Martha’s project, Groovework, explores how three hand-made chisels can become tools for infinite variations in domestic design. Martha has been exploring form through lathe work, forging her own steel tools to develop a series of stackable forms translated into functional lighting design, vessels and tableware.
Throughout the year, Martha limited some aspects of the process, whilst interrogating others. She limited herself to the lathe, to explore tools. She limited her tools to explore form. Then she limited the form to explore materiality, and so it continues. These forms have been translated into porcelain as well as glass, bronze and jesmonite. The shared visual language enables the different materials to be in dialogue with one another whilst maintaining consistency in rhythm and proporation. There are endless possibilities and combinations to continue exploring with Groovework, as well as opportunity for users themselves to decidetheir own assembly in their homes.
Martha is one of the recipients of the Charlotte Fraser Prize 2025 presented to two students of the Ceramics and Glass MA programme at the Royal College of Art.