Craftspace – Developing people, ideas and opportunities through contemporary craft

Developing people, ideas and opportunities through contemporary craft

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.

Shelanu Volunteer Opportunity

We’re inviting volunteer applications to help support and co-ordinate Shelanu, a craft collective with and for migrant and refugee women. Apply by 5pm, Monday 29 June.

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.

Off-Loom Weaving w Sarah-May Johnson - Option 2 - Photo by Hayley Salter

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Where will your creativity take you?

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Explore: Making for Change

Exploring climate change with young Deaf people.

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.

Alex, the leader of Smashing Metal, standing in the outdoor metalworking workshop next to the forge, with the anvil, the clamp table and the sign behind him. He is smiling and looking at the camera.

Watch: Stories of Making & Migration

From everyday Midlands makers influenced by migration.

Taylor and Nilupa sitting in Nilupa's studio, looking down, working on a small-scale handheld loom, weaving strips of fabric.

Watch: Crafting Pathways

Follow young people as they explore careers in craft.

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.

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Apply: Shelanu Volunteer

Support Shelanu: Women’s Craft Collective. Application deadline: 5pm, Monday 29 June.

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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