Alan Meredith’s work sits at the intersection of craft, sculpture and architecture, with a portfolio that includes furniture, public space design, and sculptural wood-turned vessels. A focal point of his work is finding ways to respond to the inherent properties of wood through a process-driven approach to technique and practice. Alan was awarded The Golden Fleece Special Award in 2023 and 2024. He is currently creating pieces for the Irish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Based in the Midlands, Chris Day works with glass and mixed media. His work balances technical knowledge and craft skills, addressing the Black experience in both Britain and the US. Day’s pieces aim to confront his audience with the often overlooked traumas of our collective past, using recurring motifs such as copper cages woven over glass. Despite only relatively recently developing his career as a glass artist, impressively he has work held in private collections, as well as the V&A, the National Museum of Scotland, the Stourbridge Glass Museum, and The Chrysler Museum in the US.
In 2020 Jareh Das sat down with Chris Day ahead of his solo show at Vessel Gallery. Read the article here.
Ebony Russell’s works are created by meticulously layering soft ‘piped’ porcelain. This highly skilful technique reflects the artist’s interest in gendered aesthetics and labour. Her approach challenges the tradition of decorative crafts, typically coded as feminine, by making the decorative element fundamental to the piece’s structure. This seeks to erase boundaries between form and aesthetic, and associated gender-based binaries. Russell’s work has been exhibited at Homo Faber, Venice 2024, and at Teetering on the Brink, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York 2024, among other exhibitions.