Craftspace – Developing people, ideas and opportunities through contemporary craft

Developing people, ideas and opportunities through contemporary craft

Apply: Radical Craft Development Lab

A new artist development programme delivered in partnership between Outside In and Craftspace, for 8 emerging women artists based in the West Midlands who face barriers to accessing the art world. Deadline 30 August 2026.

Shop: Workshop-in-a-Box

Discover your creativity with carefully chosen craft materials and expert guidance from artists.
Get started with one of our three boxes – Paper Craft, Off-Loom Weaving or Collage, Mark-Making and Stitch.

Explore: Made in the Middle Virtual Tour

Celebrating the best of contemporary craft in the Midlands.

Explore: Crafting Pathways

A project for four Birmingham-based young people to develop their artistic skills, interests and identities, and learn more about what it is like to work as an artist.

Watch: Stories of Making and Migration

Find out about Midlands-based everyday makers influenced by migration.

4 wall hangings on a white gallery wall. they show simple graphic images of objects, using a different colour on each quilt.

40 Objects for 40 Years

A graphic quilt series by Stewart Francis Easton, commissioned for Craftspace’s 40th anniversary.

An array of blue clothes hang on a large rustic wooden stand along with some mending tools.

Make: Blue Fashion Commons

Explore the commons and embellish your blue clothes with English smock motifs.

Hands hold a half done weaving sample. Pushing the yarn upwards to make a tight pattern.

Shop: Workshop-in-a-Box

A great summer holiday project for short breaks or the long school holidays.

Lots of tiny figures standing in rows made from nuts and seeds.

Apply: Development Programme

For emerging women artists.

A bright bouquet of flowers, laid on a table, made from ceramic. The flowers are swirls of clay in gold, silver, purple, pink, blue and red.

40 Years: A Sense of Occasion

Exploring traditions, ceremonies and rituals.

Inside a gallery a woman is performing with tools and glass, there is a large flame, other glass vessels are filled with water.

Watch: Torcher Chamber Arkestra

From the archive: a performance of glassblowing and music

Six brightly coloured, differently sized vases. Each vase is entirely one colour, and differently shaped. The surfaces are decorated with many sharp grooves, creating lines top to bottom.

Made in the Middle: Virtual Tour

Explore the best of contemporary craft from the Midlands.

A group of 6 women from varied ethnic backgrounds and ages pose in white workshop aprons, they are all smiling.

Find out more: Shelanu

Supporting migrant and refugee women.

colour photograph of a gallery space interior. The words {Queer}+{Metals} is visible on a white wall. Various large images hang on the walls and work is displayed in cases.

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From the Shop

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Workshop in a Box: Collage, Mark-Making and Stitch

Workshop in a Box

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Workshop in a Box: Paper Craft

Workshop in a Box

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Workshop in a Box: Off-Loom Weaving

Workshop in a Box

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Made in the Middle (2025-2026) Exhibition Catalogue

Made in the Middle

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Shelanu Nurture Collection: Sunflower Brooch

Shelanu Nurture Collection

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We are Commoners Exhibition Catalogue

We are Commoners

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We are Commoners Goose Badge

We are Commoners

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Brooch Making Kit

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Shelanu Interlocking Stories Collection: Catch Ring

Shelanu Interlocking Stories

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Shelanu Migrating Birds Collection: Swallow Earrings

Shelanu Migrating Birds

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Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making Exhibition Catalogue

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