17th July 2025
July news: rise of the agri-architects, sculptural spatial design, snail art, and food around the world
Zetteler’s agri-architecture talk in Groundswell, plus exhibitions and installations by UP Projects, Museum of the Home and GF Smith. Plus, we meet sculptor and designer Jobe Burns, hear about the success of Flowers on the Edge, and follow Anderssen & Voll to Copenhagen.
Render of ‘Snail on me’ by Anne Duk Hee Jordan. Render by Plincke Landscape.
UP Projects
Anne Duk Hee Jordan unveils ‘Snail on me’
Anne Duk Hee Jordan unveils ‘Snail on me’
A meditation on our relationship with nature that collects and filters rainwater, ‘Snail on me’ is a site-specific five-year installation commissioned by UP Projects. Due to be installed in the walled garden at Haigh Hall, Wigan, on 13 September 2025, the sculpture is the second half of Korean-German artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s Bodies of Water project.
Its steel and mesh construction evokes the hybrid form of a mythological creature, incorporating elements of slugs, snails and snake tongues. Water flows down the sculpture into a newly created wildlife pond – a further exploration of the artist's longstanding research into sex ecologies and survival in the more-than-human world.
In the lead up to the public sculpture launch, a symposium in partnership with Liverpool Biennial takes place on 11 September 2025.
Go with the flow
Its steel and mesh construction evokes the hybrid form of a mythological creature, incorporating elements of slugs, snails and snake tongues. Water flows down the sculpture into a newly created wildlife pond – a further exploration of the artist's longstanding research into sex ecologies and survival in the more-than-human world.
In the lead up to the public sculpture launch, a symposium in partnership with Liverpool Biennial takes place on 11 September 2025.
Go with the flow
Invitation for ‘The Space Between’.
QSP Studio x Beyond the Box
Immersive installation at the Southbank explores dance, community and identity
Immersive installation at the Southbank explores dance, community and identity
The history of dance speaks to our fundamental social impulses. During the Southbank Centre’s summer programme, author Emma Warren has invited QSP Studio to design an immersive installation as a meditation on identity and togetherness. Produced by Beyond the Box, the piece launches on 24 July and features a series of dancing silhouettes cast on a dramatic canopy, dancing with the sun by day and glowing by night.
Arguing that the built environment is essential to fostering community, the installation spotlights the budgets cuts placed on youth centres and the post-Covid challenges faced by nightclubs.
Care to dance?
Arguing that the built environment is essential to fostering community, the installation spotlights the budgets cuts placed on youth centres and the post-Covid challenges faced by nightclubs.
Care to dance?
‘Village Big Pot of Meat’ by Shaolong Su.
Museum of the Home
Food and ceramics from around the world
Food and ceramics from around the world
Exploring the diversity of ways in which people share food across the globe, as well as the intricate craft skills behind the objects that decorate our spaces, the Museum of the Home’s current summer programme offers an intriguing look into how our homes are used and experienced.
Running until Sunday 7 September, the World Food Photography Awards presents a group exhibition of fascinating photographs showing how food touches our lives, from growing, harvesting and cooking, to eating, celebrating and surviving. And in September, Ceramics in the City 2025 will highlight the artistry of ceramicists from London and beyond.
Time to go home
Running until Sunday 7 September, the World Food Photography Awards presents a group exhibition of fascinating photographs showing how food touches our lives, from growing, harvesting and cooking, to eating, celebrating and surviving. And in September, Ceramics in the City 2025 will highlight the artistry of ceramicists from London and beyond.
Time to go home
Photos by Helen Warner.
Flowers on the Edge
Next-gen floristry showcase
Next-gen floristry showcase
A highlight of the recent British Flowers Week (16–22 June 2025) – the newly reinvigorated annual celebration of floristry led by eco-conscious trade association Flowers from the Farm – the exhibition Flowers on the Edge aimed to change the conversation about flowers, agriculture and our relationship with nature.
In Staffordshire St, a project space in Peckham, seven designers created unique installations using only locally grown flowers and sustainable mechanics, highlighting the artistry of floral design while promoting the positive environmental impact of British-grown flowers.
Follow floristry's finest
In Staffordshire St, a project space in Peckham, seven designers created unique installations using only locally grown flowers and sustainable mechanics, highlighting the artistry of floral design while promoting the positive environmental impact of British-grown flowers.
Follow floristry's finest
HiLo by Anderssen & Voll for &Tradition.
Anderssen & Voll
&Tradition’s HiLo sofa sits pretty
&Tradition’s HiLo sofa sits pretty
Raising eyebrows and lowering stress levels at Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign, Anderssen & Voll’s newest piece for &Tradition is HiLo is now available – a modular sofa inspired by the sunken expanse of a 1970s conversation pit. Reflecting a duality between high comfort and low form, the generous proportions, ample cushioning and figure-hugging upholstery make HiLo irresistibly inviting.
Its presentation in the festival was accompanied by a playlist curated by the Norwegian studio, inviting passers-by to sit, relax and unwind.
Turn on, tune in, veg out
Its presentation in the festival was accompanied by a playlist curated by the Norwegian studio, inviting passers-by to sit, relax and unwind.
Turn on, tune in, veg out
Jobe Burns with his sculpture ‘Acts of Enclosure’. Image courtesy of Jobe Burns.
Jobe Burns
Zetteler welcomes Walsall-born sculptor of space
Zetteler welcomes Walsall-born sculptor of space
The newest addition to Zetteler’s extended family, artist and designer Jobe Burns is perhaps best understood through his passion for sculpture. The Walsall-rooted creative polymath holds a degree in spatial design from Chelsea College of Art and a master's in sculpture from the RCA, but it was the success of his sculpture show in 2019 that properly put him on the map.
He’s also set to make waves in the interiors sphere with a soon-to-be-announced renovation of a 300-year-old farmhouse (which, five years in the making, is a genuine jaw-dropper) but until then, take a look at his Brutalist-inspired design label Concrete Objects, co-founded with Samuel Ross, and his domestic works for human-centred design company ORBE.
Feel the Burns
He’s also set to make waves in the interiors sphere with a soon-to-be-announced renovation of a 300-year-old farmhouse (which, five years in the making, is a genuine jaw-dropper) but until then, take a look at his Brutalist-inspired design label Concrete Objects, co-founded with Samuel Ross, and his domestic works for human-centred design company ORBE.
Feel the Burns
Zetteler’s Groundswell panel AGRI/TECTURE-ARCHI/CULTURE discuss ‘New Forms of Practice to Support Sustainable and Regenerative Environments’.
Groundswell
Panel talk: eco-driven agri-architects
Panel talk: eco-driven agri-architects
Our first visit to the Groundswell Festival of Regenerative Agriculture earlier this month will definitely not be our last. With so much of our work and approach rooted in sustainable thinking, the chance to tap into conversations about the future of food and the stewardship of the environment was a hugely informative and valuable experience. And we were proud to be able to contribute ourselves: curating a panel talk on agriculture and architecture – a first for the festival.
Hosted by architectural historian Neal Shasore, the line-up brought together the British Hemp Association’s Nathaniel Loxley, with architects Bushra Mohamed, Daniel Pope and Jonathan Tuckey to spotlight and explore the growing momentum behind non-extractive, bioregional architecture.
On the ground
Hosted by architectural historian Neal Shasore, the line-up brought together the British Hemp Association’s Nathaniel Loxley, with architects Bushra Mohamed, Daniel Pope and Jonathan Tuckey to spotlight and explore the growing momentum behind non-extractive, bioregional architecture.
On the ground
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