Commissioned as part of the first Relay Design Projects Collection - the focus of the selected artists was the independent craftsperson. Here the individual interprets their surroundings through the lens of the studio, harnessing technology to push the boundaries of craft, developing originality in material, process and application. 

Collectively the resulting works, although all produced independently, focus on the surface tensions of material production. Often the methods utilised co-opt the processes of industrial mass-production and appropriate this language into the artist’s studio. The results of these shifts are works whose focus lie in penetrating the depth and complexity of the material’s surface.