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The subject of ‘home’ has always been a crucial part of my work. It’s a question my family and I often thought about. Our identities are rooted to multiple places, past and present. For more than three generations now, there has not been a singular answer. Where is home if the places you loved no longer exist? Buildings and country borders, immersed or absorbed, forever changed.
With this background, I’ve come to accept that I’m always ready to move on, to make a home in a new place, and in this process I learnt that home is a collection of experiences which we can connect to - and people who surround and support us no matter where we are.
No matter where I am, I find my own way through connection - to place, material and the small gestures that carry meaning. Nature taught me to recognise that beauty is everywhere if we learn to look, and I have carried that lesson through everything I make: stripping things back and allowing the quiet presence of things to emerge.
Quiet moments of beauty fill the world around us. With our memories, intentions and emotions they are woven into the fabric of our identities. Some happen to us by chance, some we are drawn to, others have been passed onto us. There is beauty in each.
I curate objects, spaces and stories to create moments of beauty.
As our lives are so heavily influenced by the digital milieu, I feel there is a growing need for simplicity, meaning and tangible experiences. I’m interested in creating work that brings us back to attention, presence and connection.
My background is in the arts and culture, having lived across Europe to experience new materials, places and visual languages, I started my creative path by studying sculpture, staying for a time in Pietrasanta, Italy, working with the Carrara marble from the same quarry Michelangelo once worked from. As a photo editor working from London, Paris and St Petersburg, I featured makers and artists in printed publications.
Growing from these experiences, my work developed an emphasis on craft and heritage preservation, through silversmithing in Hatton Garden, London, and setting up a social enterprise to preserve traditional artisan wool weaving techniques in the Carpathian Mountains.
After 10 years in the UK film industry I have been working in international development mostly as a UN consultant. The women's economic empowerment programmes run by the International Trade Centre and UN Women connected me with incredible women artisans and entrepreneurs in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and the Pacific. This global work continues to inspire my aesthetic sensibility and I’m excited to be learning about craft and cultural heritage from women honing their skills in regions rich in stories and beautiful, traditional materials.
Today, these threads are no longer separate. Interiors, portraits, film, editorial work, cultural heritage, craft and creative consultancy have become different ways of following the same instinct: to notice what is meaningful, to strip away what is unnecessary and to give beauty a form that can be felt.
I do this work because I believe to be moved by a moment is to move the world of that person, creating new meanings and values through the dialogue of people, objects and experience.
I see what carries meaning and I know how to give it form.
This is the world I want to keep building - one shaped by simplicity, tenderness, curiosity and connection.
Agatha x