A love letter to nature
Wedgwood, Claire Luxton and Feathr collaboration reimagines teaware collection as an art installation
Feathr has collaborated with iconic British brand, Wedgwood, and multi-disciplinary artist, Claire Luxton, to create an original artwork and luxury wallpaper mural Wonderlust – inspired by six patterns introduced to the Wedgwood Wonderlust teaware collection.
Luxton reimagined the new Wedgwood patterns with a living sculptural installation visualized in the artist’s East Sussex studio. Using florals, botanicals, taxidermy, and live animals, Luxton created a multi dimensional installation involving sculptural, collage, photographic, and hand painted techniques.
The finished three dimensional sculpture was photographed in over thirty different sections by Luxton, who then digitally stitched the artwork together in hundreds of layers before applying hand finished details, including water droplets and images of real life poison dart frogs.
Working with Luxton, Feathr has adapted the artwork into a 6 x 3 meter wall mural, available exclusively from Feathr.com. The Wonderlust by Claire Luxton x Wedgwood faithfully reproduces the exquisite detail of Luxton’s original artwork, with the flora and fauna captured in breathtaking sharpness.
Feathr works with a community of internationally acclaimed contemporary artists to design and produce bespoke wallpapers and wall murals. The Feathr team had worked with Claire Luxton in the past, and introduced the artist to Wedgwood as the ideal creative partner to reinterpret the Wonderlust design and bring the patterns to life in an interior space.
Wedgwood is renowned for collaborating with artists to create new expressions of its iconic patterns, an approach focused on reinvention that has resulted in unexpected interpretations and exciting contemporary visions of the company’s classic and timeless designs.
Recent Wedgwood design collaborations have included Japanese ceramic artist and RCA alumni, Hitomi Hosono, and leading UK product and interior designer, Lee Broom. In the 1930’s, the British landscape painter, Eric Ravilious, became an ongoing collaborator with Wedgwood, and in the 1970’s, Scottish sculptor and graphic artist, Eduardo Paolozzi, created a limited collection of six plates using modern screen printing techniques.
Commenting on the partnership with Wedgwood and Claire Luxton, Tom Puukko, Founder of Feathr, says, “We believe art is for everyone and that art should be everywhere. The lush creativity of the new Wedgwood Wonderlust collection felt so ripe for taking into a larger format like a wall mural, so we were delighted when Wedgwood approached us to bring the collection to life as a wallcovering. Claire Luxton, whose work so cleverly plays with the form and scale of botanics, felt like the perfect artist to take the Wonderlust designs on the journey from tableware to wall mural.
The final artwork is something truly joyous; rich in detail, filled with tropical texture, and a siren call to explore and engage with the natural world.”
Commenting on the collaboration, Claire Luxton explains, “being able to work with
a brand that has such a rich heritage was really thrilling to me, as you’re building upon generations of craft that is already es- tablished. The Golden Parrot and Sapphire Garden prints just popped out to me. They both became crucial in the artwork I created, and I was adamant that I was going to involve the parrot in the final artwork and have balance between the botanicals and the animals.” Luxton adds “I’m just moved by the way these two worlds have been able to come together and reflect each other, and I think we’ve created something truly unique.”
The Wonderlust by Claire Luxton x Wedgwood wall mural is available in two colour options, Dawn Flight and Dusk Flight. The landscape format design is made to order in bespoke sizes on 150gsm non-woven wallcovering, along with materials suitable for commercial installations. The mural is available for worldwide delivery exclusively from www.feathr.com.
Prices start from £59/€69/$79 per sqm
About Feathr
Interiors start-up, Feathr, is on a mission to fill the world with more art and less decoration. Headquartered in the famed artists only village of Fiskars, Finland, Feathr roams the world collaborating with contemporary artists to create original wallcoverings and fabrics. Feathr has worked with artists including legendary tattooist, Liam Sparkes, renowned American abstract artist, Kiki Slaughter, and the sought after French creative duo, Atelier Bingo.
Feathr has been awarded Surface of the Year at the World Interior News Awards and named as Finland’s number one Design startup.
About Wedgwood
The home of curious, creative and imaginative people, a place fueled by creativity, self-expression, humour and lots of tea. We’re of Britain, but not only British, famously crafting timeless luxury ceramics since 1759 and helping to create memories all around the globe. With a rich heritage of design innovation and craftsmanship at the core of everything we do, our confident and colourful world is a place to surprise and be inspired. Welcome to Wedgwood, the home of Eclectic Originals.
About Claire Luxton
Claire Luxton is a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist working with photography, installation, poetry, and painting, and is represented by MTArt Agency. After receiving a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Gold- smiths University of London, Luxton created a challenging series of self portraits
and sculptures, pushing her emotional and physical boundaries by becoming both the subject matter and the materiality.
Her work explores the delicate equilibrium between humans and nature, and the ominous undercurrents of her work oscillate between constructed femininity and alluring vulnerability, seducing the viewer with intrigue and uncertainty.
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Luxton’s work draws on both the modern anxiety of society and the environment; each portrait, painting, and accompanying poetry, becoming an exploration of isolation, desire, and uncertainty.
In 2015 Luxton’s exploration of human fragility, physicality, and the female form culminated in her first solo exhibition, Avalon. This was followed by her second solo exhibition, BOTANICA, in 2017. The artist’s work has been shown in London, Miami, and Singapore, including exhibits at The London Art Fair and Art Basel.
Claire Luxton’s work is regularly featured in leading international art, culture, and fashion publications includ- ing Harper’s Bazaar, FLUX Magazine, Glamour Italia, The Saturday Telegraph Magazine, and Blogosphere Magazine. Commercial commissions have been received from Crown Estate, Regent Street (2021), United Nations x Artivive (2020), Adobe Creative Cloud (2019), Swarovski (2019), Birmingham Royal Ballet (2018), and McQueen (2017).
Solo exhibitions include L’Occitane, House of Luxton (2021), Christie’s Collectors Club (2020), Botanica (2017 – 2019), and Avalon (2015 – 2016).
Luxton’s work has also been exhibited at Paris Photo Off, Paris (2020), The London Art Fair (2018), Art Basel, Miami (2016), and Serpentine Gallery, London (2015).
Instagram @claireluxtonart
