Glithero is the collaboration of designers Sarah van Gameren and Tim Simpson, whose innate curiosity and attention to detail yields products that combine precision with inventiveness, and serendipity with design. Glithero continually looks for ways to harvest the potential of materials and manufacturing techniques to dramatise critical moments in the making process, seeking new possibilities in the familiar, or unforeseen. What sets them apart is their attention to the performativity of materials, to the vitality of process, and to duration. The studio produces a diverse range of products, furniture, and time-based performances for institutions and individuals, with a conceptual rigour and inquisitiveness that is distinct.
With a focus on process-led design, Glithero often employs narrative techniques in film to interrogate manufacture and reveal the alchemy of making; their aim is to capture the singular moment in which things are made. They believe that process is as important as the finished object; that it is the makers’ intention, the context for making, and the process of facture that matters most in the face of changing design tastes. Their works are often time-based and transformative; objects become happenings, and happenings become objects.
Glithero works across a spectrum of materials, from wax to plaster, light-sensitive chemicals, and quick-setting concrete, and with a wide range of processes; nothing is off limits.