Welcome!

Aimee Mackay

Aimee is a jeweller inspired by nature, being outside and reading books about wildlife and plants. She takes joy in the small details; weeds and moss, lichen and tiny insects.

In a world where nature is slowly disappearing Aimee is keen to bring awareness to the more unusual creatures and plants that are at risk of being lost if we continue to do nothing.

Alice Dudgeon

Alice’s work is characterised by lightweight, intricate, wooden structures. 

Selecting labour-intensive and repetitive processes, she celebrates the irregularity of the natural material whilst evidencing the hand.

Andrew Strangeway

Inspired by conversations with guild members, Clockmaker Andrew has been experimenting with alternative methods for forming rings that avoid the use of silver solder. He has explored using fixing methods traditional to the craft of clockmaking, in particular mimicking the way that a clock’s pillars are taper-pinned to the plate. Working with this restriction has opened a new creative direction for him.

Belinda Coyne

Belinda, a Brighton-based Designer, intricately weaves her lived experiences, environmental concerns, and research of specific landscapes into her designs. Her work reflects a profound connection to nature, raising awareness and appreciation for our surroundings. Her practice explores these ideas using kiln-fired vitreous enamel applied to low carbon steel panels which are abraded, enamelled and refired multiple times resulting in hidden narratives layered amongst a poetic intuitive response.

Caitlin Maxwell Hughan

Caitlin is a designer focused on developing "farm to fibre" relationships between agriculture, manufacturing, and design. With a background in textiles, specializing in knit design, Caitlin is currently pursuing yarn design as an area of great potential across both sports performance and aesthetics, she sees yarn design as an opportunity for designers to take a more collaborative approach within the supply chain, helping designers to work with function, colour and pattern from the fibre up.

Emma Sheridan

Emma is a sculptor and painter who lives and works in London. Drawing is at the foundation of her practice and serves as a thread that runs through her commissioned and personal works of sculpture and painting. She has produced works of architectural stone work for new and restoration projects, works of public art and a presentation of works for solo exhibition (paintings shown at Huset for Kunst og Design in Denmark).

Francesca Miotti

Francesca is a London-based artist who embraces hand-weaving as her main medium, being drawn by its connection to women’s domesticity and notions of self-sufficiency. By removing weaving from its inherent functionality, she aims to investigate the woven structures’ ability to tell stories, and create a world of its own.

Isabel Fletcher

Isabel is a textile artist exploring the way overlooked production offcuts act as portals into the craft of their industry. Isabel explores material transformation from 2D to 3D, using stitch and manipulation to reveal abstract sculptural forms which prompt imagination. In reframing these offcuts, she aims to increase empathy for possessions and encourage a reduction in consumption and waste.

Joanne Lamb

Joanne Lamb is an Irish artist and maker based in London. She has a long history of working with woven textiles, and is currently exploring her practice off the loom. Her artistic interests are grounded in an appreciation of the natural world and the handcrafted, experimenting with basketry, natural dyes and other hand skills to create delicate, expressive vessels which have been inspired by her impressions and memories of the landscape.

Jo Grogan

Jo is a Liverpool born, London-based artist. Her practice explores the intersection of craftsmanship and nature through wood carving. Her work interprets historical themes, reflecting on social dynamics, traditional hand skills and the role of women, while also challenging notions of taste, nostalgia, and humour. 

Kendall Clarke

Kendall is a textile artist with an interest in paper as a material, and in exploring the potential of paper yarns. She uses painting, mark-making and erasure during the process of weaving to produce layered pieces that explore fragility and strength. She often uses transparency, loose floating threads and apertures – hinting at potential unravelling or collapse.  

Liaqat Rasul

Liaqat Rasul is a Gay Dyslexic Welsh Pakistani artist based in London. He was born in Feb 1974 in Wrexham, North Wales. Liaqat studied fashion, and spent a year in industry. Liberty’s in Regent Street, London, bought his graduating collection, and he ran the business Ghulam Sakina for ten years, creating beautiful women’s clothing before diversifying into 2D and 3D collage and sculpture. In particular, his mobile faces have become a signature series in his art practice. The collage works are mental health stories, a visual thought process inspired by multiculturality.

Maddy Barnett

Maddy has been strongly influenced by her Grandad’s profession as a Master Butcher.

By slicing and printing kidneys onto fabric, she reveals the delicate structure of the organs. She highlights the formation by combining 3D printed porcelain, drawing focus to the interwoven complexities. As these objects are worn on the body, the wearer becomes aware of their own anatomy and the vulnerability of their internal being.

Marie Tricaud

Marie is a London-based designer and ceramicist. She combines thrown and hand-built stoneware shapes into sculptural ware and vases. Her work explores how complex volumes emerge from the repetition of elementary units or gestures, and plays with the themes of patterns, balance and perception.

Nicholas Topping

Nicholas is an Architectural Assistant whose work in this exhibition shows a proposal for a new memorial remembering the Muslim soldiers who served Great Britain in the First and Second World Wars.
The architectural inspiration is a minaret or memorial column, a familiar feature in Islamic nations. Nicholas is particularly interested in the Mughal architecture of Pakistan and Northwest India where many of the soldiers came from.

Rae Holden

Rae is a letterpress printer based in Worcestershire, who specialises in printed books and prints. Within this practice she also produces wood engravings, lino print illustrations and book binding. Rae is currently working on establishing a private press to publish works by female writers and provide a platform for other female printers and printmakers.

Rebecca Gray

Rebecca makes unique, innovative handcrafted hats and headpieces. She has a theatrical, artistic and science background and has always been fascinated by mixed media and the process of turning something flat into breath-taking 3D forms. For theatre, characterisation forms an important part of the design process. Inspired by the theatrical side of Millinery, Rebecca loves burlesque and Vintage Hollywood styles, as well as the aesthetics of the Circus, Tim Burton style Fairy-tales, pop-up art and old movies. Her headpieces are therefore more dramatic in style, expressive and with a story, but still perfectly wearable. 

Ruth Jenkins

Ruth is a yarn spinner and textile artist who runs her own business teaching others to spin. Sustainability is at the heart of Ruth’s practice and she focuses on fibres that are grown in the UK and materials that would have otherwise gone to waste. Ruth is working to create textiles that are traceable from farm to fabric and eventually wants everything she makes to be part of a regenerative soil to soil system.

Sofia Karakatsanis

Sofia is a sculptural furniture maker based in the West Midlands. She grew up surrounded by makers; stained glass artists, carpenters, metal workers. This lifelong exposure to craft fostered a strong fascination with making that has led to her own practice in wood.

Sophie Lloyd

Sophie’s primary medium is sculpture, in which she manipulates sugar, particularly fondant icing, to explore how we consume and how we are consumed in turn. Her works resemble stained glass windows, with the lead caming holding the pieces together. Her sculptures tend to be small in size and reference fairground caricatures and renaissance sugar sculptures. Lloyd creates pieces that are tactile and bodily and seem to be aware of their own deterioration.

Suvrita Kothari

Suvrita is a textile designer who works in weave and print. Her work is often themed around architecture and history, and explores the rich cultural heritage of India and its amalgamation of tradition and and modernity. Suvrita believes the that the back bone of a good piece is the story through which it has transformed so focuses heavily on on research and experimentation.

Xanthe Maggs

Xanthe is a potter and teacher. She makes her work mostly on the potter’s wheel, experimenting with spontaneity through form and mark making. Xanthe also facilitates educational and activist clay workshops, exploring the role of creativity in fostering action and building community.