Furniture designer/maker and woodworker

Aidan’s practice is focused on weaving in the personal details of client’s briefs with unexpected and exciting visual influences. He makes furniture that celebrates handwork, traditional solid timber construction, and functional, contemporary design. Aidan specialises in bespoke commissions and small-scale production pieces, each designed to tell a unique story.

Ceramicist and educator

Katie is a ceramic artist whose work explores three-dimensional design through sculptural forms. Drawn to the beauty of everyday objects, she creates pieces that aim to bring a sense of joy to daily life. Katie takes an experimental approach to making, exploring color and form in ways that bring a unique vibrancy to her work.

Ceramicist

Liam is a ceramicist who specialises in hand-building, drawing inspiration from the ceramics of antiquity and forms found in the natural world. Using natural materials and incorporating local geology.

Textile artist and researcher

Claire investigates, deconstructs, and reinterprets garments to produce objects that merge traces of the original with her own layers.

She studied 3D Design and Embroidery at Manchester School of Art and is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD at De Montfort University. Her research investigates how current sustainable fashion can utilise 18th century pattern cutting and alteration methods.

Illustrator

Dylan is an illustrator who uses a mixture of handmade and digital mediums to create work that is centred around playfulness, community and storytelling.

Fashion and accessory designer

Jessica is a contemporary fashion designer behind Mei Studios.

Mei was never about being just one thing - Jessica’s designed collections bring art, clothing and objects into one world filled with colour and textiles.

Textile maker, researcher and educator

Faye is a textile maker who explores methods and metaphors of connection through stitch. In 2024 she completed her practice-led PhD that considered the synergies between stitching and walking as a means to examine how we are entangled with place.

Current research centres on patchwork and the process of stitching, un-stitching and re-stitching as method for reflexive-material thinking.

Photographer

Jess is a photographer and marketer for small businesses & independents. She focuses on candid photography to help people build their brand, and community-driven marketing to help them promote it. 

She's always keen to bring business owners together to learn simple ways of creating content and regularly runs workshops as part of her Content Community.