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.


Acquisitions Committee Chair: Andrew Renton, Keeper of Art at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.

Felicity Aylieff, ceramicist and Professor of Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art.

Alison Britton, potter, writer and commentator on modern and contemporary crafts. 

Matthew Burt, furniture designer-maker.

Alison Crowther, contemporary sculptor and furniture maker.

Stephen Knott, writer and researcher in craft theory and history, and is a Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston University.

Tim Parry-Williams, studio weaver and Professor of Art:Textiles at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Tamara Thornhill, Corporate Archivist at Transport for London.

Sharon Ting, Programme Director: Textiles at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Edward Wates, calligrapher and book artist, and Chair of both the Irene Wellington Educational Trust and the Commonwork Trust.

Tom Young, stone carver, letter cutter and Head of Carving at City & Guilds of London Art School.