New Maker Showcase 2024

New Maker Showcase 2024

It's New Maker season at Contemporary Applied Arts! We are so excited to have taken on nine talented new makers, working across ceramics, wood and glass. Our New Maker Showcase runs from the 12th - 26rd of November. Each maker's work demonstrates the breadth and innovation of the contemporary applied arts scene in the United Kingdom, and we couldn't be more pleased to welcome them to CAA.⁠
A delightful opportunity to explore the new work from our new makers. Take in stunning new pieces in ceramics, glass, metal and wood by our nine new makers and get the chance to learn more about their work and inspirations.⁠
Each maker's work demonstrates the breadth and innovation of the contemporary applied arts scene in the United Kingdom, and we couldn't be more pleased to welcome them to CAA.⁠
Tim Fluck
Tim Fluck is a ceramic artist based in Sussex. He is a BCB Fresh Talent Award winner, has appeared on the cover of Ceramic Art London’s catalogue and was selected as ‘one to watch’ by Ceramic Review. Tim Fluck has gained recognition for his unique approach that combines resin, acrylic & neon lights, pushing the boundaries of contemporary ceramic art. His tabletop-sized porcelain sculptures of various component parts are arranged to create playful yet precarious architectural compositions.
Tim Fluck - Elastic Futures, 2024 Porcelain and acrylic
Beate Gegenwart
Beate Gegenwart’s principal medium is enamel, a thin layer of glass fired onto metal. She is passionate about this wonderful material & the array of beautiful surfaces & qualities that may be created. She sees the initial drawing process as a ‘rehearsal’ for the permanent marks to be incised or cut; lines describing space. Subsequently, the layers of enamel, fragile yet hard & permanent, interrupt the juxtaposition of the cut spaces, each meticulously drawn, scratched, abraded & engraved.
Beate Gegenwart - Tracing Currents Bowl 2, 2024 Steel and vitreous enamel
Ferri Farahmandi
London-based Iranian ceramicist Ferri Farahmandi is inspired by the symbiotic relationship between the human form & nature, making figurative sculptures that depict the dynamics & elegance of the female form. Handbuilding her sculptures from grogged earthenware clay, she applies oxides & glaze so that the pieces look as though they’ve been oxidised from being submerged underwater, highlighting the idea that physical and emotional change is a fundamental and natural force that affects us all.
Ferri Farahmandi - Aurora, 2024 Smoke fired porcelain and natural slate
Mathieu Jones
Mathieu Jones is a craftsperson specialised in making unique & functional hand-crafted wooden objects. Mat lives & works in East London. He largely uses hand tools, employing a mix of traditional & contemporary techniques. He works with green, locally grown timber. Mat leaves a tool finish on his work that he believes conveys the characters of the timber as well as the maker.
Mathieu Jones - Cherry Turned Vessel, 2024 Hand-turned cherry wood
Verity Pulford
Glass artist Verity Pulford creates sculptural glass art that takes a magical realist look at the natural world. Combining a variety of processes - cast glass, pate de verre, kilnforming, painting, and etching with natural materials, she creates vessels, sculpture, installation, architectural and public art. The landscape around her studio in rural North Wales is her main source of inspiration.
Verity Pulford - Algae Bowls (Blue & Purple), 2024
Barbara Gittings
Barbara Gittings is a ceramicist known for her striking smoke-fired Nerikomi porcelain vessels. Contemplative & sensual, they have a sense of calm and serenity that invites the viewer to touch & be drawn into the surface. She embraces inexactness & experimentation in her process, blending precise technique with a loose application. The elemental uncertainty of working with clay, the random and uncontrolled shifts & reactions that take place when creating pattern, is central to her practice.
Barbara Gittings - Asymmetric Rhomboid Form #1, 2024 Smoke-fired porcelain
Eva Radulova
During her studies in Ceramic Design, Eva Radulova was immersed in the history of ceramics production and had the rare opportunity to complete her student work exchange with Wedgwood. Being in the studio of such a prestigious company allowed her to develop her unique style, which brings out the innate qualities of porcelain in sleek, contemporary designs. Functional slipcast porcelainware where clear lines fuse tradition and modernity in stylish silhouettes that meet the needs of modern life.
Eva Radulova - Porcelain Teacup (Lilac), 2024 Slipcast porcelain
Ömer Öner
Ömer Öner’s artistic practice as a ceramicist revolves around the idea of repurposing objects by reimagining and assembling them into highly crafted ceramic forms that tell a story of transformation and regeneration. Ömer employs the techniques of mould-making and slip casting to replicate and multiply the diverse array of discarded materials. Door handles, bed knobs, scrap wood, plastic, glass, and fragments of metal furniture are wellsprings of opportunity and inspiration.
Ömer Öner - Blue Teapot, 2022 Stained slipcast porcelain
Hannah Lane
Hannah Lane is an award-winning wood and paper artist employing traditional woodworking techniques to produce tactile bespoke artworks. Her process combines two materials that began at the same source - wood, a material of longevity and paper. As the pieces are hand worked each material’s grain exposes the consequences of her working actions, revealing the unseen internal imprint as the surface is scraped away. Traditional woodworking methods are then used to shape the objects.
Hannah Lane - Conical Strata, 2021 Hand-turned Pau Amarello & recycled paper