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Glasgow Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Jeweller to showcase nature-inspired work at Glasgow market
Jane Harrison, who works from The Briggait Wasps studio in Glasgow, will exhibit her latest creations at the Tea Green Summer Design Market, taking place at The Burrell Collection in Glasgow on August 2 and 3. Now in its 11th year, Tea Green Events has grown into one of Scotland's leading events for independent designers and makers and will feature around 60 exhibitors. Read more: New mural takes shape on side of Southside Paesano Jane, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, said: "My jewellery is born from a love of nature and a passion for collecting and curating natural objects, things I find on walks around Glasgow and further afield. "I'm constantly inspired by the shapes, textures and colours I see in parks like Pollok and Mugdock, or along the shores of Luss and Loch Lomond." Her early collections drew from her garden, often incorporating natural elements such as seed pods and twigs, some of which she casts directly into silver. Her latest pieces, which will debut at The Burrell, include earrings inspired by fledgling sparrows and tiny frogs from her garden pond. Jane has been a regular participant in Tea Green's Glasgow events since the very first market. She said: "Tea Green is the only market I attend regularly. "The standard is always high, and the locations are incredible, places I'd never otherwise have the opportunity to exhibit in. "I also love meeting buyers face-to-face, sharing the story behind my work, and often reconnecting after the event for bespoke commissions. "It's also a brilliant space for creatives to connect, collaborate, and support each other, especially as we navigate rising costs and other industry challenges." Founded in 2014 by Dundee-based jeweller Joanne MacFadyen, Tea Green Events began at the Glasgow School of Art's Student Union and has grown into a national platform for Scottish creatives. Joanne said: "Tea Green owes everything to Glasgow, having held our very first market at the Student Union of Glasgow School of Art. "Having grown up in East Kilbride, I also have personal memories of visiting both The Burrell Collection and Kelvingrove, first as a child and then later as an artist and creative. "Returning to these beautiful, iconic venues with Scotland's most talented designers is an absolute privilege." Read more: Glasgow artist pays tribute to music legends ahead of huge reunion gigs Lauren Rhodes, commercial development and programming manager at Glasgow Life, highlighted the value of the partnership. She said: "Tea Green is a fantastic example of what happens when cultural spaces and creative communities work together. "It has been a real privilege to develop this partnership with Tea Green at Glasgow Life, helping independent designers connect with museum visitors while delivering a high-quality public event. "Events like these support Scotland's independent creative economy and generate vital income for the museums service. "They also help our cultural spaces feel relevant, welcoming, and meaningfully connected to the wider arts and design community in Scotland." The Tea Green Summer Design Market at The Burrell Collection will run from 10am to 5pm on August 2 and from 11am to 5pm on August 3.
Fashion United
21-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
Lidewij Edelkoort keynotes TEX+ 2025 awards in the UK
The TEX+ 2025 Awards were announced last night at the Triangle Building, Chelsea College of Arts, spotlighting the UK's most promising textile graduates. The ceremony, which drew leading figures from the design world including Orla Kiely and Zandra Rhodes, featured a keynote address from renowned trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, marking her first public UK appearance in years. 'The future is incredibly bright,' said Edelkoort, praising a generation of students "courageously confronting the major challenges of our time – rethinking materials, reshaping systems, and reviving crafts." Previously known as Texprint, TEX+ continues its 50-year legacy of supporting emerging talent across fashion, interiors, and materials innovation. This year's finalists were selected from top UK institutions including Central Saint Martins, Glasgow School of Art, and Manchester School of Art. Awards recognised achievements in creativity, sustainability, technical excellence and market potential. Among this year's winners was Beth Lingard of Leeds Arts University, who received multiple prizes including the Sanderson Art in Industry Prize and the Sahara Prize. Amber Fry (Central Saint Martins) took home both the Sustainability Prize and the Mary Restieaux Prize, while Esme Whitton (UWE Bristol) was awarded a mentorship with Liberty Fabrics. Also honoured were Severina Seidl (Royal School of Needlework), Aidan Morris (Glasgow School of Art), and Yingruo Cao (London College of Fashion), among others. TEX+ Chair Jeremy Somers praised the calibre of the 2025 cohort: 'These designers are not only technically skilled but also tackling urgent conversations in design today – from sustainability to identity. The TEX+ prizes are a chance to recognise that, and to help propel these voices into the industry.' TEX+ alumni have gone on to work with leading brands including Chanel, Nike and Liberty, with celebrated designers like Margo Selby and Emma J Shipley among its ranks.
Fashion Network
18-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
TEX+ 2025 announces UK textile award winners
Beth Lingard scooped several prizes at the TEX+ 2025 Awards event recently held at the Chelsea College of Arts in London, with the Leeds Arts University student among some of the UK's top graduating textile designers to receive awards. Presented by trend forecaster Li Edelkoort and attended by Orla Kiely and Zandra Rhodes, the winners were selected from 25 finalists representing institutions also including Central St Martins, Glasgow School of Art, and Manchester School of Art. Lingard scooped the £500 Sanderson Art in Industry Prize, awarded for Commercial & Market Potential, and The Sahara Prize, with a £500 cash award and a one-month placement at Sahara Textiles. She also the won The Pattern Cloud Prize, gaining one-year free access to The Pattern Cloud Graduate Plan. Central Saint Martins ' Amber Fry also won two prizes, the £1,000 TEX+ Trustees' Prize for Sustainability & Ethical Practice, and the Mary Restieaux Prize, which included a private studio visit, mentorship and hand-dyed silk yarns. Other winners were Esme Whitton, UWE Bristol School of Art and Design, who won the Liberty Fabrics Studio Prize, which comes with a studio visit, and three-month mentorship complete with archive access; Winnie Sowter, Edinburgh College of Art, who took the Helga Goldman Prize for Innovation & Creativity and its £1,000 cash prize; Severina Seidl, Royal School of Needlework, won the TEX+ Trustees' Prize for Technical Excellence (also with a £1,000 award); while The Pentland Prize saw two winners of two-month paid design placements at Pentland Brands going to Yingruo Cao, London College of Fashion and Aidan Morris, Glasgow School of Art; meanwhile Asha Vine, Arts University Bournemouth, took the Bay & Brown Prize which included an online floral print course and portfolio session with Tracey Brown. Jeremy Somers, chair of TEX+, said: 'Every year we're amazed by the depth of talent coming through, but the 2025 cohort has truly raised the bar. These designers are not only technically skilled but also tackling some of the most urgent conversations in design today -- from sustainability to storytelling, identity to innovation.' Edelkoort added: 'The future is incredibly bright when I see so many students courageously confronting the major challenges of our time -- rethinking materials, reshaping systems, and reviving crafts. At TEX+, we witness a new generation not just dreaming of change, but designing it.'
The Herald Scotland
18-07-2025
- General
- The Herald Scotland
The Glasgow-based artist that's inspired by 'mudlarking'
'Mum and I would scour beaches looking for curios, such as fragments of pottery, shells, and particularly sea glass. My mother also had a knack for uncovering historic rubbish dumps and instilled in me this love of looking and finding – I like to call it slow meditative scouring,' says Katie. The family moved to Glasgow when Katie was 17 and having long aspired to go to Glasgow School of Art, she undertook a degree course in Sculpture and Environmental Art and graduated in 2017 with First Class Honours in Sculpture. 'When I was in third year GSA acquired a kiln – and I quickly became hooked on clay and its endless possibilities. After graduating, my dad and I built my garden studio and Manifesto was born. 'The name represents a groundwork for new ideas and action, prompting connections with like-minded people,' she adds. Her work has to date been exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy and The Ingram Collection in London. Katie's inspiration comes primarily from the landscape around her studio or on visits to beaches where she mudlarks for anything from ancient artefacts to sea creatures, fossils, stones, shells, feathers, and general flotsam and jetsam. (Image: Katie Rose Johnston) 'So many things – above and below ground – inspire me, and I love having a free rein to play with clay and see where it takes me and what come out of it.' The problem with being a mudlarker and gatherer of curious objects is what to do with them. Many people keep beach finds in a glass jar, but Katie has a more artistic solution she calls Curiosity Clouds: the cloud being a unique sculptural form made up of numerous niches, each one serving as a tiny shelf upon which to display a foraged find. The catalyst for these Curiosity Clouds, came from a visit to Glasgow's Hunterian Museum, where in amongst a display case of insect and bird nests from around the world, Katie spotted a cross-section of a termite mound, which exposed an elaborate network of tunnels and compartments termites use for ventilation and navigation. Working from the centre outward using terracotta crank clay, each of Katie's Curiosity Clouds (priced from £200 up to £500) has its own unique appearance and size and is coated in slip to achieve a variety of earthy hues. 'Arranging found curios in each compartment is a return to childhood playdays, carefully placing each exhibit in its new space, like a curator in a museum,' she says. Mycelium candleholders are another eye-catching fusion of form and function. (Image: Katie Rose Johnston) Inspired by the complex system of roots that connect fungi together deep underground, each individual candleholder encases slender taper candles within an ethereal nest of coils made from terracotta clay with a white slip finish. These range in price from £400 up to £1,200. Manifesto's range is expansive and includes a recent exploration into tableware following a six-week Anagama firing residency at Shiro Oni Studios in the Gunma prefecture in Japan, which culminated in an exhibition of functional tableware mimicking the shapes of petals and leaves, also a series of ceramic platters, dishes and bowls, pinched from balls of dark red clay. Katie's ceramics can be purchased from Bard in Leith ( and periodically direct from her workshop in the southside of Glasgow.
Fashion Network
18-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Network
TEX+ 2025 announces UK textile award winners
Beth Lingard scooped several prizes at the TEX+ 2025 Awards event recently held at the Chelsea College of Arts in London, with the Leeds Arts University student among some of the UK's top graduating textile designers to receive awards. Presented by trend forecaster Li Edelkoort and attended by Orla Kiely and Zandra Rhodes, the winners were selected from 25 finalists representing institutions also including Central St Martins, Glasgow School of Art, and Manchester School of Art. Lingard scooped the £500 Sanderson Art in Industry Prize, awarded for Commercial & Market Potential, and The Sahara Prize, with a £500 cash award and a one-month placement at Sahara Textiles. She also the won The Pattern Cloud Prize, gaining one-year free access to The Pattern Cloud Graduate Plan. Central Saint Martins ' Amber Fry also won two prizes, the £1,000 TEX+ Trustees' Prize for Sustainability & Ethical Practice, and the Mary Restieaux Prize, which included a private studio visit, mentorship and hand-dyed silk yarns. Other winners were Esme Whitton, UWE Bristol School of Art and Design, who won the Liberty Fabrics Studio Prize, which comes with a studio visit, and three-month mentorship complete with archive access; Winnie Sowter, Edinburgh College of Art, who took the Helga Goldman Prize for Innovation & Creativity and its £1,000 cash prize; Severina Seidl, Royal School of Needlework, won the TEX+ Trustees' Prize for Technical Excellence (also with a £1,000 award); while The Pentland Prize saw two winners of two-month paid design placements at Pentland Brands going to Yingruo Cao, London College of Fashion and Aidan Morris, Glasgow School of Art; meanwhile Asha Vine, Arts University Bournemouth, took the Bay & Brown Prize which included an online floral print course and portfolio session with Tracey Brown. Jeremy Somers, chair of TEX+, said: 'Every year we're amazed by the depth of talent coming through, but the 2025 cohort has truly raised the bar. These designers are not only technically skilled but also tackling some of the most urgent conversations in design today -- from sustainability to storytelling, identity to innovation.' Edelkoort added: 'The future is incredibly bright when I see so many students courageously confronting the major challenges of our time -- rethinking materials, reshaping systems, and reviving crafts. At TEX+, we witness a new generation not just dreaming of change, but designing it.'
