Issue No. 234, January/February
Celebrating its first anniversary, Studio Manifold is a collective of nine RCA graduates who have discovered that there is strength in numbers
In an extract from her new book ‘On Jewellery’, Liesbeth den Besten explains why all that glitters is not necessarily gold
Emma Love meets lighting designer Alex Randall whose work combines rawhide, hot air ballooning and Freddie Mercury
And as the shape of things, a two-year scheme celebrating the many facets of British identity, draws to a close, Emma Crichton Miller meets silversmith Chien-Wei Chang and assesses the project’s impact
Front
Features
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Nine Lives
Celebrating its first anniversary, Studio Manifold is a collective of nine RCA graduates who have discovered that there is strength in numbers. By Teleri Lloyd-Jones
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Hide Fidelity
Alex Randall is a lighting designer, artist and maker whose work often features taxidermy. But, asks Emma Love, what’s with the Freddie Mercury statue?
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Reviews
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Lost in Lace
Released: 4 January 2012
Gas Hall,
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
29 October 2011 – 19 February 2012
Reviewed by Mary Schoeser - Read more
The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
Released: 4 January 2012
British Museum, WC1B
6 October 2011 – 19 February 2012
Reviewed by Shane Enright
Back
Letterpress and laughter in Blackpool; Archive: in 1981, Tony Birks discussed Gordon Baldwin’s challenging ceramics; gallerist Matthew Hall on the things that inspire him
And finally, Tanya Harrod thinks aloud on the future of the 3D printer






