Emma Woffenden
http://www.emmawoffenden.com/

Emma Woffenden is a mixed media sculptor who trained extensively in glass making techniques. She currently lives and works in London and rural France.

Anna Barlow
http://s394557583.websitehome.co.uk/

I am fascinated by the way we eat food, especially by the rituals around celebrational or indulgent treats that have developed; the way they are assembled, displayed and then eaten. I am also interested in how food tells a story of the people and place it’s in. A full stand of ice creams could suggest a hot day or treats abandoned for some mysterious reason.

James Maskrey
https://scottish-gallery.co.uk/artist/james_maskrey

James Maskrey started working with glass in 1990. He originally trained as an apprentice and subsequently worked for 7 years at a hot glass studio in Dorset. In 1997 he embarked on a three dimensional design degree in glass at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey. After graduating in 2000 he was appointed as Artist in Residence at the University. In 2001 James joined the Glass and Ceramics department at The University of Sunderland and in 2002 he started his Masters in glass at the University, graduating in 2004. James continues to work for the University.

“I use predominantly hot glass to create factual and imagined objects that often take the form of individual pieces or collections of curiosities. Inspiration comes from many sources. Personal experiences, peculiar facts, elaborate hoaxes and voyages of discovery, all help to inform whilst a passion for both traditional craft skills and innovative new technologies plays an important part in the execution of the work.” James Maskrey.

Neil Brownsword
https://thingnessofthings.wordpress.com/contributors-2/neil-brownsword/

Neil Brownsword is an artist, senior lecturer and researcher at Buckinghamshire New University. His PhD thesis (completed in 2006) combined historical and archaeological research on ceramic production in North Staffordshire from the eighteenth century to the present; the film archiving of craft skills in the industry today; and the creation of a body of artwork in response to this research. The resultant ‘narrative’ sheds light upon Britain’s contemporary “post-industrial” experience as well as its industrial past.

Luke Jerram
https://www.lukejerram.com/

Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Living in the UK but working internationally for 20 years, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the globe. Jerram has a set of different narratives that make up his practice which are developing in parallel with one another. He is known worldwide for his large scale public artworks.

Annie Catrell
https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/annie-cattrell/

Annie Cattrell is a Tutor in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art, where she has been a tutor since 2000. Cattrell has lectured in many art colleges including Edinburgh School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art, University University of Ulster and Australian National University in Canberra. Cattrell exhibits widely both nationally and internationally and has undertaken art commissions, including recently at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Cattrell was born in Glasgow and studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and the University of Ulster, and Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art. Cattrell is Reader in Fine Art and Research Group Leader in Fine Art and Photography at De Montfort University. Since 2014 she has been Lead Artist for the New Museum Site at Cambridge University a ten year major redevelopment. Recently she completed a large scale sculpture commission called Resounding for the new award winning John Henry Brookes building designed by Design Engine for Oxford Brookes University.

Julian Stair
http://www.julianstair.com/

Julian Stair is one of the UK’s leading potters. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and the RCA. He has exhibited internationally and has work in 30 public collections (V&A Museum, British Museum, American Museum of Art & Design, New York, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge). Recent solo exhibitions include Quietus: The Vessel, Death and the Human Body, (mima, NMW Cardiff, Winchester Cathedral, Somerset House, London 2012-14, Manchester Cathedral 2016); and Quotidian (Corvi-Mora Gallery, London 2014-15). Exhibitions in 2016 include Rosemarie Jäger Gallery, Hochheim, Frankfurt, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, Frieze Art Fair and Oxford Ceramics Gallery.

Clare Morgan
http://www.claire-morgan.co.uk/home

Claire Morgan’s fragile hanging installations reflect her interest in natural processes and organic materials. In her works, the young artist (b. 1980 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) engages with the elemental conditions of man in his habitat and reveals the impossibility of grasping the complexity of life and death: “Exploring the physicality of animals, death, and illusions of permanence in the work is my way of trying to come to terms with these things myself.” Elegance and beauty, but also senselessness and horror, are present in her installations and drawings. Simultaneously poetic and vexing, they express the ambivalence of life. (© Galerie Karsten Greve Köln, Paris, St Moritz).

Dickson & Sarmiento
http://glasstress.org/my-product/erin-dickson-jeffrey-sarmiento/#1482314626436-0d1da5c7-e28ae397-3956

Erin Dickson, born in South Shields, England, and Jeffrey Sarmiento, born in Chicago, are two artists based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Both are known for their use of glass and share a fascination with cultural and emotional connections to architecture and explore their experience of space from individual perspectives.

In Emotional Leak , they produced the physical manifestation of a slowly leaking roof. Inspired by water and realized in glass, the resulting form is a black monolithic sculpture, resembling a digital gothic architectural model.

Blond and Bieber
https://www.blondandbieber.com/

Essi Johanna Glomb (1989) and Rasa Weber (1989) are Blond & Bieber, a Berlin-based design studio.

Blond & Bieber is a cooperation which meets on the border between textile- and productdesign. By means of concept, experiment and a strong visual approach the duo (though educated as product-developers) would always choose for a narrative approach to design over a purely practical understanding of production. Blond & Bieber are searching for subtile expressions of modern rituals and processes. Their research can be understood as a tightly woven mesh, which lays the foundation to all their projects. Textile is used as the embodiment of a versatile material which can be seen as a key to their story-telling.

Blond & Bieber develop concepts, products and processes.

Mine Kafon
https://minekafon.org/index.php/history/

The brothers behind the Mine Kafon project, Massoud and Mahmud Hassani, grew up on the edge of Kabul, in a little town called Qasaba. Living in a house that backed onto an active minefield, they experienced the horrors of landmines from an early age. During the advent of the Afghan Civil War, the brothers moved more than 40 times through different countries, eventually settling in the Netherlands. Having been forced to invent and create their own objects and toys during a childhood so affected by landmines and remnants of war, Massoud then went on to pursue a career in Industrial Design. Inspired from humanitarian beliefs, nature and the wind powered toys the brothers grew up making, the ‘Mine Kafon’, a wind-powered art piece, was realised in 2011 as both a global mine awareness campaign and a legitimate mine-clearing device.

Paul Scott
http://cumbrianblues.com/

Paul Scott is a Cumbrian based artist with a diverse practice and an international reputation.

Creating individual pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft and design, he is well known for research into printed vitreous surfaces, as well as his characteristic blue and white artworks in glazed ceramic. Scott’s artworks can be found in public collections around the globe