• nook's • artist and makers in residence are:
Gosia Weber Handmade brings a range of Leather bags and accessories which are all hand cut so no two are the same. Using leather remnants and off-cuts from other companies, Gosia’s bright and practical bags are embellished with striking decorative motifs, asymmetrical shapes and floral appliqués. Each bag is truly unique so no-one else will have the same one!
Sarah Leigh (Felti) makes beautiful, statement felted lighting. Encompassing lamp shades, strings of lights and tactile organic pods, each item is unique. A design may be repeated, but will never be a true replication, such is the wonderfully fluid nature of felt making. Each piece has character and a tactile quality that invites touch and interaction. Drawing on natural inspiration, textures reveal peaks of light and recesses of shade.
Clare Hewitt is a Photographer based in Birmingham, a Senior Lecturer in Photography at The University of the West of England, Bristol, and Archivist for Vanley Burke. Clare’s practice often focusses on ideas relating to loneliness, isolation and collaboration. In Everything in the forest is the forest, she has worked with a community of 12 oak trees at The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR FACE) to visually understand how they thrive through connection and communication, to inspire similar behaviour amongst human beings.
