The Crafts Study Centre continues to add to its object and archive collections through donations, bequests and purchases. All potential additions to the collection are reviewed by the Centre’s Acquisitions Committee, which meets approximately twice a year, and are considered against the collecting priorities set out in the Collections Development Policy.

Acquisition highlights November 2022-October 2023

Works by Edmund de Waal: A group of seven objects largely representing earlier moments in de Waal’s career. Includes a stoneware bowl from 1982 and porcelain works from the 1980s and 1990s, and winter pot C10, an unglazed porcelain vessel made in 2020.

David Ward photographic archive: Photographs largely from the 1980s of work and exhibitions of craftspeople, including photographs that were used for the 1981 Maker’s Eye catalogue.

Works by Richard Batterham: A range of pieces, including works from the Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition and works from his own collection, including a lidded pot by Shoji Hamada, a pot by Ladi Kwali, one of his own large dishes, and accompanying photographs.

Edward Wates: A calligraphic transcription of an edited version of The Manipulation of Skill and the Outer Limits of Function by Alison Britton in the form of a 32-page manuscript book.

Felicity Aylieff: A round blue pot made by the artist in Jingdezhen.

Irene Wellington manuscript book: Gifted the the CSC by The Society for Italic Handwriting. Manuscript was loaned in 1985 for the Eton and Harrow handwriting competition.