Rotunda: Large  Rotunda: Medium Rotunda: Small Rotunda: Extra Small ​ Medium Grey Glass Vessel Small Grey Glass Vessel ​ Caged ​ Blown glass with steel grid wire

Spanning over both weeks One Year In provides a platform for new design talent to show and sell their work. As well as the support One Year in offers to the emerging creatives, it gives visitors an opportunity to purchase work, meet the makers and take inspiration from the next generation of design. Curated in 2019 by Emily Skinner the lineup covered every corner of design creativity and saw designers responding to some of the most important challenges of our time, from sustainability to social care.   Coiled 1​ Coiled 2 Coiled 3 ​ Rotunda: Large  Rotunda: Medium Rotunda: Small Rotunda: Extra Small ​ Ringway: Large Ringway: Medium Ringway: Small ​ Blown glass with steel grid wire

Members of the Contemporary Glass Society (CGS) will show work inspired by “an object of personal significance” for a juried exhibition. Many of the country’s foremost glass artists will be presenting dynamic new and original pieces. My inspiration for Coiled 2 was the Rotunda being built in 1963. Birmingham’s architectural, industrial and manufacturing heritage informs my work conceptually and aesthetically, using a restricted colour palette of greys to bring this to the foreground. To create my work, I use an experimental approach to traditional cage blowing. I am actively investigating my personal heritage within Birmingham as well as my grandparents’ histories with the materials that we share a passion for and how this influences my practice. My grandfather worked at Metal Spinners Birmingham and my great-grandfather was a glassblower for Chance Brothers and Company, once a leading glass manufacturer and pioneer of British glassmaking technology in Smethwick, Birmingham.​ Coiled 2...

Mint starts the summer with a bright show ‘Mosaic’ presenting over 30 designers. Internationally recognised designers such as Piet Hein Eek, Dirk van der Kooij and Established & Sons among others are exhibited alongside new talent, carefully selected for their sustainable and inventive approach to craft and design. The exhibition gives an overview of a varied collection that explores innovative material choices with outstanding results.   Large Grey Glass Sculpture (SOLD) Medium Grey Glass Vessel with Skeleton (SOLD) Large Wire Skeleton ​ Blown glass with steel grid wire ​

The Open is Leicester’s longstanding open art exhibition which explores the abundance of creativity that courses through the East Midlands and provides you with the opportunity to show your own artwork. The exhibition showcases art and crafts made by artists and makers from the East Midlands. It celebrates the richness and diversity of the region and includes a vast array of exciting artwork from painting, prints, textiles and sculpture.   POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE (2018)​ Blown glass with steel grid wire

Mint celebrates its 20th anniversary during LDF 2018. For this special occasion Lina Kanafani is delighted to present TRANS-FORM with an exciting collection of material-focused designers. Over 60 emerging and established international designers, as well as a selection of the latest UK graduates, make this innovative show. Along with the Brompton Design District BDD Mint focuses on Material Consequences by zooming in on the transformative power of materials and methods that will re-think our relationship with objects. Taking sustainability and functionality a step further and showing how designers of today are altering the state of matter through the design process.   Large Grey Glass Sculpture  (SOLD) Grey Glass Sculpture (SOLD) Medium Grey Glass Vessel with Skeleton (SOLD) Large Wire Skeleton

Full of disruptive thinking, ambitious ideas and fresh approaches, New Designers presents the work of 3,000 hand-picked graduate design talents from around the country. Taking place at London’s Business Design Centre, the show explores every discipline of modern making. Great design shapes the human experience, and new perspectives push us forward.   Large Grey Glass Sculpture  (SOLD) Medium Grey Glass Sculpture  (SOLD) Medium Grey Glass Vessel with Skeleton (SOLD) Small Grey Glass Vessel (SOLD) Large Wire Skeleton Small Wire Skeleton ​ Blown glass with steel grid wire