Contemporary Applied Arts [CAA]

Contemporary Applied Arts, often called CAA, is London’s original multi-disciplinary applied arts gallery. For more than 70 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. Our member makers’ talent and artistic excellence is celebrated and flourishes through the activities of CAA, which include sales of makers’ work; innovative exhibitions; securing significant commissions for our maker members; facilitating acquisitions by major public and private collections; and running meaningful education, outreach and public participation programmes. CAA does not receive any regular funding. We have no shareholders and all earned income is reinvested in the gallery and our charitable activities. Respected by our peers, our members and others working in the field and beyond, CAA has been influential and remained a beacon of excellence and integrity in the arts for seven decades.