Material Matters with Grant Gibson

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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.design

The Material Matters fair will run from 18-21 September 2024 at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, as part of the London Design Festival.

Material Matters is produced and published by Delizia Media Ltd.


Episode Date
Bert Frank's Adam Yeats on manufacturing in post-Brexit Britain.
May 07, 2024
Ptolemy Mann on colour, weaving, and painting.
Apr 30, 2024
Fairphone's Bas van Abel on repair, longevity, and conflict minerals.
Feb 19, 2024
John Tuomey on his childhood and becoming an architect.
Feb 12, 2024
Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on British Pasture Leather.
Feb 05, 2024
Florian Gadsby on clay and becoming a potter.
Jan 29, 2024
Christien Meindertsma on wool (and linoleum).
Jan 22, 2024
Simone Brewster on 2023, her breakthrough year.
Dec 27, 2023
Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert on hot glass.
Dec 20, 2023
Neil Thomas on building with bamboo.
Nov 28, 2023
Caroline Till on material futures, regenerative design, and lots more.
Oct 24, 2023
Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson on their material change.
Sep 18, 2023
Goldfinger’s Marie Carlisle on wood and social good.
Sep 13, 2023
Michael Marriott on resourceful design and his fascination with materials.
Sep 05, 2023
Alice Kettle on embroidery.
Aug 29, 2023
Beatie Wolfe on making music material again and the power of art.
Jun 28, 2023
Ndidi Ekubia on silver and her extraordinary, liquid-like vessels.
Jun 06, 2023
Ercol chairman, Henry Tadros, on elm, beech, ash and keeping his company relevant.
May 30, 2023
Donna Wilson on knitting, becoming a brand, and creating her extraordinary creatures.
May 22, 2023
Julian Stair on pots, death, and using cremated ashes in his work.
May 15, 2023
Paul Cocksedge on coal, metal, light, concrete and much more besides.
Mar 17, 2023
Ineke Hans on designing for the circular economy.
Mar 06, 2023
Darren Appiagyei on turning Banksia nuts and waste wood.
Feb 21, 2023
Summer Islam on building with biomaterials.
Feb 14, 2023
Keith Brymer Jones on his life in clay and TV stardom.
Feb 07, 2023
Peter Apps on Aluminium Composite Material and the Grenfell Tower fire.
Dec 16, 2022
Smile Plastics’ Rosalie McMillan and Adam Fairweather on recycling plastic and reviving a company.
Dec 12, 2022
Aric Chen on design and energy, giving microbes agency, and lots more.
Nov 24, 2022
Professor Rebecca Earley on polyester, people and pragmatism.
Nov 17, 2022
LAYER's Benjamin Hubert on creating and sustaining a career in design.
Sep 20, 2022
Hannah and Justin Floyd on wool (and the new material they've created from it).
Sep 13, 2022
Simon Hasan on Cuir Bouilli (or boiled leather).
Sep 06, 2022
Michael Young on a life in design.
Aug 30, 2022
Majeda Clarke on weaving.
Jul 20, 2022
Carl Clerkin on mending and narrative.
Jun 16, 2022
Juliette Bigley on metal.
May 31, 2022
Nigel Coates on a life in architecture.
May 18, 2022
Richard McVetis on embroidery.
May 10, 2022
Elaine Yan Ling Ng on eggshells.
Mar 17, 2022
Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien on card and colour.
Mar 04, 2022
Aardman's Peter Lord on Plasticine.
Feb 24, 2022
Alison Britton on clay.
Feb 17, 2022
Tom Raffield on steam bending.
Feb 10, 2022
Lucy Sparrow on felt.
Dec 08, 2021
Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on nature and technology.
Dec 01, 2021
Robert Penn on bread – and the politics behind baking.
Nov 24, 2021
Carmen Hijosa on creating Pinatex (a non-woven textile made from pineapple leaves).
Nov 17, 2021
Amin Taha on building with stone.
Nov 10, 2021
Mark Cropper on paper and his family's extraordinary history with the material.
Oct 06, 2021
Claire Wilcox on clothes (and her brilliant book, Patch Work)
Sep 22, 2021
Piet Hein Eek on scrap wood, waste and making the most of 'available possibilities'.
Sep 15, 2021
Emma Witter on animal bone.
Sep 08, 2021
Chris Day on glassblowing, the black experience, and why dyslexia is his superpower.
Aug 31, 2021
1882 Ltd's Emily Johnson on manufacturing ceramics in Stoke-on-Trent.
May 25, 2021
Sir John Sorrell CBE on a life in design.
May 18, 2021
Garry Fabian Miller on cibachrome paper.
May 11, 2021
Mark Miodownik on animate materials.
May 04, 2021
Sarah Wigglesworth on building with straw.
Apr 28, 2021
Jasleen Kaur on food.
Apr 21, 2021
Alice Potts on sweat.
Mar 04, 2021
Thomas Thwaites on making a toaster by hand and attempting to become a goat (yes, really).
Feb 24, 2021
Emeco's Gregg Buchbinder on recycled aluminium.
Feb 17, 2021
Yinka Ilori on colour and narrative.
Feb 10, 2021
Stuart Haygarth on rubbish.
Feb 03, 2021
Juli Bolaños-Durman on recycled glass.
Jan 27, 2021
Steve Barron on hemp (and working with Michael Jackson).
Dec 22, 2020
Paola Antonelli on curating.
Dec 09, 2020
Sarah Corbett on stitching and activism.
Dec 02, 2020
Phoebe Cummings on raw clay.
Nov 25, 2020
Tomáš Libertíny on beeswax.
Nov 18, 2020
Peter Marigold on bio-plastic and mending (with a bit of wood thrown in too).
Nov 11, 2020
Polly Morgan on taxidermy.
Oct 14, 2020
Benchmark's Sean Sutcliffe talks wood and remembers Sir Terence Conran.
Oct 07, 2020
Natsai Audrey Chieza on bacteria.
Sep 30, 2020
Julia Lohmann on kelp (or seaweed).
Sep 23, 2020
Esna Su on the refugee crisis and creating contemporary art from traditional Turkish craft.
Sep 15, 2020
Dominic Wilcox on inventing.
Sep 08, 2020
Alexis Peskine on nails.
Jul 16, 2020
Lin Cheung on stone and the importance of jewellery.
Jun 24, 2020
Fernando Laposse on corn, colour and (Mexican) culture.
Jun 02, 2020
Freddie Robins on knitting.
May 12, 2020
SCP's Sheridan Coakley on manufacturing, retailing and pioneering British design.
Apr 22, 2020
Gareth Neal on timber and technology.
Apr 08, 2020
Junko Mori on metal.
Mar 05, 2020
Malene Hartmann Rasmussen on film, fairytales and clay.
Feb 26, 2020
John Barnard on carbon fibre.
Feb 19, 2020
Daniel Charny on fixing and repair.
Feb 12, 2020
Shelley James on maths, music and the magic of glass.
Feb 05, 2020
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby – from plywood to (recycled) plastic.
Jan 29, 2020
Corinne Julius on a life in design and a love of craft.
Dec 18, 2019
Sebastian Cox on food and furniture.
Dec 11, 2019
Barnaby Barford on ceramic.
Dec 04, 2019
Laura Youngson Coll on vellum.
Nov 27, 2019
Andrew Waugh on CLT – or cross-laminated timber.
Nov 20, 2019
Bethan Laura Wood on laminate.
Nov 13, 2019
Blackhorse Lane Ateliers' Han Ates on denim.
Oct 02, 2019
The Design Museum's Deyan Sudjic on magazines and museums.
Sep 25, 2019
Kate MccGwire on feathers.
Sep 18, 2019
Peter Ting on Blanc de Chine.
Sep 11, 2019
Marlene Huissoud on Propolis (or bee glue, yes, bee glue).
Sep 04, 2019
Tom Dixon on welding (and other things).
Aug 28, 2019
Adam Nathaniel Furman on making waves.
May 29, 2019
Mourne Textiles's Mario Sierra on hand-weaving.
May 22, 2019
Laura Ellen Bacon on willow.
May 15, 2019
Simone ten Hompel on silver.
May 08, 2019
James Shaw on plastic.
May 01, 2019
Kate Malone on clay.
Apr 24, 2019
Bill Amberg on leather.
Jan 22, 2019
Eleanor Lakelin on timber.
Jan 22, 2019
Edmund de Waal on porcelain.
Jan 22, 2019
Celia Pym on darning.
Jan 22, 2019
Peter Layton on glass.
Jan 22, 2019
Glenn Adamson on material intelligence.
Jan 22, 2019