My style is strong and sassy.
I’m a female Brighton based badass Artist, Metalsmith and Woodworker who loves combats and steel toe caps over anything girly, pink… or fluffy!
I love to get my hands dirty and I’m a proficient MIG, TIG and Arc welder, Woodworker, Upcycler and Blacksmith. Never without a power tool of some kind, I am always learning and discovering new techniques and processes.
I love to keep it fresh and take on a challenge! And I love to teach others my craft.
Like my style? Want to collaborate? Then you are in the right place! Below are some of the companies I have worked with and examples of how we can work together below.
Get in touch with your ideas & budget here & lets make the magic happen!
Who I’ve worked with
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press
Often featured in newspapers and magazines. For interviews with me for your magazine or newspaper publication please GET IN TOUCH with any questions and image requirements.
Production & Promotion
Interested in creating awareness for reuse and sustainability by promoting my work on television. Consider me for your production. GET IN TOUCH with details of the production including the channel, potential locations, dates and the fee.
I have many years experience being an on-screen presenter, designer, fabricator and salvage expert. As well as presenting taster tapes for production companies and helping shows get commissioned.
Previous roles include:
Brands
Choosing which brands I work with is important. The collaboration must be a great fit with my brand. Sharing the same sustainability ethics, and of course compliment my style is essential.
With a huge interested in all kinds of welding, woodworking and metal smithing tools, eco products and workwear. I love anything to do with upcycling, salvaging, reclaiming, DIY, sustainable design and materials, building and bargain hunting.
If you believe your product or service fits within these categories, or a collaboration would be mutually beneficial please GET IN TOUCH. Send details of the product or service, what you would like me to work with, and the fee you propose.
Become a venue
As the Salvage Sister I am actively searching for potential workshop venues across the UK for a nationwide tour, in Brighton and the surrounding areas. This is so I can offer a wider range of courses and learning to the general public. Workshops are very popular and bring a lot of joy to people because they have a different experience, make new friends and have something to take home as a reminder of their day. If you want to support this community, please get in touch.
Brand alliances
ESAB
ESAB is the worlds largest welding & thermal cutting machine manufacturer.
I am part of ESAB’s elite team of welders and fabricators, I share my tips and techniques through social media using ESAB’s range of high-tech quality welding and cutting equipment to create my handmade metal art, furniture & hardware & I tag them in relevant posts.
You can view the rest on the team and read more about this ongoing collaboration here: www.esabna.com/us/en/elite , or head to my Instagram @therealsalvagesister and view the work we do together.
More recently I became the face of ESAB EU, and their virtual exhibition ‘Xpanse’.
You can find me on ESABs ‘Arc Chats’ which I present on their YouTube & Social media.
And everything there is to know about their products, including helpful tips for safe use.
More at www.esabxpanse.com, register for free to walk around and watch me in action at the Rebel, Rogue, manual plasma and Sentinel booths.
Benchmark Abrasives
www.benchmarkabrasives.com
In 2020 Benchmark asked me to use their abrasives and see what I think. I haven’t used any other abrasive since. I use their products in my work and create awareness for their fantastic products in the content I create.
Mid Sussex Recycling
2020 was when I started holding pallet furniture and Freestyle woodwork workshops at this fantastic rural site. C:19 paused them for a while, but we are now back in full swing. I share all the images from the day and encourage people to reclaim wood, rather than buy new.
Brighton Girls
www.brightongirls.gdst.net
We started in planning in 2019, and finally in 2021 (post covid), it’s happening. I’ll be running extra curricular creative power-tool classes for the girls, and a selection of my beginners, upcycling and crafting workshops in the evening, weekends and school holidays for everyone – starting July 2021, bookable now.
View all my classes at WORKSHOPS and my my LEARN ONLINE course.
FRN UK
The Furniture Reuse Network
www.reuse-network.org.uk
I created an upcycled trophy from scrap metal, computer circuit boards and car parts for the FRN.
Then I travelled to Daventry to attend their 3 day reuse summit.
During my stay, I give a 30-minute speech about my creative journey in reuse, and judged the upcycling competition.
I read out the winner I had chosen on stage on the last evening and gave the talented winner the trophy at the black-tie closing party.
This was a great event where I met so many amazing people and really enjoyed my stay.
b&Q
www.diy.com
Creating the whole alphabet in gorgeous solid wood using B&Q’s materials.
B&Q ran an online competition for a month in which each day a letter would be given away to one of the people who had commented on the thread on their Facebook page.
10 extra letters which were sent out to bloggers and influencers along with a goodie bag and an invitation to attend a workshop with me in central London at a trendy venue.
Then I taught these 10 influential wannabe wood crafters how to use power tools to make their own 3D wooden letters.
Needless to say, they all left with a new found appreciation of the tools they had used, not to mention and goodie bags literally bursting with new paints and tools.
Brighton Wood Recycling Store
www.woodrecycling.org.uk
Loved working with this exciting Brighton based branch of the national Community Wood Recycling project, social enterprise. From 2018 to 2020 we inspired reuse and creativity by teaching people how to upcycle in weekly WORKSHOP classes.
Vintro Paint
www.vintro.co.uk
I was asked to film 8 x 30 second videos for Vintro for the launch of Vintro’s new paint colours.
Each of these videos showed me opening one their new colours, painting with it and talking about the inspiration behind the colour.
All videos were filmed in my own studio and edited in house.
When the videos were complete they were send to Vintro who uploaded one each day for a week to their social profiles, and soon after shared by myself.
The National Trust
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
The National Trust commissioned me to make two pieces which were filmed with a production company. The videos showed inanimate objects coming to life, creating beautiful and useful objects.
One video portrayed some old forks coming out of a draw and dancing up onto a piece of wood, making different hand gestures, then turning into key hooks.
The other video showed a wine bottle rolling out of a rubbish bag and up on to a table where lamp fittings, a bulb and an upcycled base all rolled together to create a lamp.
The National Trust shared these videos with the hashtag #beautifulanduseful and encouraged others to show off their own beautiful and useful projects.
Acorn Reuse centre
www.acorn.co.je
The Acorn is a fantastic new reuse centre based on the island of Jersey. I have worked with them to create awareness for this new charity. Showing it’s new patrons how to upcycle while raising money for this exciting cause.
In July 2018 I travelled to Jersey to meet everyone and lead an upcycling workshop. Once there I was let loose with the items Acorn collects for reuse – it was my idea of heaven!
The masterpieces I made included a selection of lamps on stage at Acorn’s fundraising event. At this event I talked about my journey through a career of reusing salvaged items and how I became the Salvage Sister.
Workshop Studio & Presenter Hire
When you need a professional artist, designer, maker or metalworker, in her own workshop – who has many years of experience in front of the camera, demonstrating, teaching and inspiring… look no further than The Salvage Sister.
With a professional workspace and a shop full of woodworking , metalworking and DIY tools and machines. Including: welders; MIG, TIG and MMA, plasma cutters, routers, sliding mitre chop saws, drills, hand tools and more!
These are just a few of the ways I can collaborate with your brand, get in touch with your ideas and let’s make it happen!
