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Material Matters with Grant Gibson

In Material Matters, host Grant Gibson talks to a designer, maker, artist, architect, engineer, or scientist about a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked and discovers how it changed their lives and careers.Follow us on Instagram @materialmatters.design and our website www.materialmatters.designMaterial Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.

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59:11

Nicole Rycroft on viscose and her mission to save the...

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/11/26

Nicole Rycroft is the founder and executive director of the award-winning environmental not-for-profit, Canopy. Since it launched in 1999, the Vancouver-based organisation has worked with more than 950 companies – including Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Puma – to ‘develop innovative solutions and make their supply chains more sustainable to help protect our world’s remaining ancient and endangered forests’. It started by looking at the book industry and persuading publishers to use more...

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59:56

Mark Hearld on collage.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/11/19

Mark Hearld is an artist and designer who has a fascination with flora and fauna and has worked in a range of different media – including lithographic and linocut prints, painting, ceramics, textiles and tapestry. However, he is best known for his collage pieces. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, he has curated installations and exhibitions at York Art Gallery and Compton Verney and is an avid collector of objects. Over the years, he has been a huge advoca...

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66:18

Todd Bracher on light (and designing Net Positive...

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/11/12

Todd Bracher is a US-based product designer who has worked with brands such as Humanscale, 3M, Herman Miller, Georg Jensen and Issey Miyake through his eponymous studio, winning a slew of awards along the way. More recently, he created another company, Betterlab, in which he collaborates with scientists and innovators to, in his words, ‘shape emerging research and foundational technologies into game-changing products’. The company has taken a particular interest in the potential of light...

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46:41

Zena Holloway on grass roots.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/10/22

Zena Holloway is a bio-designer and founder of Rootfull, which creates exquisite clothes, lights and sculptures from grass roots. She started her career as an underwater photographer, doing extraordinary high-end fashion shoots, as well as working with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Tom Daley, Katie Price and numerous other celebrities. At the same time, she was capturing the effects of pollution on the UK’s river beds. So how and why did her career shift so dramatically?In this episod...

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45:07

Alkesh Parmar on orange peel.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/09/11

Alkesh Parmar is a designer and researcher. Over the years, he has hollowed out champagne corks and turned them into chandeliers, as well as transforming traditional Indian terracotta cups into light fittings. But he is best known for his work with citrus peel in general – and orange peel in particular.Using a material generally thought of as waste, he has created a variety of extraordinary products including a juicer (for obvious reasons) and a lampshade. His practice combines craft with cri...

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57:01

Sanne Visser on human hair.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/09/03

Sanne Visser is a Dutch-born, London-based designer. She describes herself as a ‘material explorer, maker and researcher’, who is best known for a string of installations and products using human hair. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins a little under a decade ago, she has exhibited all over the world and been nominated for a number of awards. Happily too, she will be one of the stars of this year’s Material Matters fair – taking place at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf from 18-21 S...

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62:32

Bharti Kher on material alchemy and her fascination...

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/08/27

Artist Bharti Kher was brought up in England before moving to India almost on a whim in the early ’90s. Since then, she has established herself as a major player on the international art scene. Her sculptures talk about women’s place in society and the female body. She has a fascination with mythology and mixing the real with the magical, as well as a profound interest in materials and found objects. She has melted down bangles, used saris, and ceramic figures, as well as casting people ...

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52:22

Oliver Heath on biophilic design.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/08/20

Oliver Heath is a designer, architect, author and one of the world’s leading advocates for biophilic design. Along with his team and the sustainable platform Planted, he currently has an exhibition at the Roca Gallery in South London, which focuses firmly on bio design – illustrating what it is, why it’s important, and how it can be used in the spaces we inhabit. Oliver has been a fixture on our TV screens since 1998, working for the likes of the BBC, ITV, Channel Four, the Discovery Cha...

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52:36

Ernest Scheyder on lithium, mining, and the politics...

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/06/10

Ernest Scheyder is an author and senior correspondent for Reuters. His new book, The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives, looks at the impact of the green transition in the US – and, more particularly, the tensions over the increasing need to mine for metals to decarbonise the grid (and power a plethora of devices) against the nation’s desire to conserve the environment. The book illustrates how materials effect geo-politics and the urge for energy securi...

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54:01

Adi Toch on why she buries copper.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/05/23

Adi Toch is one of the world’s most fascinating metal artists, who over the years has buried her pieces for months on end before digging them up, and even made them react to sound. She has also taken part in collaborations with furniture makers and glass artists. Adi has work in the permanent collections of the V&A, The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Ulster Museum in Northern Ireland, and the Jewish Museum in New York. She won a Wallpaper Magazine Design Award in 2017, and in that ...

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66:23

Human Nature's Jonathan Smales on mining the...

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/05/14

Jonathan Smales is a housing developer like few others. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Human Nature, whose new project, The Phoenix, on the outskirts of Lewes, East Sussex in the UK, has just won planning permission. What makes the development different? The Phoenix will contain 685 homes, designed by a roster of fascinating architects, who will be working in materials such as cross laminated timber and Hempcrete. The development will be pretty much vehicle-free, wit...

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Bert Frank's Adam Yeats on manufacturing in...

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/05/07

Adam Yeats is co-founder and managing director of Bert Frank, one of the UK’s leading lighting companies. Yeats started the brand with designer, Robbie Llewellyn, in 2013. Since then it has gone from strength to strength, opening a showroom in London’s Clerkenwell in 2019, exhibiting at home and abroad, and winning the Elle Decoration British Design Award for Lighting in 2016. The company was also the headline sponsor for last year’s Material Matters fair. Craft has always been an intrin...

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57:48

Ptolemy Mann on colour, weaving, and painting.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/04/30

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61:15

Fairphone's Bas van Abel on repair, longevity, and...

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/02/19

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55:47

John Tuomey on his childhood and becoming an architect.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/02/12

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55:47

Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on British Pasture...

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2024/02/05

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58:13

Florian Gadsby on clay and becoming a potter.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2024/01/29

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51:23

Christien Meindertsma on wool (and linoleum).

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2024/01/22

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59:01

Simone Brewster on 2023, her breakthrough year.

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2023/12/27

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53:48

Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert on hot glass.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson ·

2023/12/20

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