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The Shop Floor Project works with a wonderful array of designers, artists and makers to design, develop and commission extraordinary collections.

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    CATS

    SUSAN HALLS | Sculpting the feline form

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      KOSUKE AJIRO

      Gods, Dreams & Fairytales

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        FOLKTALE TILES

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          ARTISTS' CUSHIONS

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            TRADE PLATES

            Delftware Plates by Carlo Briscoe

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            SUSAN HALLS

            SUSAN HALLS

            Hot off the heels from an outstanding solo exhibition at the Ruthin Craft Centre last year, we eagerly commissioned Susan Halls to create a new collection of her celebrated hand built ceramic cats for The Shop Floor Project.

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            Susan Halls’ work is represented in several public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Centre of Ceramic Art in York and the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Japan. It has also just been announced that Halls is one of the ten selected artists to exhibit new work for the headline exhibition at the 2025 British Ceramics Biennial. 

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            Almost life-size, these hand-built sculptures are a celebration of the material as much as the subject. The way Susan Halls animates through clay is extraordinary, and the painterly glazes of the different fur patterns have the same delicious energy as the tactile hand-built nature of the clay.

            A primitive, animalistic energy bursts from Halls’ work, and there is an ongoing search, within the making and use of the material, to explore animal behaviour.

            “My work has always sought the form and feeling rather than the mere appearance of things. I’m trying to create a sculpture which traps a kind of animal truth.”

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            PROTEST PLATES

            PROTEST PLATES

            Rachael House has created a collection of her celebrated Protest Plates. These large hand-made platters are decorated in her signature fish-scale and cross-hatched patterns with words written in a 14th century style font that bears a similarity to the apothecary jars of medieval Italy.

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            KOSUKE AJIRO

            KOSUKE AJIRO

            A collection of new paintings by Japanese artist Kosuke Ajiro

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            FOLKTALE TILES

            FOLKTALE TILES

            Come on a journey with British artist and ceramicist Edith Morris as she takes us, back through the mists of time, to folktales from Celtic Britain, ancient eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Iceland.

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            STORIES, MYTHS & LEGENDS

            STORIES, MYTHS & LEGENDS

            Inspired by the ancient craft of pargetting, a type of lime plaster decoration applied to the outside of houses in medieval England. The decoration often depicted local folklore such as the legendary figures of Tom Hickathrift and the Wisbech Giant.

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            Looking over the whole collection, it’s as though we have stumbled across an ancient inn in the forest which is tiled in these stories of local legends, mythical beasts and strange woodland plants.

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            THE NIGHT FOREST

            THE NIGHT FOREST

            The Night Forest is a collection of new paintings by Denise Allan, featuring woodland animals, birds and flowers.

            These exquisite paintings on board are painted to resemble the inlay of shells, marble and polished gemstones used in a technique called pietra dura that was made popular throughout Renaissance Italy.

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            Tulip & Woodland Dianthus

            Tulip & Woodland Dianthus

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            THE SEED GATHERER

            THE SEED GATHERER

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            Delftware TRADE PLATES

            Delftware TRADE PLATES

            British ceramicist Carlo Briscoe has created a collection of Trade Plates exclusively for The Shop Floor Project.

            Like shop window displays, each hand made plate is packed with the most charming details. Around the edge, within the border, the four vignettes display further motifs relating to the trade or hobby.

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            CATCHING THE EYE

            CATCHING THE EYE

            These beautiful plates and platters by Carlo Briscoe are reminiscent of peering into a doll’s house, keep looking and see what delights you can find.

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            THE BUTCHER

            THE BUTCHER

            Depicting the tools of their trade, these large plates were often finished with a highly
            decorative floral border, designed to catch the eye of passing trade.

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            ARTISTS' CUSHIONS

            ARTISTS' CUSHIONS

            We have worked with our textile printers in Staffordshire to create a collection of beautiful cushions, all piped and backed in fabric which is carefully dyed to match the artwork

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            KOSUKE AJIRO

            KOSUKE AJIRO

            Kosuke Ajiro's new cushion collection features five of his paintings inspired by medieval scrolls, tapestries, frescoes, quilts, folk-lore and dreams.

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            PAPER CUTS

            PAPER CUTS

            New designs have been added to Sarah Battle's very popular cushions. Featuring her paper-cut collages and printed onto organic cotton that has a beautiful satin warp to give it a slight feeling of silk. The expert textile printing means the colours and textures are as detailed as the original collages.

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            ARTIST PRINTS

            ARTIST PRINTS

            Explore our significant collection of signed, limited edition prints by contemporary artists made exclusively for The Shop Floor Project to museum archival standards.

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            LIMITED EDITION

            LIMITED EDITION

            For almost twenty years we have been working with artists from around the world to develop original works of art specifically for our Artists' Print range. These works are then expertly reproduced by our Fine Art Trade Guild accredited printers in England to the highest standards and colour depth.

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            FRAMED WITH LOVE

            FRAMED WITH LOVE

            If you choose to have your print framed, you can be assured of the highest quality delivered right to your door. Our skilled framers in England use wood which comes from forests that are managed to strict environmental, social, and economic standards by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

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            CARVING STORIES

            CARVING STORIES

            A new collection of large wall tiles by Matt Loughlin, a traditionally trained stone carver and letter-cutter based in Somerset. 

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            BOOK OF HOURS

            BOOK OF HOURS

            In these new works, Kosuke Ajiro has created a contemporary Book of Hours, in which he documents and celebrates the fictitious events in the daily lives of his imagined characters; myths, stories, births and marriages, the weather, festivals and mysterious messages are all recorded within these works.

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            COMMISSION A WORK OF ART

            COMMISSION A WORK OF ART

            Did you know about our very popular commissioning process?

            If you see an object that you would like, but it has sold out, we can commission a similar piece for you.

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