At a time when the world has woken up to the visionary creativity of contemporary craft and when – with craft skills making a £3.4bn contribution – its importance to UK economy has never been more explicit, the Crafts Council is delighted to announce the return of Collect to London’s Saatchi Gallery for its 14th edition in February 2018.
An annual highlight of Europe’s creative calendar since 2004, Collect brings together 35 galleries from four continents for a celebration of making, extraordinary in both scale and scope. Museum-quality works and installations from hundreds of the most talented makers in the UK, USA, South Korea, Japan, France, Norway, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden will offer visitors and collectors a multidisciplinary overview of the people, processes, materials and ideas defining international craft in 2018.
From the makers sustaining and enhancing historic craft techniques to experimental artists breaking material boundaries and pioneering new processes, Collect provides an immersive and wide-ranging snapshot of what craft means today, and a glimpse of what it might become in the future.