Human Touch Wins Big With the 2026 Loewe Craft Prize

Alexandra Cunningham Cameron | Cultured | 14th May 2026

One writer, reviewing the Loewe Craft Prize, refers to the “tension” between craft and art. An alternative view is that the works on display emphasise, yet again, that craft occupies a unique aesthetic space. Fine craft, if one can call it that, is not about practical use but about materials, their uses and limits, and the techniques needed to create something. It’s “another way of thinking about objects”. Amidst anxieties about losing human invention a finalist observes reassuringly “we think through our hands”.