Laurie Britton Newell is a Senior Curator at Wellcome Collection where she recently curated On Happiness (2021) and Somewhere in Between (2018). She previously ran a rural curatorial platform and taught at the University of Colorado in the USA. Prior to that she worked as a curator at the V&A Museum where she curated critically acclaimed exhibitions such as Memory Palace (2013), Make Lab (2011), 1:1: Architects Build Small Spaces (2010) and Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft (2008).
Lilah Fowler is a British-Japanese artist, born and based in London, whose recent work has included working with algae, fungi, clay, weaving and digitally generated patterns. Recent exhibitions include ‘Desde el Salon’, Whitechapel Gallery, ‘My Kid Could’ve Done That’, Holbourne Museum, Bath, and ‘Code Clay, Data Dirt’, First Site, Colchester.
Jahday Ford is a recent graduate from The Manchester School of Art specialising in hot glass and mould design. Using the combination of glass blowing and digital design the materiality of his glass objects changes radically, effectively bonding these two diverse fields. His award winning project 'Breathe' has been exhibiting in galleries around the country including New Designers, London Design Junction, The Corning Museum of Glass, Manchester Craft & Design Centre and The National Centre for Craft & Design based in Lincolnshire.
Eva Rothschild was born in Dublin, Ireland, 1971 and currently lives and works in London. Since 2014, was elected RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Eva represented Ireland at La Biennale di Venezia, 58th International Art Exhibition 2019 and was awarded the 13th Robert Jacobsen Prize for sculpture 2019. Recent public commissions include ‘My World and Your World’ 2020 for The King’s Cross Project, London, the forthcoming ‘Double Rainbow’ for The Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin and Saddler’s Wells East Bank, Stratford, London both due for completion 2022.
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Craft-tech is programmed by New Contemporaries in collaboration with South London Gallery and Camberwell College of Arts, and is supported by New Contemporaries Bridget Riley Artists’ Professional Development Programme
