Makers Create

In 2019 we marked our fifteenth anniversary by commissioning a special exhibition of artwork by Makers, called Makers Create. The event – held to celebrate our employees’ creative endeavours outside of the office – was a huge success, with more than 40 works displayed in a bespoke gallery in our London studio.

To kick off the New Year, we have decided to reprise the event digitally, to celebrate some of the work created by our team during the lockdowns of 2020. Here in this virtual gallery, you’ll find a range of creations, from ceramics to paintings to crafts, all channelling the artistic energy that bolsters our thinking as a practice.

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Alex Stewart

Handmade marquetry box.
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Anca Bodea

From Japan

Collage/painting featuring stones collected from the Kamo River in Kyoto, Japan.

“I collect mundane things from places I travel to and find ideas to transform them into art. This one resembles a riverbed, a waterfall or a path.”

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Atim Kilama-Oceng

Shape, Space and Light

Architectural render exploring the intimate relationship between space, shape and light.

Ben Hutchings and Tom Ushakov

Time (Orchestra Version) music video

“This is our entry into an international competition run by composer Hans Zimmer to reinterpret his score, ‘Time’, from the film Inception. Our video is a fragmented portrait of a city in lockdown, with themes of isolation, reflection and time running through. We wanted the video to portray the feeling of a fleeting memory, a journey blurred in the passage of time, through the use of multiple locations, a mysterious central figure and various visual effects.”

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Charlie Pye

Branch realm

Initial rendering for a lockdown project that reimagines a tree branch at a larger scale, functioning as a realm for humans to explore and dwell.

“The project explores biomimicry as a way to soften our public realm and embed them in nature.”

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Dana Gorbatiuc

Embroidery created using traditional techniques Dana learned in Romania.
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Dana Gorbatiuc

Howl’s Moving Castle

Watercolour of Howl’s Moving Castle, Dana’s favourite animation.
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Grigor Grigorov

Future Health

Artworks for a short animation co-created with innovation consultancy Elluminate, exploring how future technologies will augment the traditional healthcare journey.

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Kalliopi Kousouri
Quarantined Life


Hand-cut out of white paper on black background, "quarantine life" is a project depicting the daily routines of different people during lockdown periods in 2020.

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Katie Cunningham and Charlie Pye
The Attractor


Winning entry of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures’ 2020 sculpture competition. The sculpture is made of six glue-laminated elements with discrete connections, supported with tension cables, and secured to the ground with helical piles. Planning permission is currently pending at Surrey University’s new campus buildings.

“The brief required us to respond to the subject of climate change. The design – created in collaboration with engineer Volodymyr Opanasiuk – is a three-dimensional representation of the deterministic chaos theory, which was developed by Edward Lorenz in the 1960s. It is a call to recognise the fragility of the world we live in. We must appreciate that small actions now, both positive and negative, can lead to vast differences in the future."

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Ken Shuttleworth

Lockdown Blue

Acrylic on MDF
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Ken Shuttleworth

Lockdown Red

Acrylic on MDF
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Martina Ferrera and Giuditta Turchi
London After Work


Online account and photographs from a series documenting the meals Londoners make after a busy day at work.
www.instagram.com/london.after.work

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Matthew Bugg

Triangular backyard playhouse constructed using rectangular plywood panels arranged on an A-frame.

“Featuring a climbing apparatus, a viewing porthole and an elevated deck base, this is a cosy den space for my kids to gather and share.”
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