Soizig Carey is a designer maker based in Glasgow, specialising in contemporary handmade jewellery and objects. Soizig’s jewellery practice is rooted in slow design and making, and she is conscious of the impact her work has on people and the environment. Using both ancient and new making processes, she is drawn instead towards creating modernist […]
Katie Schwab is an artist working predominantly with textiles. Her artworks are stitched, woven, tufted and knitted. These processes also inform her sculptures, prints and installation works. Her practice draws on historic textiles to reflect on moments of personal and social turbulence. Developed through research in archives, community or family settings, her work is shaped […]
Richard McVetis is an artist whose practice is inspired by time, geology, and cosmology, explored through textile-based work—particularly hand embroidery, which he describes as ‘rendering with stitch’. His work takes the form of meticulously stitched two- and three-dimensional drawings, shifting between small-scale sculptures and large installations. These pieces visually articulate the passage of time, spatial […]
Mohamed Tonsy is an Egyptian writer, ceramicist and bookseller at Lighthouse Bookshop. Formerly an architect and triathlete representing the Egyptian Triathlon Federation, Tonsy completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Their writing has appeared in Mizna, Epoch Press, won a Quarterly John Byrne Award and was Shortlisted for MFest’s 2021 Short […]
Sayan Chanda reimagines votive objects, folk divinities, and mythic narratives as hybrid, ambiguous forms through the lens of identity, gender perception, and postcolonial theory. Working intuitively with fibre and clay through weaving, stitching, quilting, dyeing, and hand-building, he makes work that occupies a speculative landscape untethered from place, culture, and period. He’s interested in the […]