Muriel Uribe creates a multifaceted exploration of language and imagination in soft, textile forms.

Step into the captivating world of ceramic artist Ken Adams, where clay undergoes a mesmerising transformation, echoing the wonders of the underwater realm.

Delve into the captivating world of David JP Hooker's studio, where the artistic fusion of ceramics and sculpture emanates a distinctive aesthetic, elevating the ordinary to the extraordinary.

Step with us into the elegant realm of Atelier Malak, where contemporary furniture comes to life with tall, graceful lines and poetic interplays of materials.

Klumpar & Pavlik Studio create natural harmony in glass.

Get to know the craftswoman behind the porcelain magic and the dance between the material and the master.

Step into the world of glass artist Justyna Ratasiewicz, where vibrant colours and exquisite craftsmanship converge to evoke a symphony of emotions in every piece.

Delve into the transformative journey of Chilean-born sculptor Cristian Diez-Sanchez as his evocative creations breathe life into raw materials.

From the big apple to London to the London Design Festival! That’s right, the multi-talented artist and designer Patrick Nash is bringing his exquisite neon artworks to this year's London Design Festival and we cannot be more thrilled about it.

We recently caught up with Baiba Dzenite to learn more about how she discovered her passion for glass, her upcoming events, and how she feels about being part of Cluster. Read more to discover what she shared.

Austeya Platukyte uses her research to explore alternative material futures and question how natural fibres can be used as more sustainable alternatives to synthetic ones. Amanda Selinder also explores natural fibres in her design work. She works with living organisms that effect the materials in different ways, leaving their mark in coloured patterns or imprints.

Artist/musician Dan Ghenacia has recreated the Dream Machine for the 21st century. The result is the Alpha Wave Experience, a multi-dimensional sensory experience, transporting audiences deep within their consciousness to a space where dreams and reality collide.

Artist and jewellery designer Caio Marcolini creates work that sits between the material and ethereal world. His practice is inspired by capturing movement, as he makes each piece there is a point where the work begins to almost shape and form itself. Also inspired by the idea of creating pieces that have a life of their own, Italian studio High Society focuses on creating plant-based lighting and furniture using upcycled post-industrial waste.

Esna Su creates evocative handcrafted work made from leather cord. Aiming to “subtly explores the issues of identity and memory” in relationship to political instability. Alice Shield’s explorations in porcelain act as documentation of the urban landscape. Using repeated mark making, it is Shield’s intention that the lines and detailed sections be read as “walkways that are drawn and translated from memory”.

Glass artists Emma Baker and Bethany Wood capture movement and emotion in their pieces. Baker endeavours to use glass as a canvas to celebrate memories and her pieces aim to communicate the emotions that she feels while designing and making. Wood’s pieces are molten landscapes that seem frozen in a moment of time. They have a performative quality to them that captures a sense of rhythm and feeling of adrenaline rush. 

Sogon Kim aims to capture the spirit of the alchemist in her work. She investigates different material behaviours and reactions to create pieces that are unique and thought provoking. Barbara Kenneally is also fascinated by the possibilities of glass as a material, particularly its ability to transform depending on how light plays through it and across its surfaces.

We look at two designers who work in tandem with machines; the artisan and the artificial intelligence combining to create exceptional and unusual pieces. Hilda Nilsson has been working with 3D-printed ceramics for the last four years. Emre Can also uses a 3D printer. With his pieces he hopes to capture the emotional impact that the natural world can make on its observers.

Designer Maryia Virshych works with porcelain to make delicate and refined decorative objects. Her founding principle is that good things take time and that there must be beauty and value in the material things we surround ourselves with. Designer Ruben Pela plays with the subtle variance of textures and colours of the surfaces of delicate vessels.

Brazilian designer Erico Gondim focuses on social design, hoping to promote sustainable products in his home country. Break Studio also experiment with materials to create elegant lights. Founded by architect Lawrence Davidson, the studio takes pride in its experimental design philosophy and creative flexibility.

Toby Duncan is inspired by nature and its contrasting effervescent aliveness and decay. Anita Hanch-Hansen’s sculptural pieces also take curious forms. She uses stoneware and porcelain, using the history of the materials to influence her shapes and colours. Like Toby Duncan, Hanch-Hansen’s work looks at the juxtaposition between life and death in the natural world.

Martina Taranto believes there are many ways humans need to attempt to better coexist with and care for the environment. Her approach to design is informed by her holistic philosophies. Where Fabrizia Fantini experiments with different styles and techniques, building a relationship with the material, and allowing herself to break the rules of clay.

Heon Suk Hong has been working for many years with two materials: clay
and Korean mulberry paper Hanji. The traditional paper art gives Hong a direct connection to her roots and to the traditional crafts of her country. Ana Haberman’s pieces are highly functional, and yet they oppose the haste of modern life with their artistic look. Through her work Haberman asks each individual to be more present.

Jeva Smith creates abstract and anthropomorphic sculptures. Her pieces
are deliberately open-ended, allowing the viewer to see a story of their own
in the strange, body-like forms. Where Rossana Gotelli’s work is sometimes functional, taking the recognisable forms of vases and vessels.
At other times Gotelli creates otherworldly sculptural pieces.

Cluster Crafts caught up with Pietro Petrillo, one of the top Italian designers in the innovative field of Biomaterials. We discussed his bio-brand Keep Life and his ongoing commitment to challenge core environmental problems, like deforestation

Material designer Louisa Muir-Little specialises in knitted textiles and the creation
of three-dimensional material worlds. The experience of touch is important throughout
the process. As it is with another of Cluster Crafts’ textile designers,
Camilla Lundbland.

Reema Abu Hassan aims to create pieces that preserve traditional craft
through modern design and capture the imagination of as many people a possible
with the magic of clay. Also working with human narratives and the idea of the female body as a vessel of stories is Belgian ceramicist Valérie Ceulemans.

Bénédicte Mourgues-Narcy work is inspired by poetry and looks to capture
the human experience. Many of the pieces have their own names because each,
she explains, has its own personality. Where artist Fabienne Withofs has been making unusual pieces that are an attempt to break free of preconceived ideas of what ceramics should look or feel like.

We have come to the end of our selection and after an interesting journey getting to know the previous four shortlisted artists we’re excited to finally present the winner! 
This is Cluster London Getting to know Toni Losey, winner of the first edition of the Cluster Crafts Residency Programme. Let’s take a closer look at her work!

This is Cluster London Getting to know Miadzvedzeva Hanna, one of the shortlisted artists from the first edition of the Cluster Crafts Residency Programme.

Jonathan Ausseresse aims to create a sense of contemplation in the viewer
and a calm, quiet feeling. Naoko Watanabe works chiefly with stained glass
to create pieces that also play with light and attempt to capture the ever-changing essence of nature in static pieces of design.

Ceramicist Aga Robak takes inspiration from both geometric shapes and natural forms in her functional vessels. Also taking inspiration from the endless movement of nature, Hungarian artist Agnes Husz has been interested in craft techniques for many years.

For this spotlight on traditional methodologies, we present two artists who look
to the past to create elaborate and elegant contemporary pieces. Both artists
are also using their work to comment on the relationship between the human
and the natural world.

This is Cluster London Getting to know… Monika Patuszynska the last
of our shortlisted artists from the first edition of the Cluster Crafts Residency Programme.

Ceramicist and artist Sarah Glover plays with the characteristics of strength and delicacy with her ornate porcelain creations. Joshua Woof of Nuvo Porcelain also uses porcelain as a medium for storytelling, he explores texture and colour and creates truly multidimensional physical experiences.

Shua'a Ali Muftah is an artist from the small peninsula of Qatar. Throughout her life, Muftah has moved between many countries and attributes a sense of artistic identity to having many international influences. French artist and sculptor Matthieu Gicquel uses different material masses to make pieces that resemble natural rock formations.

French designer Romane Perelle works with furniture, space and functional design objects. She used the idea of a bulb as a starting point for exploring shape and light. Where Hayden Richer instead uses the bulb to adorn her sculptural pieces,
which attempt to capture the ideas of weight, mass and the effect and slowness of time.

Tomoya Sakai creates pieces that are inspired by the visible world – found objects, nature and architecture, but also draws inspiration from the subconscious.
Dominique Mercadal on the other hand finds enjoyment in observing nature and trees and tries to capture some of the peacefulness nature radiates in her work.

Makoto Saito creates pieces that explore the limits of perception and aims to question the relationship between master and servant; object and subject; life and death.
Jung San uses metal to create a sense of lightness in his work by creating thin, sharp angles that have both a sense of strength and delicacy.

Colette Vermeulen’s pieces are inspired also by architectural forms and geometric shapes, which she then abstracts to a point where they also seem to mimic nature
and the flesh. Also working with geometric forms and energetic shapes, Hungarian artist Diana Butucariu works with clay and glass to create 3-dimensional sculptures
with unusual webs of movement.

This is Cluster London Getting to know… IrenTete, one of the shortlisted artists
from the first edition of the Cluster Crafts Residency Programme.

Yusuke Offhause’s work explores imperfection. Fascinated by the aesthetic results
of accidental or unintentional things. He says he allows his objects to become things
they weren’t intended to be. Where Offhause’s work is intentionally irregular
and imperfect, the pieces by Coki Barbieri are much more measured and precise. Using many of the same materials as Offhause but to very different effect, the Coki pieces look to nature for inspiration.

Designers Erin Lorek and Sarah Amatt both create work that plays with light.
Amatt’s paper and ink lampshades create soft hues and draw attention to delicate patterns. Lorek’s work is made of more solid materials – glass and iron – but the pieces also encourage light to gently play and move across their surfaces.

Where Dragana Kojic’s work comes from a place of intuition and exploration
with the material, Spanish artist Constanza López-Caparrós works instead with an eye on the detail and a deliberate rigour in her process. The two opposing approaches used by the ceramicists is visible in the spirit of their work.

Margaux de Penfentenyo enjoys working with materials that offer her
a multi-sensorial creative experience. The smell of wood or palm leaves as she works with them, or the colour of an element that changes with a chosen dye. Also inspired by nature, artist Tim Somers creates highly charged works that highlights big deforestation problems. Somers takes inspiration in a more conceptual manner, using his pieces to draw attention to sustainability problems.

Ken Adams’s explorations as a maker have allowed him to discover the many faces
of clay, and the infinite number of textures he can create. His work is markedly strange looking, built around balloons that are popped and removed to leave delicate vessels.
Luciana Grazia Menegazzi work investigates themes of fragility and lightness, playing with everyday forms like vases and bowls, trying to capture the essence
of these forms in a new way.

Designer Marek Silka is preoccupied with trying to capture a moment
of metamorphosis frozen in time. His objects have a sense of dynamic movement,
frozen in stillness. Multidisciplinary artist Alison Brown is also fascinated by ideas
of material transformation. She makes pieces that can be work as sculptural jewellery
on the body or to adorn the space you occupy.

Cluster London launches a new series of interviews titled Getting to Know…
Here we'll take a closer look at the winner and shortlisted artists from the first edition of our Cluster Crafts Residency Programme.
This is Cluster London Getting to Know... Studio B Severin

In her ceramic work, Leena Hyttinen embraces the accidental – allowing the process to shape the piece. However, with her glass work she is more precise and deliberate. Warm, soft clay allowing for chance and change. David Valner’s work sits between sculpture and utility, mostly functional pieces with organic shapes, textures and patterns. His connection with the material and its particular alchemy spans back to his youth.

Magdolna Toth has practiced art her whole life. Her work is a form of self-expression, guided by curiosity. Fascinated by looking for the connections between complex things. She explores how society, technology and nature are all link in overlapping ways.
Artist Cristina Mato also creates geometric sculptures with thin ribbons of paper clay.
Her pieces are reminiscent of the structures that once held up corsets and clothing.

In today’s spotlight on ceramic art, we look at two creatives who have taken inspiration from eastern and western philosophies. Both focus on creating work that captures relationships. Amie Chan focuses on the relationship between man and nature,
while Catherine Janssens looks at how to express our relationship with each other
in clay sculptures she called Encounters.

French furniture designer Vincent Decat aims to create pieces of furniture that lack an explicit function, so that the user can appropriate them at will.
As for designers Eundahm Hwang & Joohyun Kang who work in very different way to Decat. Their pieces are premeditated, modelled and thoroughly considered

Designer Yvon Smeets is trying to encourage an emotional relationship between an owner and a thing. She works with porcelain and glass that she combines with textured elements that make her pieces seem more alive to try trigger a sense of attachment.
Jeannine Vrins of Atelier Oker also makes ceramic objects that have a certain sense of playfulness and life to them that tap into the emotions of the viewer. She makes thrown pitchers that appear to almost dance.

Pottery & Poetry is a studio formed by two friends, who started a creative project
as a means of spending more time together. They make colourful, simple shapes
that are expression of play, purity and joy. Tokyo-based ceramicist Aya Ogawa
also came to ceramics via an unconventional route. Ogawa’s pieces capture a calm state of mind. Her emotions, she explains, are held in her work.

Artist Angelica Tulimiero is based in the small Italian town of Cava de' Tirreni,
the home of a commune that is known for its ceramic production. Close to the coast,
the sea and its creatures and textures infiltrate her work.
Also paying close attention to textures in nature, Latvian designer Sarmite Polakova has a particular interest in matter and material research.  Her work centres around
the transformation of different natural materials into new design objects.

Even the smallest, most common of items can take your breath away. Often the hardest design challenge is to reimagine the ubiquitous items that we take for granted and give them magic. Both Hideaki Nishimura of Atelier Anti and Maarten Baptist work to catch your attention with simple, beautiful objects in the home.

Cathy Jacobs is an artist who weaves. Her textile artworks are abstract expressions of her inner world – capturing the constant tension between control and freedom. Van Der Plus also searches for balance and contrast, for a sense of strength and fragility. Her primary interest in art and design has always been capturing the clash between human life and natural materials. Read our article for more insights into the two artists.

Emerging Australian artist and maker Narelle White is passionate about the messy, unpredictable nature of working with clay. Another Cluster artist who explores the potential of clay is Australian artist Cassandra McArthur. This article explores how these two artists connect objects to landscape.

Spanish creator Ana-Belen Montero studied fine arts in Belgium and, over the course of many years of study and exploration, found that clay was her favourite material. This fascination with how materials respond to the touch of the maker and transform themselves in the process is also the driving artistic motivation for Kira Ni. Click the link below and read all about them.

Born in South Africa and based in Brighton, UK, ceramic artist Barbara Gittings specialises in Nerikomi techniques. Artist Anna Bingham also works with ceramics. Click the link below and read all about them.

Siup Studio is a collective made up of Polish artists Marcin Sieczka, Martina Dymek and Kasia Skoczylas. French designer Sophie Roland also looks to nature to inspire the work she does with clay. These two studios both use the form of mountains to inspire them, and we’ll explore what makes their work so unique from the other.

British designer Hari Gordon works with wood to create pieces of furniture that call to be touched. Italian craftsman Marco Bellini aims to celebrate the casual collaboration between maker and material, allowing for spontaneity in the process.

Cluster Crafts is pleased to welcome Design Editor and Creative Director, Roddy Clarke to our Artist in Residency Programme as a Jury mentor. Contributing to titles including Forbes, and the Financial Times to name a few, Roddy highlights projects with a focus on Sustainability and circular design. With an ecological view, Roddy will bring an insightful perspective to the programme and selected Residency Artist.

Irish designer Aoife Soden makes functional glass sculptures with brightly coloured tints. The selection of work included in the Cluster Crafts collection is typical of Soden’s particular style. Latvian artist Baiba Dzenite also works with misted glass, using the varying transparency of the material to create the impression of fog or dew in the vases she creates.

These two artist explore the duality of porcelain. Born in Brazil to parents from Poland and Egypt, designer Elizabeth Degenszejn’s work has a preoccupation with identity and personal expression. Also working with porcelain, Swedish designer Nicklas Dennermalm creates monochromatic works from his Stockholm-based studio. 

Cluster Crafts chats with Carolina Pacheco, one of Chilies foremost designers in the emerging field of Biomaterials to find out what all the fuss is about.

Panicos Spanos is a Greek-Cypriot artist residing in Limassol, Cyprus. He is most known for his large-scale sculptures that are part of private collections all over the world and stand in public spaces in Cyprus.

In this article we explore two of the Cluster artists who take inspiration from the textures and tones of nature. Russian ceramic artist Yaroslav Zabavskiy aims to create moments of pause with his rough-surfaced vessels and Monika Dabrowska, a ceramist from Poland, is also inspired by the forms she sees in the natural world.

Sam Lucas & Julia Olanders take cues from the human body for their unusual forms. Click the link below for more insight into their works.

Multidisciplinary designers Orcum Erdem and Kaya Studio create artefacts that are inspired by pop art and pleasure.

Cluster Crafts is pleased to welcome collector and Director of PIK’D Gallery, Randa Missir to our Residency Programme as a Jury Panel Member. PIK’D Gallery champions renowned artists internationally across ceramics and glass showcasing collectible contemporary pieces. As a member of Cluster Crafts Jury, Randa will provide mentorship advising in the creative sector. With experience in the field of collectible contemporary design, her insights will provide the selected residency applicant with first-hand collectible design and gallery tailored advice.

Our perception of the human body is ever changing and this new millennium is no different. It is no surprise then that artists are increasingly reinterpreting the materiality and function of textiles as a way to comment on the new roles and perceptions of the human body. The following are just two of the many exciting recent developments in the world of ‘intelligent textiles’.

We are pleased to begin our Cluster Crafts Exhibitor Focus article series with maker Aga Robak. Stay tuned for an in-depth journey through our selection of exciting makers, their unique talents and magnificent products. Visit our website, sign up and receive weekly updates.

We are pleased to continue our Cluster Crafts Exhibitor Focus article series with maker Ana Haberman. Stay tuned for an in-depth journey through our selection of exciting makers, their unique talents and magnificent products. Visit our website, sign up and receive weekly updates.

We are pleased to continue our Cluster Crafts Exhibitor Focus article series with maker Ashley Martin. Stay tuned for an in-depth journey through our selection of exciting makers, their unique talents and magnificent products. Visit our website, sign up and receive weekly updates.

NOVEMBER 2020

Cluster Crafts takes a dive into Dutch Design Week’s 2020 Edition, “The New Intimacy”. Across the realm of 3D viewing rooms, live streams and their own DDW TV, it explored the impact of the global pandemic on how we live, work and socialise. Hear further as we touch upon a few of the talented designers who exhibited their work virtually this year. 

IKEA’s research lab Space10 focuses its work on eco-friendly design. From open-source bee hotels and algae-producing domes, to cookbooks featuring future-proof food and miniature villages that demonstrate how communities could create clean, circular energy – the research lab is working hard to create a healthier and more eco-friendly world.

Cluster welcomes Lynne Speake to the journal, hear her insights into the future of contemporary jewellery, where she started and what inspires her work.

OCTOBER 2020

As if ceramics were not already popular enough, Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throw Down has created a frenzy for the art. The tricky thing about the rise in the number of people delving into ceramics is that all those individuals need to fire their ceramics, and space is limited. To help matters we have put together a concise list of artist kilns in London, which includes a medley of kilns that offer artist studio spaces or one-off booking.

Cluster Crafts here delves into Cluster exhibitors Ashley Martin and Klaus Kirchner navigating the medium of wood. Formally trained in aviation and Meteorology, Ashley Martin pursued his creative endeavours in 2016 forming Ash Woodworking Co; whilst Klaus Kirchner after attending a woodturning course was drawn into the medium. Hear from both artists and learn insights into their work and the textural earthy material.

The practice of craft-making has always occupied a rather awkward and ill-fitting place in the art world. For years, it has been dismissed as subservient to the seven traditional arts: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Literature, Music, Performing, and Film. However, during the past decade, galleries and fairs have made efforts to re-introduce and re-establish the artistic value of crafts under the vague categorisation of “mixed media” art.

Discover the application of 3D rendering across the craft sector as Cluster Crafts delves into Adorno’s digital gallery. In collaboration with 14 digital designers, Adorno creates visual landscapes, taking craft designers into a surreal and imaginative setting. The use of such digital renders has taken contemporary craft into a new dimension that one can only simply be in awe of, we certainly are.

Based in Copenhagen, Yonobi Studio showcases ceramic artists across an international radar. Hear insights into the world of contemporary craft.

We live in a time where the 24/7 demands of the digital world and modern life have driven us to an overwhelmingly fast pace. Stress, fatigue and depression have become today’s plague and the race to find an antidote seems never-ending. As a result, many turned to craft-making as an effective way to practice mindfulness.

QEST supports excellence in British craftsmanship across a diverse range of mediums in the craft sector. Hear from QEST CEO Deborah Pocock as she unfolds insight into the origins, mission statement and ethos of QEST.

Cluster Crafts Journal highlights Studio Weave ‘Hothouse’ London Design Festival Landmark Project in Stratford. The plants designed by landscaper Tom Massey draw attention to the impact of climate change on biodiversity, creating a futuristic environment for viewers to explore and learn about the natural world.

Cluster Crafts is pleased to welcome Collectible Fair Director Clelie Debehaut and Liv Vaisberg to our journal. Gain an insight into the inspiration of Collectible Fair, the meanings of collectible craft, curatorial practice within a gallery fair context, and how to gain museum, gallery recognition.

Cluster London is delighted to announce the launch of its first artist-in-residence programme, which will offer early-career artists living outside of London the opportunity to experience the capital’s creative vibrancy through a fully-funded residency, and to develop their network in the city through a tailored mentorship programme.

SEPTEMBER 2020

Cluster Crafts is happy to welcome Jakhu Studio to our journal. Hear about their background, concept, latest collections & vision.

Cluster Crafts is pleased to welcome Patrick Nash to our online journal. Hear from Patrick as he gives us some insight into his life and future projects.

Cluster Crafts is pleased to present Patrick Nash. Cluster has been working with Patrick Nash since exhibiting his breathtaking works for the first time in October 2018. The next collaborative project will be at Cluster Crafts’s Fair in October.

The New Reality, presented by digital design gallery Adorno, will present over 100 works of design from 14 European countries throughout the duration of London Design Festival 2020, with each day of the programme focusing on a two countries.

Cluster Crafts Journal is pleased to welcome curator and designer Sebastian Bergne for a in depth conversation about guiding young designers into the industry.

Exhibitions immerse you in a world of beauty and skill, and sometimes the most inconspicuous piece is the one that moves you most powerfully. Machine made pieces will never have this quality.

Cluster Crafts is pleased to welcome Peter Amby, curator of Last Resort Gallery to our online journal. Hear from Peter as he unfolds insights to their recent exhibition, ‘Stay at Home’, advice for artists in online documentation, and the design events sector.

Cluster Crafts is pleased to welcome artist and architecture writer, Ching to our Journal, highlighting a Belarusian Memorial Chapel designed by Spheron Architects; it provides an emotive space for reflection engaging an emotional look on architectural surroundings. 

Cluster Crafts is pleased to invite strategic innovation, futures and foresight practice We Create Futures to our journal. Forming new combinations of design, research and strategic foresight, hear from founder and CEO Chris Jackson as he unfolds some insights as to how such tools can aid the development of regenerative futures, and build upon projects that support sustainable future scenarios both across the design sector and wider community. 

Cluster Crafts journal contributor Aditi Kumar takes you through Dhokra Art, the forty five centuries old practice.

Sustainable design is a hot topic, and will be for the foreseeable future as we approach the crisis of climate catastrophe from all disciplines. As we’ve seen, new technologies and stunning aesthetics will not be compromised in favor of going green. Instead, designers and makers are looking to Mother Nature for both visual and technical inspiration.

Cluster Crafts journal is pleased to welcome London/LA based CURA and its founders Georgia Powell and Liza Shapiro for an insightful conversation about their practice, supporting collectors and art collections.

Cluster Crafts gains an insight from Hauser & Wirth speaking with Art Basel, collector Patrizia Sandretto and The Financial Times on “Art Collecting in a Virtual World” exploring the ‘shift’ collectors and collections have taken when physical events are on pause. From 3D event visualisations to virtual studio tours, technology here is applied with increased accessibility and audience reach and as a complement rather than an alternative to experience in the physical world. With a lack of physical events, in this conversation we hear the digital perspective in a positive light and how this can enact further audience engagement.

Issey Scott takes you on a high class world-tour journey from Norway to the USA, exploring sculpture and craft.

Writer Issey Scott explores lighting design highlighting Cluster exhibitors, Patrick Nash from PND Neon, along with Haberdashery, Mona Sharma and previous Cluster exhibitor, Joshua Kerley. Join us on this explorative journey as we step into lighting design not only as a functional tool, but one that can transform our surroundings through immersive sensations

Cluster Crafts Curator, Lucy Swift explores deeper into the realm of materials in its relationship to the spatial environment and how materials can have agency over the use of such space. Joining the discussion by Sto Wekstatt and The British Council ‘In Materiality in the garden privatised delights’, we hear from British Council Design Director, Sevra Davis along with Author and founder of ‘Why Materials Matter’, Seetal Solanki with Manijeh Verghese, Madeline Kessler and Anna Mansfield. We gain an insight into the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, along with a deeper understanding of privatised public land and matters of ownership and accessibility. Join us on this journey as we discover the beauty that lies within material and immaterial environments and how aspects of material understanding can underpin our relationship with our interaction with the spatial urban environment.

Cluster Crafts is pleased to welcome Will Knight to our journal. With previous experience as Director at 100% Design and Clerkenwell Design Week, he has led the UK’s largest Design events and exhibitions as a key leader in the industry. Previously as Deputy Director of London Design Festival, Will has supported the development of the design industry establishing key design exhibitions with a national and international reach.

Focus on Functional Design

Writer Issey Scott discusses functional design, featuring Cluster Crafts exhibitors David Valner, Junsu Kim and Julia Olanders.

Interview w/ Orlando Lovell

Cluster Crafts curator Lucy Swift pushes the boundaries of her research, looking beyond conventional materials and aesthetic stimulation. In this interview the curator is exploring the realm of the edible sculpture and introducing you to the work of Orlando Lovell.

Curator’s Focus on Glass

Cluster Crafts’ curator Lucy Swift talks about the world of glass through compiling interesting information, mentioning creative initiatives and information to get inspired by.