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Tracy Nicholls

Perfectly Imperfect — edges crumble, surfaces pit, and cracks and voids begin to emerge.

Working from her studio in Southwest London, Tracy creates kiln-formed glass sculptures that explore themes of erosion, deterioration, and fragility. Her work is inspired by the traces left behind through these processes and the intricate structures that endure despite them.

Rejecting the qualities most commonly associated with glass—transparency, brilliance, and high shine—Tracy embraces a restrained monochrome palette and opaque materials. Through the transformative heat of the kiln, she manipulates and distorts the glass, navigating the tension between careful planning and unexpected outcomes. By pushing the material to its physical limits, she reveals delicate forms shaped equally by intention and chance.

Layered constructions and the interplay of light further enrich each piece. As light filters through undulating apertures and reflects within hidden curves, depth, shadow, and subtle luminosity emerge. The result is a quiet yet compelling aesthetic that draws attention to the beauty found in imperfection and the often-overlooked details of decay.

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Categories:

Glass
Sculpture – Glass
Sculpture – Table Top
Sculpture – Interior

Mediums:

Glass

Subject Matter:

Abstact

Selected Awards:

2008 – Best in Show, British Glass Biennale
2024 – Finalist, Toyama Glass Prize, Japan
2022 and 2024 – Finalist Coburg Glass Prize, Germany

Selected Collections:

Lette Glass Museum, Germany
Turner Glass Museum, Sheffield
Dan Klein Collection, National Museum of Scotland
Marinha Grande Museum of Glass, Portugal

Selected UK Exhibitions:

Collect 2017, London
Collect 2023, London

Also Exhibitted in:

USA
Japan
Germany
France
Luxembourg
China
The Netherlands.

Fragile Lace Series II by Tracy Nicholls

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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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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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Sara Stode Winter

Swedish born, London based artist Sara Stode Winter has spent her working life in steady pursuit of creative fulfilment. With a background in fine art and illustration and many years of professional experience in different creative fields, she has acquired a strong artistic confidence and a unique expression that manifests in her abstract paper sculptures. Taking inspiration from her Scandinavian roots, Sara’s sculptures showcase a refined aesthetic and a considered use of colours and materials which, along with her avant-garde mindset, lends each piece an intriguing air of beauty and wonder.
Control is overrated. Interesting things happen when you surrender to the fact that you never really had any in the first place. Shedding a lifelong quest for perfection and preciseness I am now making art as an exploration of what happens when an open creative mind meets malleable materials.

Sara Stode Winter makes large scale sculptures out of quality Italian crepe paper. “When I came across this beautiful paper I was instantly drawn to the playfulness of its properties. Even now the possibilities still seem endless. To dye and manipulate the paper I use different media and techniques in processes that render each piece truly unique. The sculptures all take shape organically; from initial idea to finished artwork nothing is forced into being. I let the paper lead the way.”
Lately Sara has felt a pressing need to make large sculptures, which makes perfect sense. As the physical manifestations of her unleashed creativity, the pieces that emerge demand scale. No longer getting lost in the details, Sara is finding and claiming her space.

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Categories:

Sculpture
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Gilding
Mixed Media
Paper/Paper Pulp
Pastels

Subject

Abstract

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When I came across this beautiful paper I was instantly drawn to the playfulness of its properties. Even now the possibilities still seem endless. To dye and manipulate the paper I use different media and techniques in processes that render each piece truly unique. The sculptures all take shape organically; from initial idea to finished artwork nothing is forced into being. I let the paper lead the way.

Sara Stode Winter

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Carl Rowe

Carl Rowe studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating with an MA in 1985. He currently lives in Norwich and is a former Associate Professor and Course Leader in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. He is an artist member and studio holder at OUTPOST in Norwich and is also a member of the Printmakers Council. Carl Rowe has an international profile as both an artist and an academic. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK as well as in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Canada, US, Estonia, Japan, Malaysia and Egypt. In addition to studio production he has also worked on public art including billboards, print portfolios and hospital art. In 2018 Rowe was commissioned by Hospital Rooms to make work for Woodlands Mental Health Unit at Ipswich Hospital and is currently engaged in a new project with Hospital Rooms.

“My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings.

I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity. When I ease off the direct engagement with current affairs, symbols, objects and graphic devices float up from somewhere in my memory and arrange themselves in unlikely compositions.”

Carl Rowe works with both paint, sculpture and print process. The materials that I use are often intrinsically connected with the images they portray such as the work Drool, an installation made with ink containing herbs and spices from the G20 countries and the Serbian paprika used in Deprecated Location, a screen print depicting Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Recent paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints present an obsession with clay pipe fragments, hazard warnings, cylindrical containers and clouds of particulates.

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Categories:

Paintings
Prints
Sculptures
Installations

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Mediums
Paintings on Canvas, Panel and Paper
Sculpture – Mixed Mediums, Recycled Materials and Wood

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Carl Rowe - Exceeding the Limits of the Box

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

Carl Rowe

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Jonathan Page

Jonathan Page is driven by a desire to explore the boundaries between an aesthetic, harmonic perfection and the inherent imperfection of human creation. He celebrates the intricacies of artisanal craft within an increasingly mechanised world, incorporating visceral and instinctive approaches toward his art. He endeavours to explore ideas of purity and perfection within the boundaries of human consciousness.

Jonathan Page specialises in modern abstract sculptures finished in clay, fibreglass, bronze and steel.
“My sculptures are concerned with harmony, the natural world, aesthetics and beauty. I believe these concepts and phenomena are crucial to the integrity of art.”

Jonathan’s work is collected internationally and held in numerous private collections.

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Categories:

Sculpture
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Ceramic
Metal-Cast
Metal-Coldcast
Resin

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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My sculptures are concerned with harmony, the natural world, aesthetics and beauty. I believe these concepts and phenomena are crucial to the integrity of art.

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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.”

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Tom Waugh

Tom Waugh MRSS is a British sculptor based in Somerset. He has been an associate member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2018. In 2005 he gained a First in Architectural Stone Carving at the City and Guilds of London Art School and has spent time in India studying traditional carving techniques with the temple carver Raja Saceran.

‘I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.’

Tom Waugh carves stone and marble in minute detail to mirror the discarded waste of human consumption. These objects document the tiny imprints of human use. Plastic bags, cardboard boxes and tin cans are squashed, crushed and wrinkled whilst still displaying the traces of mass production.

His carving can be seen on St Pancras Station, St Martin in the fields and St Georges Chapel, Windsor. His Sculptures are exhibited widely and can be seen in the collections of Warwick University and Gladstone’s Library.

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Categories:

Sculpture

Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Medium:

Stone

Subject Matter:

Hyper-Realistic
Still Life

Tom Waugh - Stone Carving in 'Leaving' by Nicholas Dimbleby

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I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.

Tom Waugh

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Louise Plant

Louise Plant creates sculpture inspired by the dynamics of movement. She works with marble, stone, bronze, cast iron and steel and has a particular feel for the direction the material wants to go. Her sculptures are visually striking with a wonderful sense of aliveness and  character.

Louise studied sculpture with the Open College of the Arts in 1992, whilst working full time as a teacher. Leaving teaching in 1994, Louise continued to study and make sculpture. She was elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2003 and became Fellow in 2014.

Louise Plant has exhibited widely including MOCA, Cheeseburn Grange, Asthall Manor, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, the Usher and Wysing Arts.

Awards include the Brian Mercer Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy, the KKV Bohuslän Scholarship, Sweden and the Year of the Artist Award, Arts Council England.

Her work is held in private collections globally and she has been commissioned by the MOD Northwood, the RNIB Loughborough, Durham County Council, Somerset County Council and the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Prints

Mediums:

Drawing
Prints – Screenprints
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated
Sculpture – Stone

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Pierre Diamantopoulo

Pierre Diamantopoulo has two distinct strands to his figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

One is a cool and measured response to a profound sense of unrest. In this work, figures fly in defiance or are challenged by their environments. They ‘trippingly’ negotiate upheaval or uncertainties — each work is a balancing act, a metaphor for a precarious state of living or existence. Androgynous and anonymous human figures tilt and fall away – on and off objects that also teeter on a chaotic or shifting stage. Figures may be set free against strongly convergent lines, shapes and forms.

The other strand of Pierre Diamantopoulo’s practice is ambiguous, allegorical and atavistic, but still concerned with mercurial forces. Here, he works on impulse— mixing dark foolery, the poetic and the literary with theatre and folklore— blended with a sort of logical nonsense. This may be a voyage into the past, personal or absurd, diverted by the raw and primitive, with the wit, the mimic and maverick on board. These works are often executed with an immediate, freer hand, exploiting the texture of the raw material.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Paintings

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Metal-Cast Sculpture
Metal-Fabricated Sculpture
Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Portrait/Figurative

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Once I sat Upon a Promontory

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Flight of Langoustine

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There are two distinct strands to my figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

Pierre Diamantopoulo

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Dorothy Brook

Dorothy Brook became a sculptor in a roundabout way. She had studied Graphic Design at St Martins School of Art and worked as a freelance designer for about 10 years. When circumstances changed, a friend suggested she join a sculpture class. She loved it having no idea that she would be able to work in three dimensions having been used to seeing everything from a graphic and linear perspective.

To her surprise her graphic background gave her work a very different look. The lines and curves have to flow when viewed from every angle. The form is pared down until all that is left is its essence. Ultimately the aesthetic of the piece is the most important element.

Although Dorothy may start a sculpture with an armature and an idea of what she is going to make, it very often changes during the process. It is the sculpture that dictates where it is going and she follows, refining the lines as it progresses. Usually working in plaster as she finds it is easier to achieve the sharp edges and smooth surfaces that define her style. ‘I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.’

Dorothy Brook still loves the process as much as she did in that first sculpture class. The realisation that her drawings can and have come to life is very satisfying, not bad for a Graphic Designer!

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Categories:

Sculpture
Paintings

Sculpture Types:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Resin
Painting on Paper
Pastels
Drawing

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Figurative
Landscape

Selected Exhibitions:

Wizo/Ben Uri Gallery – London
Waterstone Gallery – Birmingham
24 London – Berlin, Barcelona & Milan
Expression of Movement – Grove Hotel – Watford
Great British Sculpture Show – Hatfield House
Henley Art Festival

Selected Commissions:

Winterthur House – London
Unilever – London
Compaq – London
Maughan Library Garden, Kings College – London
WIZO – London
Hong Kong Finance – Hong Kong

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'I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.'

Dorothy Brook

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Susan Andreae

Susan Andreae is a sculptor and printmaker based in London.

Having grown up in London, she is fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

She also travels frequently to Southern Italy and is inspired by the simplicity of the ancient architecture and colours of the Mediterranean.

Ideas evolve for Susan Andreae from things she sees and experiences and always from drawings made in situ, which start the creative process. She then experiments with techniques of layering using multiple images superimposed to arrive at a final image, eluding to the passing of time and historical change.

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Categories:

Prints
Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Prints – Artist-Etchings
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Concrete/Plaster/Ceramic

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Landscape
Urban

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Having grown up in London, I am fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

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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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Categories:

Sculpture
Installations
Accessories

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture Metal-Fabricated
Gilding

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Natural Forms

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My 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.

Claire Malet

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Mark Beattie MRSS

Mark Beattie MRSS is a British award winning sculptor who lives and works in London.

In 2015, Mark won the Midlands Open, The Xerxes Sculpture Prize and was elected a Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS). In 2017 Mark was shortlisted for the Open Contemporary Young Artist Award run by the Biscuit Factory Gallery in Newcastle and long-listed for The Secret Art Prize by Curious Duke Gallery and also for the international Rise Art Prize.

Working with various metals in all their contrasting properties of texture and finish, Mark can make industrial materials appear fluid, malleable and delicate. He continues to study different metals, looking at ways to manipulate and add movement to the material.

Over the past 3 years Mark has been developing ways in which neon and LED’s can complement his sculptures, adding to the movement of a piece and catching the viewer’s eye.

Mark has a strong academic background in art, having studied a BA Hons (International) in Contemporary Art Practice at Leeds University, with a period at the Australian National University at Canberra, and after an MA in European Arts Practice at Kingston University, Surrey. To date he has now exhibited in over 60 exhibitions, solo and group and has a strong following from collectors both in the UK and abroad.

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Categories:

Sculpture
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Light

Subject Matter:

Abstract

2018-Commissioned by Art Contact for the London Digestive Clinic

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019 – London Art Fair
2019 – Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2019 – The Other Art Fair
2018 – London Art Fair
2018 – Capital Club, Dubai
2018 – Eight from Nyne, Park Lane, London
2018 – Henley Festival
2017 – Young Artist Award
2017 – ‘Orbital’, Cafe Royal Hotel, London
2017 – The Other Art Fair, London
2016 – Artists of the Future, London
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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

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My sculptures are concerned with harmony, the natural world, aesthetics and beauty. I believe these concepts and phenomena are crucial to the integrity of art.

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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.”

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I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.

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There are two distinct strands to my figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

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'I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.'

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Having grown up in London, I am fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

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My 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.

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I strive to make industrial materials appear fluid, malleable and delicate and continue to study different metals, looking at ways to manipulate and add movement to the material.

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