JOURNAL
COLLECT 2025 | Photoshoot
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Thank you to the Craft Counci, stylist Alex Kristal and photographer Jake Curtis, for including us in this beautiful and thoughtful photoshoot, alongside other exquisite works that will be featured at COLLECT 2025.
Isobel’s paper ‘textile’ and our Simulated Coffee Table are featured here alondside ceramic, metal and wood sculptures from international craft galleries.
It’s alwasy been our dream to exhibit at COLLECT, so we’re looking forward to showing at their 2025 showcase with Flow Gallery, at the end of February. We’ll be presenting our furniture pieces alongside our artworks in a curation that brings the feeling of home to the gallery space.
THE SPIRIT OF THINGS
28th February - 2nd March 2025
Previews 26th & 27th February
Flow’s stand for COLLECT 2025 focuses on the ‘Spirit of Things’.
The theme expresses how hand-crafted objects are imbued with ‘spirit’ – they evidence the process of their maker and come alive through our sensorial encounter with materials. The simple pleasure of experiencing this spirit, particularly in ‘everyday things’, is central to the ethos of Japanese craft.
Our stand will explore how craft from Japan and beyond finds beauty in simplicity, to achieve balance and serenity through the objects around us. The concept celebrates the philosophy of minimalism, placing emphasis on organic textures in clay, textiles, wood, washi paper and glass.
The makers also share a close relationship with nature, making subtle reference to the organic origins of their materials. The curation will present their distinct practices with a sense of harmony, achieved through a display that recreates the feeling of the home. Pieces will be displayed on bespoke furniture, capturing the experience of living with art. By layering the space with crafted works, we wish to emulate a collection made over time.
Thank you to the Craft Counci, stylist Alex Kristal and photographer Jake Curtis, for including us in this beautiful and thoughtful photoshoot, alongside other exquisite works that will be featured at COLLECT 2025.
Isobel’s paper ‘textile’ and our Simulated Coffee Table are featured here alondside ceramic, metal and wood sculptures from international craft galleries.
It’s alwasy been our dream to exhibit at COLLECT, so we’re looking forward to showing at their 2025 showcase with Flow Gallery, at the end of February. We’ll be presenting our furniture pieces alongside our artworks in a curation that brings the feeling of home to the gallery space.
THE SPIRIT OF THINGS
28th February - 2nd March 2025
Previews 26th & 27th February
Flow’s stand for COLLECT 2025 focuses on the ‘Spirit of Things’.
The theme expresses how hand-crafted objects are imbued with ‘spirit’ – they evidence the process of their maker and come alive through our sensorial encounter with materials. The simple pleasure of experiencing this spirit, particularly in ‘everyday things’, is central to the ethos of Japanese craft.
Our stand will explore how craft from Japan and beyond finds beauty in simplicity, to achieve balance and serenity through the objects around us. The concept celebrates the philosophy of minimalism, placing emphasis on organic textures in clay, textiles, wood, washi paper and glass.
The makers also share a close relationship with nature, making subtle reference to the organic origins of their materials. The curation will present their distinct practices with a sense of harmony, achieved through a display that recreates the feeling of the home. Pieces will be displayed on bespoke furniture, capturing the experience of living with art. By layering the space with crafted works, we wish to emulate a collection made over time.
TIMBER SOURCING
Fallen & Felled
195 Mare Street
September, 2023
We aspire for our pieces to exist in unusual spaces, for them to have an opportunity to respond to and be uplifted by their environment. We were excited when we came across 195 Mare Street, one of Hackney's oldest buildings and home to the Elizabeth Fry Refuge between 1860 and 1930. It is soon to be restored as a family home and community arts venue. New owners, Elizabeth and her family, generously let us use the space before renovation.
This astonishing building has a long and complex history, and the surfaces have captured this incredibly well. One of the most important details is that, despite its size and grandeur, it has provided a home and refuge for many people; it is a live-in domestic space.
In anticipation of our photoshoot, we became preoccupied with ideas of texture and modes of display. We wanted to create work that used materials that reflected the rich surface textures that have accumulated over the years, producing and using pieces that feel both grand and humble.
We were fortunate to collaborate with Flow Gallery on this project. Flow carefully curates contemporary craft makers, focusing on the handmade and the personal. They build upon the traditional notion of passing down loved items through the family. We selected pieces from their collection by makers who engage with surface textures and the idea of layers and history, which we thought would have a relationship with the space at Mare Street.
It was a privilege and a challenge to make the most of the space. It was such a pleasure to hear about the history of the building from Elizabeth and their plans for its future. We look forward to seeing how it evolves.
This astonishing building has a long and complex history, and the surfaces have captured this incredibly well. One of the most important details is that, despite its size and grandeur, it has provided a home and refuge for many people; it is a live-in domestic space.
In anticipation of our photoshoot, we became preoccupied with ideas of texture and modes of display. We wanted to create work that used materials that reflected the rich surface textures that have accumulated over the years, producing and using pieces that feel both grand and humble.
We were fortunate to collaborate with Flow Gallery on this project. Flow carefully curates contemporary craft makers, focusing on the handmade and the personal. They build upon the traditional notion of passing down loved items through the family. We selected pieces from their collection by makers who engage with surface textures and the idea of layers and history, which we thought would have a relationship with the space at Mare Street.
It was a privilege and a challenge to make the most of the space. It was such a pleasure to hear about the history of the building from Elizabeth and their plans for its future. We look forward to seeing how it evolves.
INSIDE THE WORKSHOP
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