Discover our collections during London Craft Week & Mayfair Art Weekend
It's been almost 1 month since we opened our doors at the Burlington Arcade in Mayfair. It's been such a joy to meet many of you again, thank you so much for your continued support.
This October, we are proud to announce our partnerships with London Craft Week & Mayfair Art Weekend. To celebrate these events, we have re-curated the space and added more collections for you to view and buy.
Read on to learn more how to attend these events and find out where you'll be able to view other Future Icons' across town for London Craft Week 2020.
We are super thrilled to be an official partner again for London Craft Week. For the 2020 edition, we invite you to view collections from 15 of our clients across 2 floors of our Burlington Arcade boutique. Comprised of home accessories, jewellery, furniture and wall-based artworks, our makers have created collections from wood, metal, ceramics, textiles and leather.
Meet the Maker:
Throughout London Craft Week (30 September - 10 October), Future Icons welcomes visitors to pre book private appointments to meet our artists and makers on show. Within this 1-hour appointment, visitors will learn more about how the artworks have been crafted, the inspirations for the collections as well as a chance to handle works and samples.
Collections on show from:
Claire Coles // Jo Davies MA RCA // Judy McKenzie MA RCA // Kate Lewis MA RCA // Katja Angeli MFA RCA // Kei Tominaga MA // Kevin Stamper // Laurent Peacock // Leo Crane MA // Louise Heighes MA // Pipet Design // Rebecca Knott // RHMB // Unit 3 // Zeinhab Harding
London Craft Week
30 September - 10 October 2020
Burlington Arcade
Unit 70, 51 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 0QJ
Public opening times
11am - 6pm daily
Please note Future Icons Presents continues until 30 October 2020. Please visit our website for opening times outside events.
To book a private appointment with our makers, please contact Future Icons’ Founder: Louisa Pacifico on +44 (0) 7838 102 031 or via email: louisa@futureicons.co.uk
Click here to view our blog post on what to see during London Craft Week 2020
For the first time, we are partnering with Mayfair Art Weekend. An annual celebration of the world’s internationally renowned gallery district.
This year, Mayfair Art Weekend is launching a new and extended programme of events throughout October, introducing: the Mayfair Sculpture Trail in partnership with Art in Mayfair 1 – 31 October; a curated artists’ moving image screening, the May Fair Showreel on Sunday 4 October, and the inaugural Mayfair Gallery Publication Award to be announced at the end of October.
For this event, our wall based artists include Future Icons; Katja Angeli MFA RCA, Kate Lewis MA RCA of the News Pressed, Leo Crane MA, Louise Heighes MA and Claire Coles. All artists will be presenting livable framed works which incorporate their traditional craft practice.
Please click on the sample artworks below to discover more about each artist.
Mayfair Art Weekend
2-4 October 2020
Burlington Arcade
Unit 70, 51 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 0QJ
Public opening times
11am - 7pm daily
Please note Future Icons Presents continues until 30 October 2020. Please visit our website for opening times outside events.
Can't attend? We've uploaded the available art works on our Smartify App.
Click here to download the app and search for Future Icons.
Where to find other Future Icons during London Craft Week
Explore a combination of traditional hand embroidery techniques together with Richard McVetis in this two-hour online workshop from STORE STORE at The Barbican, part of London Craft Week 2020.
During this online embroidery workshop you'll explore a combination of traditional hand embroidery techniques together with Richard McVetis - one of the leading contemporary hand embroidery artists in the UK today. You will explore the slowness and rhythms of hand stitching; the versatility and strengths of embroidery for drawing and mark-making; and the pleasure in having time to make. Richard will be demonstrating simple hand embroidery techniques, no knowledge of embroidery techniques are needed.
STORE STORE is an innovative London based community project which have teamed up with the Barbican to organise a series of online individual artistic workshops. Designed to explore new materials and processes, every day a different artist, architect or designer is invited to teach a new craft.
Click here to book tickets
Sadly, Future Icon Christabel Balfour is unable to open her studio for London Craft Week 2020. Christabel is however on show at Hauser & Wirth in Somerset. Full details about their current exhibition Hand & Land can be found here.