find out more about all the speakers and book via this link.

There will be various international pavilions presented by different countries, with the South Korean pavilion (at Hazel Gallery, 4 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JE) including works by two glass artists, Keeryong Choi and Kyouhong Lee in the Soluna Art Group exhibition ‘Landscape of Materials’ from 29 April until 18 May.

These are just a handful of highlights. Full details of everything happening at London Craft Week are available here, including the programme and map of locations taking part.