Our Craftspeople
Two Potters | Ceramics | Terengganu, Malaysia
Tan Yi Han & Alex Wu
Yi Han and Alex share a ceramics studio and life in Terengganu under the moniker Two Potters. Their works and their persons tiptoe in the delightful overlap of regal and playful.
Friends Craft Coop | Wood | Klang valley, Malaysia
Teoh Jia Chern
Chern brings a fiercely practical approach to an emancipatory intellectual pursuit. His ideas find form not only through wooden furnitures, but in Friends Craft Coop, a machine that uplifts people through craft.
Friends Craft Coop | Ceramics | Klang valley, Malaysia
Jamie Chin May Ying
In a moment where visual seems most tangible, Jamie invites you to leave the digital for the physical. Beautiful works are ones that bring people together, and she seeks processes of making that encourage people to build on one another. She reminds us of the need to centre our works on people not products.
Jimmy | Metal | Sarawak, Malaysia
Jimmy
Knife man is not the hero you need nor the hero you deserve.
Field Notes
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Two Traditions in Furniture Making
FRIENDS Craft CoopBelieve it or not, I have not made a full box with lid since secondary school. Although this seems unlikely for a furniture maker, it is not. I think of...
Two Traditions in Furniture Making
FRIENDS Craft CoopBelieve it or not, I have not made a full box with lid since secondary school. Although this seems unlikely for a furniture maker, it is not. I think of...
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The Art of Repetition
FRIENDS Craft CoopSometimes when people like our works, they tell us it is a piece of art. Implied is a distinction between art and manufacturing. One is singular and unique; the other...
The Art of Repetition
FRIENDS Craft CoopSometimes when people like our works, they tell us it is a piece of art. Implied is a distinction between art and manufacturing. One is singular and unique; the other...
