Cræftwork

1 August - 10 september 2025

Pavement Finissage Tuesday 2 September 6-8pm

Pavement reception with the artist at Camden Peoples Theatre. BYOB.

Cræftwork celebrates the handmade and heritage crafts in our digital age. The exhibited works demonstrate the artists' skill, with an emphasis on traditional materials and processes used in contemporary ways.

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CATHERINE ADE

Ade is a collaborative lithographer living in Bristol, UK and has my own studio, The Lemonade Press. Through lithographic printmaking Ade explores environments we create for ourselves to examine the strangeness of the everyday. Drawing directly on the limestone with crayon and tusche, she renders private interior spaces of familiar rooms and objects to represent the fallibility of memory and transient, fleeting moments of human existence. The scenes in her work are set in her grandparents farm house which has witnessed three generations play out their narrative within its walls. The family are all inextricably linked to the land, and are custodians passing through it 

CHARLES AVERY

has dedicated himself to a singular world-building project through the depiction of an imaginary island. The Islanders is a detailed portrayal of the inhabitants, topography, and culture of a fictional island, formed extensively through drawings, writings, objects, architecture and design.

Charles Avery (b. 1973 in Oban, UK) lives and works in London and on the Island of Mull (UK). Selected solo exhibitions include The Eidola, Pigs and Blades of the Inner Vast, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); The Nothing of the Day, GRIMM, London (UK); The Hunter returns / goes away from, GRIMM, Amsterdam, (NL); Zoo, Hat, Bridge, Tree: Architectural Propositions of Onomatopoeia, Vistamarestudio, Milan (IT); a wall, a bridge, an arch, a hat, a side-show, a square circle, a group of friends, and two one-armed snakes, GRIMM, New York, NY (US); The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), 2020; and The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK).

EVA BOCKOVA

Bockova is a Czech artist and illustrator living in London. Her prints, paintings and drawings are a gently subversive play on language, perception and meaning. She retains the immediacy of drawing through her focus on traditional line etching with fine detail and a quirky antique look. Bockova’s work is inspired by literature, history, old art and nature and has been shaped by growing up in 1980’s Czechoslovakia.

Bockova has been developing her printmaking practice at the East London Printmakers studio since completing a Foundation diploma in art and design at CityLit Art School in London.

JACK BRINDLEY

holds a MA in painting from the Royal Collage of Art; and now works almost exclusively with ‘architectural-glass’ ( aka stained glass) as a means to explore the role of art within the contemporary built environment. ‘Art to live with, rather than art to look at’; Brindley aims to examine stained glass as a modern architectural medium capable of transforming the spaces we inhabit, offering an immersive experience through the interplay of material and light.

Brindley’s studio is based in Edinburgh, and has delivered projects worldwide. The majority of his work are site specific commissions that employ a combination of both traditional and modern techniques which explore how we can be sensitive to the quality of light present and available in a space, and how we might enhance it with glass.  These works 'Table Sculptures' are part of  ongoing series of small desk or shelf based works. Often comprised of cast glass and cast aluminium element, Brindley views them as architectural investigations. Almost like scale models, both physically a sculpture in its own sense, but also a projection of something that might exist at a totally different scale.  

ANNE GIBBS

is an artist based in South Wales. She studied Fine Art, specialising in printmaking, and later completed an MA in Ceramics at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. She is the recipient of awards from the Oppenheim John Downes Memorial Trust, Wales Arts International, and the Arts Council of Wales, and has undertaken residencies in the USA, Scotland, and Wales. In 2023, she received the Purchase Prize at the National Eisteddfod, awarded by the National Museum Cardiff. Her work is held in public collections in Wales, the USA, and Korea.

Inspired by collecting objects, both natural and man-made, Gibbs creates small-scale abstract sculptures in coloured clay that explore playfulness and the uncanny. Her recent work investigates the interplay between organic growth, gesture, and stillness through hand-built porcelain forms. Textured surfaces echo coral, lichen, or fungal bloom, often blurring boundaries between the botanical and the bodily. Each piece emerges through a slow, intuitive process guided by touch and repetition. The resulting forms suggest quiet, ambiguous organisms, soft-bodied, animated by surface, and open to interpretation. 

For Cræftwork, the sculptures celebrate tactility, slowness, and sensitivity- inviting pause in our digital world.

LUDOVICA GIOSCIA

London-based artist Ludovica Gioscia's process-led practice reads like a diary of layered experiences and relations, using the studio as a catalyst for non-linear ecological experiments. Alongside ceramics, fabric, papier-mâché, paper, watercolour and wallpaper, she often employs unusual materials, such as cat hair, distilled water from flowers, emotions and energy. Born and raised in Rome in the eighties the layering of many architectural styles has become a definite influence in her work, as well as Memphis design. Gioscia’s practice exists somewhere at the cross road between the Electronic Baroque, Memphis and Arte Povera.

Ludovica Gioscia (b. 1977, Rome) has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including: CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels, Belgium; Museo della Figurina, Fondazione Modena Art Visivie, Modena, Italy; Palazzo da Mosto, Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy; MACRO, American Academy in Rome, Italy; The Warhol; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; The Flag Art, NY, USA; The Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain; Jerwood Space, South London Gallery, UK; MNAC, Bucharest, Romania; Comfort Moderne, Poitiers, France;  Edinburgh College of Arts, UK; Maraya Art Park, Sharjah, UAE. Recent solo shows include ‘Follicle Symphony’ at VITRINE, London (2023).

FIONA GRADY

is a site-responsive artist. Her practice recognizes the relationship between architecture, installation art and decoration; through lighting gel window installations, wall drawings, glass fusing, printmaking and watercolour studies. Her architectural interventions transform their setting by utilising light, colour, shape, surface and scale with transformational and impactful outcomes; often using traditional techniques in a contemporary setting. Her works metamorphise with the light of day, reflecting the passing of time, memory and experience to create ambient environments.

Fiona has had solo exhibitions at St John’s Churchyard, Leeds (2024); Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2022-2024); Foundry Gallery, London (2022); The Art Station, Saxmundham (2021); University of Brighton (2019); Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2018); and The Eye Sees, Arles, France (2019). She has been commissioned worldwide by organisations and institutions including: Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Canary Wharf Group, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation NHS Trust, ITV and Heals London. She was awarded the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Bursary (2019) and she has received grants from Arts Council England.

Her works are held in public and private collections across Europe, North America, and as far as New Zealand. Including Bagri Collection, Linklaters, Paul Smith Ltd, and the Tim Sayer Collection bequeathed to Hepworth, Wakefield. She lives and works in London.

GRACE HAILSTONE

Grace Hailstone (b.1988) is a printmaker whose practice centres on an emotional response to landscape rather than any form of literal representation. Drawn to the isolated, dramatic and other worldly landscape of Iceland, Grace’s prints encapsulate contrasting earthly forms and expansive skies. Her work seeks to create spaces of contemplation, where we can reflect on our connection to the natural world and our place within it, while at the same time, these open spaces contain peripheral forms, grounding the viewer.

Grace’s works are based on lived experience, but through the process of making with traditional printmaking methods, end up existing as images situated somewhere between reality and fiction. She allows the materials to direct the work after the initial idea and the elements of chance and unpredictability in various printmaking processes to guide it to its final state.

DANIEL HOSEGO

As an artist, I engage in a conceptually motivated practice that explores this perception of 'value' in a secular, post-religion-centric world and the role of the artist within that society. Drawing on the writings of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky concerning the re-evaluation of values in the face of the 'death of God' and appropriating the visual language of Albrecht Durer among other Renaissance artists; I create intricately hand-drawn compositions layered with allusions to both Renaissance and contemporary culture.

These compositions are then recreated using modern, Pop culture, mass production printing techniques to transform the work into an up-to-date discussion of artistic frustration within the fragmentation characteristic of the modern world.’

Daniel Hosego (b. 1983, Chichester, UK)

Lives and works in London, UK.

ANA KAZAROFF

is an Argentinian artist based in Croydon, holding an MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School. Her work has been exhibited in Eastside Projects, Division of Labour, Kupfer, Galería Grasa (Buenos Aires) and Neoramart (Paris), and was reviewed by The White Pube and featured in Vogue Mexico. I have been awarded a Develop Your Creative Practice grant by Arts Council England. 

Kazaroff’s work is informed by the processes of hybridisation and the mistranslations that happen when elements from one culture travel and adapt to a new one. She makes installations using paintings and sculptures made of wood, polystyrene and plaster painted to look like different surfaces. She draws connections between everyday materials, such as processed meats and stone, as they share certain qualities. They also have the added value of cultural connotations, which when seen from a foreign context after migration, might gain a new translation.

 For Craeftwork, Kazaroff present a ceramic mouth with an overflowing pool of teeth. She makes glossy, sexy visceral shapes to tap into revulsion as well as desire; how natural materials can resemble bodily matter, causing disgust and attraction simultaneously, tapping into the grotesqueness of our current times.

FIONA LONG

Fiona Long’s art focuses on consumption, desire, and sustainability. Having grown up in the New Forest and developed a love of bushcraft and foraging, her recent work has been around making and using natural inks made from gathered plants and food waste. The combination of science and the magic of nature creates inks that behave in much more unpredictable and exciting ways than manufactured ink. Long now lives in London and has degrees in Fine Art: Painting and Psychology. She has exhibited widely and has her artwork held in private and public collections in the UK and across the world.

HANNAH LUXTON

has a studio process based on a mastery of traditional painting methods and materials. Often grinding her own semi-precious and rare colours. Her grounds are raw linen and traditional gesso (chalk and hide glue), and with a variety of washes, glazes and minimal forms, Luxton creates paintings that are are sensual things, images that we perceive through our senses.

Inspired by philosophies such as Romanticism and animism, which intimates a living soul in natural phenomena, Luxton explores ways to depict nature imbued with a divine power. With pared down mark making to communicate the essence of the building blocks of the natural world, Luxton hints at a spiritual dimension beyond appearance.

Hannah Luxton (b.1986, London, UK) studied her Masters the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2010-12). In 2022 she was elected into the prestigious art collective, The London Group (est. 1913). Luxton's work has received support and recognition from The Arts Council England (2024, 2020, 2018) and The Young Masters Art Prize (2023). Her paintings are held in private collections in the UK, Iceland, the USA and Australia including the Tinie & De Hann collection. Selected UK exhibitions include Kristin Hjellegjerde (2026), The Woolwich Print Fair (2025), Velarde Gallery (2024); Benjamin Parsons x Hannah Payne (2023);The Royal Academy (Summer Exhibition 2022, 2021); Brompton Cemetery Chapel (solo, 2021), Midnight Gallery, LA USA (2018).

SASHA TISHKOV

Sasha Tishkov is a visual artist and maker of Estonian origin. Their work navigates the interplay between built and natural environments, delving into geopolitical, social, and cultural uncertainties within collective and personal theirstories. Rooted in sensitive engagement with nature, Tishkov's practice employs queer ecology as a means to challenge anthropocentric and heteronormative concepts.

Their creative process often begins long before engaging with physical materials, exploring anthropological, environmental, and more-than-human phenomena within peripheral territories. These landscapes—ranging from abandoned military islands and UN buffer zones to post-Soviet wastelands—reveal ambiguous narratives that merge artificial and natural origins, forming hybrid topographies.

Seeking to escape the confines of such dystopian realities, Tishkov create installations, sculptures and furniture that transcend boundaries, evoke fantasy, and convey poetic elements.

ASHA VAIDYANATH

Asha Vaidyanath is a London based Indian-born American artist. Words and emotions are central to her practice.  Her richly layered compositions explore the intrinsic poetry and contradiction present in the act and process of repetition. She is interested in exploring the idea of  freedom within constraint. Her interdisciplinary practice spans hand weaving, sound, photography and printmaking.  

Asha's work is currently on view at the Pallant House Gallery as part of 'Rana Begum Curates Opposing Forms'.  Recent show participations include ‘India Printmaker House,’  London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, London (2025), ‘Nothing More Was Ever Said,’ Warbling Collective, London (2024), ‘Facts Wrong, Feelings Right’, Cubitt Invites, London (2024) and ‘Rinse and Repeat,’ Hypha Studios at Sugar House Island, London (2024).