What does craft look like and mean to you?

Maker’s Eye: Stories of Craft is the first exhibition in the new Crafts Council Gallery. It celebrates the breadth, diversity and qualities of craft, and includes numerous craft objects made in the UK over the course of the last 50 years.

This exhibition was curated with 13 makers and 1 curator, putting their diverse views on craft and making at its centre. Each of the maker-selectors have work in the Crafts Council Collections. Together, they represent a cross-section of craft interests, disciplines, career stages and models of practice.

Mentsen were commissioned to work on 3D design, tasked with a challenge of displaying over 150 objects of all different disciplines, materials and scales, in a rather compact gallery space of 146 sqm.

Maker’s Eye: Stories of Craft
7 July – 9 October
Crafts Council Gallery, London

Our approach was to not give hierarchy to the objects, but to show them as a whole first, then there are layers to look through, depending on the visitors’ interests.

The collapsible platforms are built with Ecoboard, made from agricultural waste materials and painted in earthy pink, light terracotta colour.

Graphic design by Pentagram. Plinth production by Oval Workshop.