Studio Glithero

Blueware

20—29 May, 10am—6pm

The Garage, 2 North Terrace, SW3 2BA

www.studioglithero.com

Photograph by Petr Krejci.

Studio Glithero, the Anglo–Dutch design studio of Sarah van Gameren and Tim Simpson, presents a new collection entitled Blueware, in the Brompton Design District.

Blueprinting is an early photographic technique that is most commonly known as a way to make copies of architectural plans. Studio Glithero have created a process that develops ceramics like photographs, by infusing them with light sensitive chemicals and then exposing them to ultra violet light.

Using flower age–old botanical collecting techniques, humble weeds of inner London borough pavements are pressed, dried and attached to the surface of the ceramics. The objects are exposed under UV light, which transforms them from white to intense Prussian blue. What remains is a crisp white silhouette of the specimens, creating intricate floral designs of the plant life from root to tip.

The Blueware collection is made possible with the support of the Vauxhall Collective.

May 2010