This piece by Mary Ann Simmons is typical of her experimentation with the simple box form to create unique and original silver works. 

Responding to our curatorial theme for Collect 2025 -  'Black &Gold' - she developed these tall faceted 'pinstripe' forms to take advantage of the dramatic of contrast of gold accents against a black background. 

Shown here individually and in a group, Pinstripe Vessel (2) is one of a series of works that can be purchased seperately or as a triptych as shown below.   

Responding to our curatorial theme for Collect 2025 -  'Black &Gold' - Mary Ann developed these tall faceted 'pinstripe' forms to take advantage of the dramatic contrast of gold accents against a black background. 

Typical of her 'box' form designs, these multifaceted forms can be purchased individually or as a group as shown below. 

A hand made circular wall piece in black , white and soft blues. 

To meet the curatorial theme,  Verity created this piece in beautiful monotones with mystical and gothic overtones.  Inspired by the forms and organisms found in nature, this work is typical of Pulford's signature work, but presented in a new and distinctive colour palette.   

These textile sculptures by Michelle Griffiths are created from Japanese toothpicks bound in a beautiful cream silk and tipped with gold varnish.

From a series of work entitled Cross Pollination, this tryptych was created for Collect 2025, to showcase Michelle Griffith's skill as a Shibori artist, where she pushes the boundaries of traditional Shibori techniques to create unique sculptures with an organic, subterranean quality.   

With the addition of a brooch pin, each sculpture can be transformed into a dramatic piece of wearable art. 

A beautiful decorative wall piece inspired by the waterfalls of Wales.

'Rhaeadr' translates as waterfall or cascade and this piece captures the movement of the water as it plummets over a sheer shelf of rock to a pool below. 

The patination cleverly captures the rich flora and fauna of the surrounding rock and its architectural structure.

This work was created specifically for Collect 2025 and is a departure from the work for which Higson is more widely known. But her fascination and love for the mountainous terrain of North Wales underpins this piece, the meticulous detail typical of her work and key to capturing the beauty and mystique of the waterfall and its environs. 

Barely There (2) - a ceramic sculpture created from a hand woven metal mesh dipped in ceramic slip and fired at high temperature to create the distortions seen within the sculpture. 

With an almost ethereal quality, the sculptures are both beautiful, beguiling and thought provoking.

A response to the curatorial brief of Black and Gold, Barely There (2) is part of a continuing series of work where Petersen draws our attention, through art, to the fragility of our built environment and the experience of many as they live on the edge of safety in inadequate housing. 

Drawing attention to these issues is a fundamental element of Petersen's work, but in doing so she creates pieces of intricate detail and with the meticulous attention to detail and experimentation that is typical of this emerging and gifted ceramicist. 

A ‘hand woven’ sculpture shaped by the heat of the kiln to bring the viewer inside the built environment. 

Petersen 'builds' the internal structure to her work by weaving a metal fabric which she then dips into ceramic slip - the sculptural distortions created within the kiln as the metal reacts to the intense heat of firing.  

Ruth uses her work to draw attention to the fragility of our constructed world and Night Time Dreams, created for Collect 2025, highlights the inadequacies and inequalities of our current housing system. 

The black crystals and gold leaf are a specific addition to her work for Collect 2025 and reflect her constant experimentation with materials to amplify her story through these beautiful and fragile sculptures. 

A ‘hand woven’ sculpture shaped by the heat of the kiln to bring the viewer inside the built environment. 

To create these delicate sculptures, Petersen weaves a metal ‘fabric’ dipped in a ceramic slip. The sculptural distortions result from the intense heat of firing, so that the pieces are always unique, unexpected and uncomfortable - confronting us with the fragility of our constructed world through sculptures of a rare and delicate beauty. 

Created for Collect 2025, Night Time Dreams is one of an ongoing series of sculptures created by Petersen to highlight the inadequacies and inequalities of our current housing system. 

With the addition of black crystals and gold highlights to meet our curatorial theme of Black and Gold, she extends that conversation to denote the mould that creeps across the surface of inadequate housing, but adds gold to reflect the hope for change.