Scholars & Artists

Founded by Matt Empringham and Freddy Coomes, the brand draws from a hands-on culture of making.A letter embraces the amateur, believing that not knowing can lead somewhere new. Historical dress is misread and reworked, not replicated. The process starts with...
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Amelia Cross is an artist whose practice bridges painting, pattern-cutting, and sewing. Following an early career in tailoring and womenswear design, Amelia investigates how garments shape identity and social systems, merging the craft of pattern- cutting with painting to create...
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Tom Hallimond is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores care and lived experience. His work reflects on the quiet resilience and human effort required to adapt during times of upheaval, particularly the isolation and uncertainty experienced during the global shutdown...
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TORISHÉJU, founded by Torishéju Dumi, is a womenswear and menswear label redefining contemporary fashion through the study of shape, form, and fabric, blending timelessness with urgency. Each collection challenges the familiar, introducing friction and vitality through surreal reinterpretations of structure...
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George Wilkin works primarily in large-format oil paintings, exploring the tension between the finality of form and its continual undoing in motion. Whether addressing physical forms or ideas that have achieved cultural fixity, the work investigates the point at which...
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