CRAFT Festival 2026: Bovey Tracey
Mill Marsh Park, Bovey Tracey
12 - 14 June 2026
Our friends, the Craft Festival, are back in Bovey Tracey Friday 12th - Sunday 14th June 2026.
Alongside over 200 Exhibitors, there are many exciting things taking place over the weekend:
MAKE Southwest at the CRAFT Festival!
Stand MM15
We are happy to announce that we will have a designated tent, as per usual, at the CRAFT Festival. This year our tent will hold 3 demos per day. See the maker demo schedule below.
Don’t forget to pop over to our Riverside Mill (directly opposite the entrance to Mill Marsh Park), over the weekend too as we will have 3 amazing craft exhibitions and lots of beautiful items for sale. For the CRAFT Festival weekend we will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10am - 5pm.
RODNEY’S Café at MAKE Southwest, located on our first floor, will be open all weekend too - a perfect place to relax and refuel if the hustle and bustle of the Craft Festival gets too much. All homemade onsite using locally sourced ingredients, RODNEY’S has a range of cakes, light bites, lunches and beverages to choose from. It is very dog-friendly and has a lovely, sunny rooftop terrace.
Friday 12th June
Rosemary Jacks | Ceramics
MAKE Southwest Maker Member
Rosemary has been potting since the mid 1990s, and makes wheel thrown and slab built, earthenware pottery.
Drawing on early English delftware and traditional European folk art for inspiration, she takes reference from the natural world around her home, producing pieces which are both fun and functional.
Studio Tuft | Textiles
MAKE Southwest Maker Member
Jessie James handmakes tufted rugs using sustainably sourced rug wools. Each rug is one of a kind and totally unique.
“I like to think of the rugs as functional art for the floor”.
Jessie tufts rugs from her home studio, every rug is inspired by different things from going to the beach, flowers growing in the garden and colour palettes from sunsets. These tufted rugs are made to bring joy into your home and add a statement to your floor.
Lisa Wisdom | Mixed Media
Pledged Green Maker & MAKE Southwest Maker Member
Based in the heart of the post industrial granite quarrying landscape of West Cornwall, artist blacksmith Lisa Wisdom uses carefully selected fragments of found metal and corrugated roofing sheet to forge unique metal artworks.
The riveted layers of rusty metal are worked into using charcoals and pigments to pull out the ghosts of cottages and walls and clouds to form these evocative landscapes.
Saturday 13th June
Nix Hawkins | Ceramics
MAKE Southwest Maker Member
For Nix, there is something quite amazing about using her hands, a few simple tools and heat to transform a humble lump of mud into a beautiful yet useful object that will last for years. Her ceramics are truly individual from the subtle marks and shapes made by her hand to organic earthy glaze finishes from traditional wood-firing techniques.
Her work is a reflection of the connection she feels to the earth beneath her feet, rooted in a rural farm upbringing. From the materials she uses to the classic, down-to-earth designs that bring the clay’s character to life. Most of all, Nix loves making pots that have purpose and enrich the everyday.
Laura Kriefman | Glass
MAKE Southwest Maker Member
Laura loves combining her exceptional technical delivery with a contemporary visual style that is playful, colourful and vivid. She works in glass using leaded stained glass, copper foil, traditional glass painting and glass casting techniques. Her work ranges between door and window sets to beautiful ornaments, freestanding artworks and custom commissions.
In 2024 Laura won the Amanda Moriarty Memorial Prize, and was featured in Devon Life Magazine and Greenhill Arts Biennale. In 2025 she was longlisted for the Ruth Borchard Portrait Award and her work was featured at the International Biennale of Glass, Bulgaria 2025 and chosen for their permanent collection. Laura was also accepted as a full member at MAKE Southwest, with work on sale at Thelma Hubert Gallery, and White Sails Gallery. In 2026, Laura’s work has been selected for the UK International Glass Biennale; It's All In The Technique (World of Glass St Helen); and Endangered Crafts: Stourbridge Glass Museum.
Jane Deane | Textiles
Pledged Green Maker & MAKE Southwest Maker Member
Jane is a natural dyer, who also hand spins and weaves using mainly natural fibres, with environmental concerns being a priority for her. She has been practicing for 40 years and during that time has taught her skills internationally and throughout the UK.
Sunday 14th June
Emma Mogridge | Jewellery
MAKE Southwest Maker Member
Emma is a jewellery designer-maker based in her home county of Devon. Her jewellery is inspired by the coastline, the perpetual motion of waves and the shimmering of light over water. Emma developed her unique ‘Ocean Facets’ technique to capture mesmerising light reflections over the sea. Her signature seascapes are hand-crafted in precious metals using specialist techniques and hand-made tools at her Devon workshop.
Emma loves to hand-craft gold and silver into fluid forms and enjoys working with specially selected gemstones to capture the spirit of the ocean in every creation.
Anne Farag | Jewellery
MAKE Southwest Maker Member
Anne’s main focus is to design and create and bring an aesthetic sensibility to all her jewellery.
She is inspired by many things; exhibitions, nature, architectural detail across many cultures - ancient and modern - and she likes to think her mixed parentage of Egyptian and Swedish has some influence as well.
Anne likes experimenting and has recently been adding Keum Boo gold detail to some of her jewellery.
Alexei Sawyer | Wood
Pledged Green Maker & MAKE Southwest Maker Member
Alexei Sawyer is a self-taught maker based in Gloucestershire who creates one-off sculptural vessels and bowls from locally and sustainably sourced hardwoods - salvaged from disease or responsible woodland management
His practice centres on the once-turned method, allowing the wood to move and respond naturally as it dries, with many pieces turned to thin, delicate walls. Rather than resisting the irregularities of the material, Alexei embraces cracks, warping and natural growth marks as part of each piece's evolving character - an approach rooted in the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, finding beauty in imperfection.
Our Associate Maker Members at the StartUp Tent
Stand D18
Located in the Craft Festival’s StartUp tent you’ll find four of our Associate Maker Members.
MAKE Southwest Kids’ Tent Activities
FRIDAY 12 JUNE:
SATURDAY 13 JUNE:
SUNDAY 14 JUNE:
Corn Dolly Making
Demo & Have a Go - Throw a Pot!
Weave a Willow Fish
Exhibitions at MAKE Southwest during the Craft Festival
Photo credit: Nigel Dutt
Staying Alive
Endangered crafts of the Southwest of England, co-curated by Heritage Crafts
This exhibition shines a light on some of the Southwest’s most endangered crafts. Fourteen master makers share their skills, tools, and stories, showing how traditions shaped by the region’s land and sea still have relevance and beauty today. From boatbuilding and ropemaking to hedging, basketmaking, and tanning, these crafts connect past and present, keeping centuries of knowledge alive in the modern world.
2 May - 4 July | Jubilee Gallery | Learn More
Remnants
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Arts University Plymouth
Work by 2nd Year BA (Hons) Textile Design at Arts University Plymouth. This exhibition presents a body of textile works developed in response to artefacts from the collections of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter. Each piece explores the historical narratives, material qualities, and cultural significance embedded within these objects, transforming archival research into contemporary textile practice.
28 March - 20 June | Riverside Gallery | Learn More
Craft Festival Ticket Prices
Please book in advance, tickets on the door will be very limited.
Per Day
Advance: Adult £10
On the Door: Adult £12
Weekend Super Saver Ticket
Advance: Adult £19
On the Door: Adult £21
Under 18s FREE (under 18s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).
Opening Times:
Friday - Sunday, 10am - 5pm
(Last entry 30 minutes before the end time)
Alternatively, you can buy tickets from MAKE Southwest in person (cash), on behalf of the CRAFT Festival. Tickets cannot be posted.
Volunteer at the CRAFT Festival
There are many opportunities to volunteer at the CRAFT Festival, such as selling tickets at the box office, helping set up the event and assisting with the children’s activities tent.
For full information and how to apply to be a volunteer, please visit the CRAFT Festival’s website.
The Craft Festival is a separate organisation and not run by MAKE Southwest.