ABOUT

London's original applied arts gallery, since 1948

Contemporary Applied Arts, often called CAA, 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 applied arts. 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 artists working in ceramics, furniture, glass, jewellery, metal, paper, textiles and wood. We view this interdisciplinary approach as a harmonious dialogue between materials, techniques and diverse approaches to making. Selected maker members 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.

Our Trustees

CAA is a registered charity, governed by a board of trustees. The board currently includes six Trustees, two of whom are CAA maker members.
 

Marlene McKibbin

Maker Trustee

Dame Janet Paraskeva

Trustee

Helen Yardley

Maker Trustee

Lucy Thompson

Trustee

David Eton
Trustee, Treasurer