{ Tea & Make } was established in Spring 2009 by stylist Sally Curtis and artist Esther Yarnold, to manage events celebrating regionally-made products, creative businesses and making-do. The ethos behind Tea & Make was to get hands-on and involved with making - whether at a free workshop at one of our events, in the future by taking away the literature we provide on available courses and organisations, or simply to buy a piece of something handmade from one of our carefully chosen artists or designer makers.

Based in South East London, Sally Curtis is an interiors stylist and writer, Manager of The French Bedroom Company, and founder of Pheasant, a little mail order company selling home accessories made by craftspeople across picturesque North and West Yorkshire. Sally has a passion for collecting lovely things that other people make, but has recently turned her hand to learning pottery for herself at the local adult education centre, which has made her appreciate other people’s work even more! And that is where the idea for Tea & Make began…

Esther Yarnold is an artist and curator working in London and Dorset. She works in digital, installation and book arts, and also works in education, public art and design as one half of creative partnership, interim. interim are based by the coast in Dorset, as associate artists at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts. Esther loves running creative projects that bring people together to exhibit, share and learn, and regularly curates exhibitions and events in unexpected locations.