New Makers 2025
Celebrating and supporting creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship
For the seventh year, we have invited international craftspeople to apply for our New Makers programme. The successful artists receive a platform to sell their handmade goods, with full profits being returned to them, along with expert guidance on growing their emerging businesses.
We are delighted to introduce our New Makers for 2025: Lærke Møller Hansen, Amy Leeworthy, Elise McLauchlan, Lindey Tydeman and Sabine Van der Sande.
From refined and sculptural ceramics to Canadian-sourced maple tableware, loom-woven throws, and jewellery crafted from a blend of precious metals, each piece in this year’s collection is handmade to order.
Lærke Møller Hansen
Working from a former blacksmith’s workshop near Odense, Denmark, Lærke Møller Hansen has been working in ceramics for over ten years. Inspired by the simplicity of Japanese ceramics, she develops her own glazes using locally-sourced materials like sand and wood ash. Under the moniker Danish Clay Design, she crafts serene, functional tableware guided by organic forms.
Amy Leeworthy
Based in Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula, Amy Leeworthy creates decorative stoneware ceramics using wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques. She hand-paints geometric designs inspired by the shades of her coastal surroundings.
“Each year we look to support emerging artisans who are blending traditional craft techniques with contemporary design. This year’s selections all explore technique, material and form to create something unique in the field of the handmade.”
Judith Harris, Head of Home
Elise McLauchlan
Blending traditional craft with functional design, Elise McLauchlan creates wood-turned tableware that privileges the natural grain and texture of her material. The Yorkshire-born, Montreal-based woodworker works with locally-sourced maple and maple burl.
Lindey Tydeman
Jeweller Lindey Tydeman uses electroforming to create her collections, a technique that allows her to grow precious metals on organic forms, revealing contrasts in texture and tone. Lindey uses a blend of recycled sterling silver, copper, and gold. Inspired by the sea, her textural surfaces are reminiscent of coral, barnacles and oceanic crust.
Sabine Van der Sande
Using British lambswool and organic cotton, Sabine Van der Sande creates textiles informed by age-old techniques. The south London-based maker weaves her pieces on a nineteenth-century loom and uses vibrant colours inspired by traditional folk decorative objects.
Pieces by Sabine Van der Sande are currently unavailable.
Alumni | Previous New Makers
We are delighted to share the ongoing successes of our previous New Makers from the last 6 years.
