About the practice
The next life of a broken thing.
Just a Bita Me is a one-person studio making abstract sculpture from materials most people throw away. Slate rescued from demolished walls. Epoxy resin cast in reclaimed moulds. Mannequins hauled out of storage and given a second surface. And living, breathing plant art hung to drift through the room.
The work sits between geology, figuration and gardening — hard and soft, ancient and alive, all of it rescued.
How the studio works
Reclaim first
Every piece starts with a hunt — demolition slate, offcut resin, a mannequin from a closing shop. New materials are a last resort.
Let the material lead
Slate breaks how it breaks; resin pools where it wants. I design around the material's character rather than fighting it.
Keep it living
The hanging plant pieces grow, dry and regrow. They're not frozen objects — they're slow collaborations with the seasons.
Make it by hand
No batches, no moulds repeated beyond a handful. Each work is a one-off made on the bench, one shard at a time.
From skip to studio wall
- 01
Salvage
Slate, mannequins, timber and resin offcuts are gathered from building sites, charity shops and neighbours' skips.
- 02
Sort & clean
Materials are cleaned, cracked along honest lines and sorted by colour and weight. Nothing is disguised — the breaks stay visible.
- 03
Compose
Shards are dry-laid until a composition feels right, then set in poured resin or mounted onto a reclaimed substrate.
- 04
Fun self watering spider plant holders
Fill once every 2 weeks — living spider plants set into reclaimed forms designed to look after themselves with minimal fuss.
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