Materials, experimentation and craft: an open call for CSM staff and student work in the Lethaby Gallery

Deadline: Tuesday 16 December 2025

The next Lethaby Gallery exhibition, curated by a group of students led by Jin Liang (BA Fashion Design: Communication), will take place from February-May 2026. The exhibition aims to situate Central Saint Martins within global conversations on materials and making, recognising that craft and experimental processes are inextricable from urgent political and environmental realities.

We are looking for existing work by students, graduates and staff from Central Saint Martins whose work is grounded in a hands-on relationship with materials - aiming to celebrate projects centred around material origin, culture, history and responsibility.

The exhibition hopes to reflect ecological wisdom, celebrating how generational knowledge is preserved and transformed through means of language, stories and craft. Becoming an intermediary space for the public to engage with CSM's creativity, the gallery will showcase work from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, from that which focuses on the preservation of ancestral techniques to those pushing inherited knowledge into the future through emerging technologies.

Deadline: Tuesday 16 December 2025, 12pm.

To apply, please fill out this form.