CERAMICS
JDPceramics, founded by James Pegg in 2016, explores the potential of capturing colour and movement in slipcast porcelain using a unique action casting technique. Pegg studied textile design at Glasgow School of Art and completed an MA at Central St Martins before teaching at London College of Fashion for ten years. Now, alongside his lecturing work he has a studio in Peckham, creating gallery work in addition to a studio line of accessible and functional pieces.

Alice Funge’s business launched at the start of 2018 after winning the National Trust’s associate award at New Designers. She makes tactile, colourful ceramics and bakeware, decorated with fragments of recipes in her late grandmother’s handwriting. She was an Artist in Residence at De Montfort University until recently, but has just moved into her own studio

TEXTILES & HAND-PRINTING
Diane Bresson, who graduated in Textile Design from Central Saint Martins in 2018, is interested in the relation between craft and technology and in exploring how they can be combined together to create playful and dynamic patterns. She loves the beauty of simple shapes, which gain depth and complexity from her sophisticated use of colour. Bresson will show examples of hand printed wallpaper.

Inspired by wanderings around her parents’ nursery garden, Phoebe Deeprose creates bespoke printed interior fabrics, wallpapers and homewares, combining the rustic with the luxurious. Her work displays meticulously-drawn and detailed patterns of delicate flower bouquets and leafy stems, with careful shading and subtle neutral tones printed onto fine wool, velvet and other cloth. She aims to bring disregarded foliage and the soft daily changes in light and colour into the home with a magical and elegant twist.

Aase Hopstock, who founded interiors and accessories brand House of Hopstock in 2017, will display an array of fabrics, cushions and ceramics. With a focus on bold and vibrant illustrated prints, the brand believes in seeking out beauty in everyday luxury. She was a successful shoe designer with a degree from London College of Fashion, before becoming disillusioned with the business and returning to her love of illustration.

Lucy Grainge is an illustrator and graphic designer who graduated in Communication Design at the Glasgow School of Art in 2017. Focusing on process, Grainge harnesses both analogue and digital techniques to promote discussion through visual storytelling. She has developed stencil-based “risograph” prints as an affordable and sustainable way of printing and also produces tote bags. Grainge has printed a large-scale textile banner for Design Fresh, which illustrates the potential of bespoke commissions for textile lengths.

Nia Rist’s striking large-scale monochrome prints reflect the enthusiasm and sunny nature of this young fabric printer from South Wales, who graduated in Surface Pattern from Swansea College of Art in 2016. Now she has her own workshop, printing onto fabric for cushions, upholstery and lampshades which can be supplied with a striking wooden base. She enjoys playing around with colour, pattern and scale; accordingly, Rist cuts, pastes and paints, creating the collages which become the basis of her fabric prints, only stopping when she has the right balance of motifs for her bold patterns.

Textile artist Lizzie Hillier is based in Sussex. She has a BA in Textiles from Goldsmiths College in London and an MA in Sequential Design from Brighton University. Lizzie went on to run the block print textile company, Woven Oak, where her customers included Liberty London, The Victoria & Albert Museum and Mitsukoshi in Tokyo, Japan. Now her emphasis is on bold statement pieces for the home, such as fabric by the metre, lampshades and cushions. These are screen printed with clean abstract shapes enlivened by energetic brush marks. She will display a vintage chair upholstered in her own fabric.