Design-Nation’s leading membership programme champions excellence in UK-based makers and designers, creating innovative and inclusive opportunities for the contemporary design and craft sector for 25 years. Design-Nation works with partners and independent industry experts, supporting and promoting a carefully selected portfolio of highly skilled craftspeople who demonstrate authenticity and exceptional design ability.
For Collect 2025, Design-Nation presents a baker’s dozen of craft professionals who explore juxtapositions and contrasts in finely honed artwork. These makers test tensions between order and disorder, between human-formed and natural forms, between the newly created and the re-imagined past. Respect for material, shape and structure is paramount. Elements brought together in new and unexpected combinations create highly collectible objects for the 21st century.
Artists
- Louise Bell (ceramics)
- Kim Colebrook (ceramics)
- Hannah Gibson (glass)
- Adele Howitt (ceramics)
- Denise Jaques (mixed media)
- Jane King (ceramics)
- Hannah Lane (mixed media)
- Ömer Öner (ceramics)
- Kira Phoenix K’inan (glass)
- Anna Rennie (metal)
- Deborah Timperley (glass)
- Carola van Dyke (fibre)
- Zoë Wilson (stone)
Contact
c/o Centre for Culture & Creativity
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool,
Lincoln LN6 7TS
UK
@design_nationuk
Clare Edwards
Director
Hayley Banks
Membership lead
Richard Foot
Exhibitions lead
Liz Cooper
Strategy & development