Arts & Business Awards 2021
Laura Spring
Bold, graphic prints combined with bright colours transformed into beautifully crafted products are at the core of Laura Spring. With a passion for colour, print, pattern and process, Laura creates a covetable collection of functional homewares and accessories. Designs are transformed through print and weave into cushions, fabrics, rugs, bags and more, much of which […]
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Natalie Wood
As a designer/maker Natalie is inspired by everyday culture of use. Focusing on functional objects that play into our lives on a daily basis. Natalie specialises in bringing colour to clay, inspired minimalism and colour theory. Through her work she examines the place of craft in contemporary society and the connection between cultural identity and […]
Jenny Steele
Jenny Steele is a Scottish artist currently based in Manchester. Her practice is motivated by the restorative and uplifting qualities of coastal environments and interwar architecture. This architectural period emphasised social wellbeing, and she revives its optimism and hope through textiles, site-specific artwork, textiles, sculpture and printmaking. Jenny is simultaneously interested in exploring the fluid […]
Cecilia Stamp
Cecilia is a Glasgow based designer and maker. Inspired by abstract forms from Modernist architecture, packaging and the man-made, she creates graphic, contemporary jewellery with an understated palette. Combining traditional craft processes including vitreous enamel, resin, wax carving and silversmithing, allows Cecilia to translate these source materials into tactile, wearable objects with a focus on […]
Ruth Kirkby
Ruth Kirkby is a letterpress printer living and working in Glasgow using traditional methods of printing with metal and wood type but also experimenting with new techniques within the process. She is particularly interested in analysing the way we experience letterforms and society’s relationship to the written word throughout the history of typography. Alongside her […]
Tessa MacKenzie
Tessa MacKenzie is a glazier and illustrator based in Glasgow. She is interested in research-led projects, material focus in the built environment and storytelling. Her practice centres around how stained glass can enhance the way we experience architecture and the role it has to play in telling the stories of people that occupy a space. […]
Maiko Tsutsumi
Maiko Tsutsumi’s creative practice explores the potential of inherent material qualities and the power and the nature of human skills and ingenuity that reconfigure such qualities to create affective quality. Inspired by the power of ethnological objects, folk objects and tales, and ancient architectural details that speak of the nature of humanity, she engages with […]
Winter & Spring 2021 Independently-Funded Residencies
Funded Residencies 2021
Dawn Youll
Dawn Youll’s ceramic practice is informed by the exploration of a personal landscape and the narratives that this can evoke. Her work is underpinned by a fascination with the routine of daily life, and over time this has been revised and refined so that the urban environment, the studio, the domestic setting and the making […]