Contemporary Applied Arts

Contemporary Applied Arts is London’s original multi-disciplinary applied arts gallery. For more than 75 years, we have championed and promoted only the very best of British craft. Our sole aims are to advocate for the applied arts and to campaign for and foster quality and innovation in this field.

We are a registered charity and a membership organisation with more than two hundred leading British-based craft-maker artists working in ceramics, furniture, glass, jewellery, metal, paper, textiles and wood. We view this inter-disciplinary approach as a harmonious dialogue between materials, techniques and diverse approaches to making. Selected maker members are craft professionals and are rigorously chosen by a panel of their peers. Belonging to CAA is seen as a kite mark of excellence.