Mild Steel Plinths to showcase Artist's work

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We were delighted to be asked to create the metal plinths to showcase work from artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings for their solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück museum in Germany.

Working across film, painting, drawing and performance, the artists address the socio-cultural and political structures that reinforce conservatism and discriminatory practices within and around the LGBTQ+ community.

The exhibition combines a multi-channel sound work with fifteen found dollhouses representing various domestic architectural styles. Sourced in the UK, the houses date from the late 19th century to the present day. Inside represents the artists’ investigation into the relationship between architecture and identity construction, particularly the bourgeois house as a symbol of gendered behaviour, political power and civic duty.

Speakers placed in each dollhouse emit a cacophony of sound, at times acting in unison and at times alone; exploring the full physical and psychological potential of the home as a generator of infinite social relations.

Farer Watch display stands

We were recently asked to produce some watch display stands for the independent British watch company Farer. These included sumptuous dark blue suede fabric covered stands in which to showcase watches fully laid out and invisible watch stands that can be grouped together in the showroom.

Gina Driftwood Window Display

We created a whimsical Summer window for Gina Shoes on Sloane Street with sloping driftwood branches decorating a shoreline. A beautiful palette of turquoise blues and white of the lull of crashing waves showcasing Gina shoes floating effortlessly against the salty breeze.

To create this we stopped by Woodenzone Studio ‘out in the sticks’. The UK’s premier stockist of Natural Driftwood. They also made Gandolfs wizard staff!

Welded Wireframe for Featherstone Building Renovation, EC1

From a simple illustration to welded wireframe. New artwork for the Featherstone building renovation on Old street, EC1.

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GVA Lighting Event Light Arrangement Installation

GVA Lighting recently hosted an evening at the architecturally stunning The Crypt, Trafalgar Square, London. Steeped in culture and history, the venue was equipped with a selection of quirky alcoves, all illuminated using GVA Lighting fixtures.

Make It London helped fabricate the impressive and eye catching flower and light arrangement installation, illuminated using GVA Lighting fittings, for the talented London based, MOS, by Sasha Grigorik.

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Window Display Back Panels

Beautifully crafted back panels made in our Thames Riverside workshop, installed for a window display in Mayfair. This scheme was introduced to give the window an elegant yet simple backdrop to showcase the stores luxurious clothing and products.

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Fun in the Studio

Always a good sport @juliebelindaland

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Spark Sculpture for Trinny London

Beauty brand Trinny London hosted an interactive retail pop-up experience at The Vinyl Factory in London to celebrate the brand's recent skincare launch.

Guests had the chance to meet chief executive Trinny Woodall, who hosted talk sessions with special guests, alongside exploring immersive zones that helped to communicate the benefits of the brand's skincare products.

Visitors entered a sterile room with people wearing white lab coats who gave instructions on how to compile your skincare journey using the Trinny London online tool.

A doorway opened into an indoor garden that was an explosion of colour and vibrance. The first product area was dedicated to cleansers, which were constructed into an installation of a yellow big bang, our Spark sculpture made for the launch.

Image courtesy of Trinny London

Image courtesy of Trinny London

Les LaLanne: Makers of dreams

Had fun installing a mass of cumulonimbus clouds at this huge art exhibition collection ‘les LaLanne: makers of dreams’ by duo Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne. The show is now open at Claridge’s ArtSpace and Ben brown fine art 12 brooks mews, Mayfair. Curated by the magical Italian designer Manfredi Della Gherardesca, the exhibition has a body of over 100 works, including our favourite a bronze cabbage with chicken feet. 28th April-29th July

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The VM and Display Show

World-changing thinkers and innovators all under one roof. The VM and Display Show is the longest-running exhibition for the industry and an excellent place to find inspiration for the year ahead!

Our stall showcased 3D assemblage artwork which paid homage to Picassoʼs ʻThree Musiciansʼ cubist painting originally made in 1921.

We crafted the shapes together, using new materials, tools, and processes that perhaps were not around when the work was originally made. All the shapes are made from sustainable, recycled & creative materials, including mushroom mycelium , valchromat, cork, chipboard, recycled plastic, Formica, doormat coconut hair, old mop string, brass from a trumpet, and more!

Our website has a range of material ideas to help inspire and inform creative build projects, with a special focus on alternative & sustainable materials to choose from.

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Botanical Bodging Workshop and the Festival of Stuff

The Festival of Stuff finale was back last Saturday 25th June and was bursting with delectable making madness. Once again the streets outside the Institute of Making were full of demonstrations and making stations.

Botanical bodging was a hands-on workshop using everyday objects to create and assemble anthropomorphic junk flowers, using upcycled objects collected from rubbish tips and car boot sales. We invited participants to choose objects that resembled the stem, leaf, and petal and attach them together by drilling, screwing, and gluing to create weird and wonderful junk flowers.

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Spring is here

We have created a few displays for Gina Shoes, here you can see our latest Spring theme, creating an inviting optimistic mood to suit the season . To display the shoes here we have used recycled polyester for the clouds and green cast glass-look acrylic shoe stands to support the shoes themselves.

‘Huge thanks!

 Everyone is very happy with the new windows, and they really achieve their objective of feeling fresh.

Michael Allton , Creative director @ Gina Shoes

We make ginormous paintings...

very pleased with these giant paintings we created, including stretching the canvases, framing and installing at 40 Portman Square office reception. Please get in touch if you require help realising your creative art project. We can consult on any type of artwork you would like on your walls! #artfabrication #creativeserivces #make #makeit

Claude LaLanne clouds

Currently we are making a sky full of recycled polyester clouds for the much anticipated surrealist artist Claude Lalanne exhibition at Ben Brown Gallery in April click here for more info . Claude LaLanne was a French artist (1925- 2019) with a surrealist approach, making opulent metal sculptures and strange silverwares, yves Saint Laurent being one of her early patrons.

Come & visit our stall at the VM Display show 2022!

We are located on stall G1a, the business design center is located off Upper Street, Islington London. Everyone is excited because this trade show has not been able to operate since pre covid. Look forward to seeing you there!

CBRE Keir Smith castings

Recently we 3d modelled and cast the iconic Keir Smith stone sculptures that sit outside Henrietta House on Welbeck street. The project is part of the building redesign for the new real estate occupants CBRE. We cad designed + 3d printed the buildings from photos of Keir Smiths prototypes currently sat in the @riba museum, took moulds from the prints then cast the buildings in jesmonite. We also used a new material for the wall tiles, embedding carbon dioxide pellets captured from the air and made into concrete aggregate. This process by OCO technologies transforms co2 into a green growth carbon negative product and makes reference to the CBRE environmental and sustainable governance program. Unbelievably this project took nearly two years to realize going through lockdown and many prototypes. Thanks to @imagistlondon @artinoffices @moreysmith @cbre #jesmonite #sculpture #architecture #thamessidestudios #artfabrication #riba #kiersmith #makethings #creativeservices #make #makeit #makeitlondon

VM Display exhibition 2022

Excited to be part of the visual merchandise and design exhibition in April, please come and visit our stall G1

Upcycled flower sculptures

Recently we have been making flowers made from the ultimate waste material, found objects. Most sustainable materials still take energy to make, upcycling junk is the best way of making a display if you are looking for the least amount of waste ….

Fyodor Pavlov Andreevich: The Large Grey Sculpture

At COLNAGHI 1760 in Mayfair, artists and friends Marina Abramovi, Nico Vascellari, and Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich present a group of new and old works created in response to and presented in dialogue with an array of masterworks spanning the ages from antiquity to the modern era as part of the Humble Works exhibition.

'The Large Grey Sculpture' was constructed for Fyodor Pavlov Andreevich, a visual artist, curator, and theatrical director. It was created as part of the Humble Works exhibition.

Custom made Applique or ‘Hand Sewn’ Flags for The Randolph Hotel

For The Randolph Hotel, a charming historic hotel near Oxford University, we created and hand-made appliqué flags out of a range of different fabrics.

For the custom-made flags, we hemmed and assembled them at our studio before installing them along their prominent stairway.