Handcraft is central to our practice, our background is ceramics both fine art and design, between us we have an extensive set of handcraft skills and over 15yrs experience in ceramic making techniques. These making skills translate to all materials, whether we handcraft a design from beginning to end, or make a prototype to be manufactured, the hand-making element to our practice is paramount.
For our creative practice expanding and making with other materials is all about opening up to new ideas, processes, experimenting and research. Our training in clay has had a profound effect on us as makers; clay is an extremely versatile and expressive material and has provided us with an incredible foundation, not just to continue working in ceramics but to explore other materials using these transferable skills. We are very drawn to many materials, often materials considered unconventional really excite us, we like the challenge of discovering what you can achieve with something new. We connect materials with a narrative; it’s our starting point, allowing the properties of the material to guide us towards a finished outcome, often beginning a project with no definitive end point. Our work strives to engage people through its tactile qualities and its narrative theme, therefore the material choices we make are very important and this is becoming more apparent as our practice evolves.
