New names to see at this year’s Collect art fair

20 February 2023

Discover a whole host of fresh craft talent at the event, which returns to Somerset House for its 2023 edition

20 February 2023

Xanthe Sommers pictured in studio. Photo: Deniz Güzel for Galerie Revel

The yearly arrival of Collect gives us all the chance to see what some of our favourite makers have been getting up to, but it also lets us discover new faces, too. Ahead of doors opening at the fair, which is taking place at Somerset House from 3 to 5 March, we’ve lined up some of the exciting newcomers that you should keep an eye out for during your visit.

Xanthe Sommers playfully reimagines day-to-day items such as vases. Photo: Deniz Güzel for Galerie Revel

Xanthe Sommers

Putting a playful twist on ordinary domestic items, Zimbabwean ceramic artist Xanthe Sommers – showing with Galerie REVEL – creates fantastically exaggerated lamps, vases, mirrors and more in a vivid array of colours.

Callum Partridge

Gloucestershire-based metalsmith Callum Partridge will be showcasing elevated everyday items made from silver, bronze, brass and other precious materials with London’s Charles Burnand Gallery. Visitors can expect to see lustrous lamps, beakers, candlesticks, cutlery and more.

Partridge will also be one of three makers appearing at our upcoming talk, Metalheads – forging the future of sculptural metal, where he'll be chatting more about the hardy medium.

Chloé Rosetta Bell's ceramic vessels are mixed with elements of natural landscapes. Photo: courtesy of the artist

Chloé Rosetta Bell

Natural landscapes and their stories inform the work of Isle of Wight-based ceramicist Chloé Rosetta Bell. Seashells and seaweed ash are transformed into glazes that adorn her dappled vessels, an assortment of which will be on show with London’s Flow Gallery.

Anne-Laure Cano

Dissecting themes of identity, memory and belonging, Barcelona-based artist Anne-Laure Cano creates charmingly jumbled ceramic sculptures that 'look more like they have been found than made'. Find them on show with London’s 155a Gallery.

Emotive faces emerge from Caiyang Yin's jewellery. Photo: courtesy of Goldsmiths Fair

Caiyang Yin

Glasgow-based Caiyang Yin thinks jewellery is the perfect medium for capturing human emotions. It’s rather fitting, then, that screaming or frowning faces often emerge from his rings, brooches and cufflinks – these unusual pieces will be on show with Goldsmiths' Fair.

Samuel Nnorom

After spending his childhood playing around with fabrics and thread in his mother’s tailoring workshop, Nigerian-born Samuel Nnorom now makes huge bubbled works from colourful ankara cloth. Find them at this year’s Collect with France’s Galerie REVEL.

Geometric patterns feature throughout Mariam Syed's fabrics. Photo: courtesy of the artist

Mariam Syed

Describing herself as a 'mathematician at heart', textile designer Mariam Syed – who is showing with Craft Scotland – creates vibrant, geometric fabrics that are transformed into rugs and a wealth of other soft furnishings for the home.

Jiyong Lee

The shifting translucency of Jiyong Lee’s cellular glass sculptures is meant to reflect 'what is known and unknown' about the world of science, and life as whole. These and a number of the Illinois-based artist’s other abstract works will be appearing at Collect with South Korea’s Gallery Sklo.

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