South Africa

Porky Hefer is a vernacular artist who explores traditional techniques, crafts and materials to create functional objects with modern relevance. He mimics and references the natural world and is known for collaborating with local craftsmen. His imaginative, nature-inspired works blend functionality, style and a message of conservation.

United States

Nomadic artist Zemer Peled examines the beauty and brutality of the natural world through her creations. Her sculptural language is formed by her surrounding landscapes, engaging with themes of nature and memory, identity and place. Her artworks are formed of thousands of porcelain shards constructed into small- and large-scale sculptures and installations.

United States

Based in New York, Chris Wolston explores the material vernacular of the modern day and the fetishization of process. Inspired by manual techniques and the regional contrasts between his Brooklyn and Medellin studios, Wolston creates works that demonstrate playful adaptations of materials, often mixing high- and low-tech processes. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Fulbright grant to Colombia.

Canada

Doug Johnston’s work oscillates between art and design, primarily utilising a process of coiling and machine-stitching cordage based on ancient vessel-building techniques. His main interest lies in building a formal vocabulary that engages in architecture, spatial and landscape formation, commerce, and fundamental human technologies.

United states

The work of John-Paul Philippe is grounded in divining the abstract and the natural realms in which he is immersed. A modernist artist, designer, and aesthete, he strives to find the essence of what the world wants to reveal and then reflect it in his work.

United States

Working at the intersection of design and sculpture, Misha Kahn creates objects whose function is masked by the unusual assemblage of elements used to create them. Kahn designs his objects by hand with unorthodox materials such as pool noodles and fishing wire and often produces the final work through digital means, creating an interplay between the handmade and the technological.

Spain

Known for his tactile approach to sculpture, Nacho Carbonell plays with texture, experimental techniques, and natural materials. His approach is unique, seeing objects as ‘living organisms’ that come alive and surprise you with their behaviour.

South Korea

Arising organically from an early affiliation with nature, Soojin Kang’s interest in nature-inspired creativity eventually led her to thread artistry. Kang believes there is a fundamental need for humans to rediscover the art of handcrafting furnishings with needle and thread using existing materials—rather than constantly purchasing newly made items.

Venezuela

The works of ceramicist Reinaldo Sanguino are vehicles for his memories, daily experiences and imaginings of the future. Like a life journal, his creations carry “mementoes” that can be shared wherever they travel.

England & Netherlands

Glithero is the creative partnership of British designer Tim Simpson and Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren, who met while studying at the Royal College of Art. From their studio in London, they create unique and wonderful objects and installations that are the result of meticulous experimentation and material invention.

South Africa

Ardmore Ceramics was founded by Zimbabwean-born ceramic artist Fée Halsted. The story began in 1985 on the Ardmore Farm, at the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa, where Fée started teaching ceramics to a talented group of rural residents. Later that same year, 18-year-old Bonnie Ntshalintshali, who was born on the farm, began a ceramics apprenticeship under Fée.

Turkey

Istanbul-based glass artist Feleksan Onar is known for creating “magic with glass.” Her expertise ranges across several techniques, including blowing, casting, fusing, lamp-working and cold-working. Her perennial muse is Pera, a fascinating neighbourhood in Istanbul, where she can easily get lost chasing her dreams down the colourful and chaotic streets.

Turkey

Simplicity and minimalism define the creative approach of Seckin Pirim, an artist who was born in Ankara and “came alive” in Kuzguncuk, the artistic quarter of Istanbul, where a number of creative studios are hidden down the narrow streets. The origin of Pirim’s artistic process lies in the world of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, more specifically in his approach of “from one to all”—a philosophy reflected across his works. His designs capture a duality: the multiplication of the singular, and the imaginary singularity of the plural.

Portugal & Brazil

Founded in 2012 by Nuno FS and Ale Clark, Studio Mameluca uses the medium of design to tell stories, generate questions, uncover emotions and facilitate discovery through our senses. This visionary project began in Brazil and is currently based in Portugal.

France

Aurelie Hoegy embodies the fascinating essence of movement through her collections of furniture. Guided by the flow of fibres, she blurs and stretches the lines between art and design. Each object seems like a wild choreography in space, or a graceful aerial ocean wave.

Germany

Maja Rohwetter expresses the beauty of nature through both digital and analogue forms. Using the interface of augmented reality, she transfers her visual worlds into an expanded dimension, where animated 3D objects—originating from painting and collage—unfold. In this in-between space, viewers simultaneously become users.

France

The visionary work of Jeanne Susplugas offers a reflection, not devoid of humour and even cynicism, on the ills of modern society. She holds a degree in Art History from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and has had exhibitions all over the world. Her works have been shown in places such as the KW in Berlin, the Villa Medicis in Rome, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

United States

Gabriela Noelle, a Cuban-American artist, creates whimsical sculptures inspired by childhood wonder. Her acrylic pieces captivate with shifting colours and light, exploring depth and perspective through dynamic layering.

England & France

Renowned for her paintings, installations and sculptures, artist Sophie Kitching explores landscape as an active medium, intertwining nature and architecture, territory, and memory, the seen and unseen.