Artisan Bristol

Ceramicists, glass blowers, upholsterers
Bristol is the hub of the South West England and a city that thrives on creativity. Often hailed as the UK’s best place to live, Bristol is a dynamic city and is seeing a surge of designer/ makers choosing to live and work there. Artisan Bristol is the culmination of interviews and studio visits with 25 of Bristols finest makers and reveals their personal relationship to the city and how it influences their work. Each profile contains a selection of beautiful images capturing the the wares and offers an intimate portrait of the makers at work in their studio. The profiles look at artists using ceramics, weaving, furniture design, leatherwork, jewellery and many more. AUTHOR: Sophie Rees is the director of Designers Makers, an agency for contemporary design based throughout the UK, she also runs the successful Bristol Artisan and London Artisan, hosting an array of fantastic designers and makers of artisanal produce. Sophie has a fine arts degree from the University of Brighton and lives in Bristol.
120 colour images