Gather at MADE: Diriyah Islamic Art Biennale
In April, our founder Phoebe Stubbs travelled to Jeddah to take part in MADE., a four-day design and cultural programme held as part of the Diriyah Islamic Art Biennale. MADE. brings together designers, artists, and thinkers to explore contemporary design through the lenses of place, memory, ethics, and innovation.
As a working glassblowing studio based in London, Gather was invited to participate in the MADE. Forum, where we introduced our handblown glassware to audiences in Saudi Arabia for the first time. Our work was presented as part of an ongoing practice rooted in furnace glassmaking, developed inside our production studio in Woolwich, where molten glass is worked daily by a small team of makers under Phoebe’s direction.
The few days in Jeddah were spent in conversation with artists, designers, and institutions from across the region and internationally, exchanging ideas around contemporary craft, material intelligence, and the role of handblown glass in modern design contexts.
For Gather, this kind of exchange sits closely alongside our studio practice - a process that moves between production, experimentation, and collaboration inside a live glassblowing environment.
Step inside our working furnace studio where all Gather Glass pieces are made...