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Ella Merriman

Ella Merriman is a London-based artist and designer whose practice centres on the endangered craft of rush basketry. Harvesting rush by hand from slow-flowing rivers across the UK, her work reflects a deep engagement with material, place, and process, while exploring the growing disconnection between humans and the natural world.

Combining traditional techniques with found objects collected from London streets, Ella Merriman creates a dialogue between urban and rural environments. Her practice is rooted in slow, tactile making, guided by intuition and the inherent qualities of her materials.

Through experimental forms, she reimagines everyday and discarded objects, extending rush basketry beyond its functional origins into conceptual and decorative realms. Her work engages with themes of preservation, renewal, and the subtle presence of nature within contemporary life.

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Artist Biography

Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Sculpture – Land
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Mobile
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other
Sculpture – Tabletop

Subject:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Interiors

Selected Exhibitions

2026 – Selected for Collect Open 2026, Collect at Somerset House
2025 – Exhibited in ‘A Moment in Time’ at the Van Gogh House
2025 – Exhibited with Cox London during London Craft Week
2025 – Exhibited in Undoings at the Sussex Contemporary
2024 – Worshipful Company of Basketmakers’ Award – prize of a studio at Cockpit Bloomsbury in London
2018 – First Class Honours, BA Furniture & Product Design, The School of Art, Architecture and Design
2014 – Distinction, Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Falmouth University

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Patricia Mitchell

Patricia Mitchell draws inspiration from experiences gained through her extensive travels and conservation work in Africa, Patricia’s love of nature, botany and global culture and tradition clearly resonates through her work as a mixed media artist.

PAPER: From the magic of a murmuration of starlings; the plight of global deforestation; a myriad of majestic African animals; origami diamonds; sculptured paper fish; origami Japanese slippers to even a colourful selection of bees, dragonflies and beetles – every piece Patricia sculpts from paper comes with a thought provoking narrative.

MESH: The other genre of her portfolio are her signature abstract elephant sculptures made with aluminium mesh,

coated with a mix of 24ct gold and Fools Gold. Her golden elephants can either be seen in family herds or alone, marching along on pieces of ancient drift wood, sourced from the Jurassic coasts of New Zealand. “No other wood will do – drift wood has withstood the test of time, yet it still holds its beauty, strength and power, much like our beloved elephants.”

Behind the awe inspiring intricacy of Patricia Mitchell’s paper and mesh sculptures, there always lies an empowering story which can be either be absorbed, be viewed in passing or can be used as an interesting topic to research and to discuss.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Internal
Table Top

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Gilded Aluminium Mesh
Sculpture – Paper
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Geographical
Interiors

Patricia Mitchell - Walk of Life - Detail

Patricia Mitchell - School of Fish with Leaves

Patricia Mitchell - The Golden Elephants

Patricia Mitchell - Postcards from the Tropics

Patricia Mitchell - Pap Du Cong - Framed

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“No other wood will do – drift wood has withstood the test of time, yet it still holds its beauty, strength and power, much like our beloved elephants.”

Patricia Mitchell

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Jad Oakes

London-based Jad Oakes explores the possibilities of photography and the moving image for sculptural installations, prints and photogravures.

His works are presented as collections or bodies of work that are connected by their process, theme and technique. The main thread that ties these bodies of works together is a fascination with memory and time.

Since 2014 he has developed and nurtured an ongoing series of small scale silent looping film installations housed in wooden sculptures titled Vessels.

Condensed Vessel Videos:

Dreams of Somewhere Else
Moonscape 50
Memory Vessel

Using timbers of Oak, Walnut and Bog Oak these moving image sculptures seek to connect with the viewer by projecting them into an alternative space and time.

Of the Vessels series he notes a desire to “create intimate emotive sculptures, enticing contemplation and memory.”

Jad Oakes was awarded the Aesthetica Prize at the 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Medium:

Collage
Digital
Mixed Media
Photography
Photomontage
Prints – Artist
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other
Video/Film

Subject:

Historical
Landscape
Portrait/Figurative

Selected Exhibitions

2019

Discerning Eye Aesthetica Award
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

2018

Residues – By Other Means Gallery, London
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries
Meet the Members – London Print Studio
Identity – Kindred Studios, London

2017

Unique Beauty – Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
Affordable Art Fair, London
Portrait 17 – Degree Art, London

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Rebecca Gouldson

Rebecca Gouldson creates elegant, bespoke metal and enamel wall pieces for private, corporate and public spaces.

The beautifully etched, rich metallic surfaces are created using techniques more traditionally used by printmakers. These expressive, reflective surfaces engage the viewer as they transform with the changing light of the day.

Rebecca draws inspiration from diverse subject matter, including architecture, the rural landscape, and maps. Working closely with her clients, each response to a commission brief involves taking photographs, and making drawings, prints and collages on paper. This imagery is combined, manipulated and then etched in to metal. Layers of processes, including electroplating and chemical patination, are used in innovative sequences, which push the boundaries of metalworking, to create unique objects.

Having established her studio in 2003, Rebecca Gouldson quickly rose to acclaim at first nationally, receiving awards from the Crafts Council and Crafts Magazine, and then internationally, exhibiting in the USA at prestigious shows such as SOFA Chicago and Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. Back in the UK, her work was sold at London and Edinburgh Art Fairs.

Since then, she has been working on projects as diverse as superyachts, board rooms, and luxury jewellery and fashion brands in the US, Japan and the Middle East. In 2014, Rebecca extended her artistic practice to include vitreous enamel, which has extended the potential of her commission work in to architectural facades and outdoor sculptures.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Medium:

Enamel
Installation
Sculpture – Metal Fabricated
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Geographical
Historical
Landscape
Seascape/Water
Sporting
Still Life

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Colin Rose

Colin Rose has worked as a sculptor for over thirty years. He has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe and has undertaken many public sculpture commissions.

He has undertaken public sculpture commissions for a very wide range of clients in various mediums. Colin usually works by taking a brief from the client and allowing the brief and the site to lead the design. Over the years he has worked in a variety of mediums from mirror polished stainless steel to stone. More unusually he has worked with Rope, Brick and even Coal Dust depending on the requirement of the brief.

While developing his practice Colin taught fine art and was head of Sculpture at Sunderland University from 2000 till 2006.

In addition to making sculpture, Colin Rose has a strong passion for drawing and the immediacy the process offers. The understanding gained through drawing is an important tool in the development of his designs and his working practice.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Paintings
Other

Sculpture Types:

External
Internal
Tabletop

Mediums:

Drawings
Paintings on Canvas
Sculpture – Metal Fabricated
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Resin
Sculpture – Other (Rope, Brick & Coal Dust)

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Selected Commissions:

‘Meteor’ – Jodrell Bank
‘Rain’ – Sheffield
‘You’ – Genome Centre
‘StarBall’ – EBI, Cambridge
‘Swirl Cone’ – Carmarthen
’10 Swirl’ – Gateshead

Selected Exhibitions:

Artlanta – Atlanta USA
Earthworks – NSW, Australia
Villes et Valises – Strasbourg

Selected Awards:

National Design Award
Henry Moore Foundation
Northern Electric Visual Arts Award

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Zac Greening

Zac Greening draws his inspiration principally from nature – ‘the ultimate sculptress’. He finds the sculptural forms created by the sun, moon, waves and trees particularly inspiring as symbols of sustainability.

He works in a wide range of media from discarded plastic bottles to organic matter. Often these materials are fused together to reinforce the aesthetic or narrative that he’s looking to express.

A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment.

Common themes found in his work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues. Issues such as sustainability, environmental degradation, or consumption. Alternatively they may simply be an expression of the marvel and awe he sees in a sunset or the kinetic and meditative experience found in the rolling of sea waves.

Zac Greening communicates and reminds the viewer of mankind’s inextricable socio-economic and spiritual link with the natural world

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Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Medium:

Mixed Media
Recycled Materials
Wood
Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

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A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment. Common themes found in my work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues.

Zac Greening

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Claire Malet

Claire Malet produces work is inspired by natural forms and landscapes. Fragments of sea-worn shells, the rock formations of a battered coastline, a curl of split bark, the dancing light and shadow of woodland all give inspiration.

I also draw inspiration directly from the characteristics of the medium. Working intuitively is key, allowing the metal to suggest a direction and find a relationship with the subject matter. I work in silver, copper, steel and ‘found metals’

Claire Malet is exhibited internationally, with gallery representation in UK, USA, Australia and Ireland.

I have pieces in several public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Museum Cardiff. Awards include Goldsmiths’ Fair Best New Design Award 2014.

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