Salford Makers Shop

Artist-led retail exhibition and commissioned works — Salford, 2018

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Collective pop-up shop combining fabrication, retail and commissioned work.

In December 2018, I was part of the Salford Makers collective, which opened an artist-led Christmas shop on Chapel Street in Salford. The project operated as a temporary retail and exhibition space, bringing together work by local artists and makers in a shared, self-managed environment.

For the shop, I produced a series of bespoke Christmas decorations made from laser-etched acrylic mirror, exploring reflection, repetition and surface through small-scale fabricated objects. Alongside these, I created four commissioned laser-etched glass mirrors specifically for the exhibition and shop space.

The works combined digital processes with material experimentation, allowing precision and variation to coexist across both decorative and functional objects. Positioned within a retail context, the pieces tested how crafted, process-led work could circulate outside traditional gallery settings while remaining materially and conceptually resolved.
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The project emphasised collaboration, visibility and direct engagement with audiences, using a seasonal pop-up format to create access to artist-made work within the city.