London Craft Week 2025: Unanchored Crafting

Artist list

Özlem Böge, Rui Gao, Pauline Han, Yanan He, Siqi Huang, Weixin Huang, Daye Kim, Ariel Li, Xinyu Lin, Yujie Liu, Yang Lu, Xinyu Meng, TaJo Studio, Deniz Turan, Shaoyu Wang, Wanyan Wu, Caiyang Yin, Yuanyuan Yu, Wanqian Zhang, Youyang Zhao, Tianhui Zheng, Chenxi Zhou, Weihang Zhu, qìqíqǐqì Studio

Unanchored Crafting is delighted to collaborate with 20 international artists and the Jewellery & Metal Studio at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, to present their remarkable works during the 2025 London Craft Week. Together, they explore new contexts for craft in an era of cultural fluidity.

The exhibition features metalwork, lacquer, enamel, CNC machining, and more, intertwined with visual symbols from diverse disciplines, crossing time and space. With acute sensitivity, the artists trace the fractures and reconstructions of materiality, and through deeply personal practices, respond to shifting notions of identity, power, and perception.
Through decoding memory, material, and emotion, a cultural landscape both unfamiliar and alluring takes shape.
Here, craft becomes a language of exploration—an imaginative response to an uncertain world.


Curator: Xuan Xu, Yating Xie
Organizer: Alsolike Gallery
Academic Support: Jewellery and Metal Studio, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University
Curatorial Coordinator: Wanqian Zhang
Programme Director: Yiru Zhang