May Wild Studio a social arts practice - Rebecca May & Michael Wild (since 2017), creating artworks challenging the conventions between visual art & traditional craft making. Using storytelling, collaboration & participatory projects, our work raises awareness & encourages conversation around themes of storytelling, nature & climate change & local/global environmental issues.
We create 3D artworks that communicate the raw materials of the natural and urban landscapes we live in.
Combining traditional craft methods with manufacturing technologies we develop new sustainable methods of making that look for a more meaningful connection to the natural world. Our Creative practice is driven by our core values :
Handcraft - Nature - Storytelling - Community - Collaboration
Our work has been shown in the UK and internationally including London Design Festival and British Ceramics Biennial through solo/group exhibitions and installations. Our co-create participatory art projects include Radical Kindness Oldham Council/Action Together Org, Many Types of Graces for RNCM Manchester, Tame for Tameside Council, Ekhaya/Home/Wom for The Old Courts Wigan/English Heritage.
May Wild Studio also design and deliver workshops that share our knowledge of hand crafting skills in a range of craft disciplines to a public audience. We also have an extensive range of teaching experience in FE/HE education and have led community based art projects that focus on environment.
Biographies:
Rebecca May is an Artist/Designer Maker, a second careerist who originally trained and worked as a Building Surveyor for 13 years before returning to University to study 3D Design specialising in Ceramics and gaining a 1st Class Honours Degree.
Michael Wild is an Artist/Designer-Maker and a part-time Art & Design lecturer. Michael studied Fine Art Ceramics at Breton Hall gaining a 1st Class Honours Degree and an MA Design - Distinction at Manchester School of Art MMU.
May Wild Studio launched at London Design Festival in 2018. Our creative practice operates from both the city and our home studio in semi-rural Saddleworth, this contrast of the city and countryside within close proximity is essential to how we formulate our creative ideas, we are inspired by our environment both urban and rural.
In 2017 we were selected for the Crafts Council Hothouse Programme for Emerging Talent. Read a recent interview with May Wild Studio here:
