Originally trained in textile design, Susanne Wellm shifted her artistic focus when she discovered the world of photography. She now combines photography and weaving, creating familiar, often unassuming, fragments of reality into multilayered poetic spaces. Images are scanned and digitally edited before printing. Drawing on her textile background, she then cuts the image into thin strips, weaving these into threads while incorporating knots and loose strands. This allows her to create compositions that are rich in texture and depth, meaningful moments that remain open to interpretation, reflecting our ongoing search for meaning between ourselves and the world.

Akiko Hirai is an acclaimed ceramic artist known for her expressive and dynamic approach to the moon jar. She first became captivated by it after encountering an 18th-century moon jar at the British Museum once owned by Bernard Leach and later Lucie Rie. Where traditional Moon Jars express their details in subtle, whispered textures, Hirai’s surfaces burst with dynamic energy. Her signature form begins with a carefully thrown lower half, followed by a coiled upper half. This is the starting point for her sculptural exploration.

Together, these artists weave stories of past and present in different worlds.