We are not
looking for ordinary.
Ermak projects are enriched by a genuine passion for the areas we work within so it is essential our partners feel the same. We want to encourage bold ideas and disruptive behaviour so if you are looking for a quiet journey together we are probably not the company for you.
Alessandro Issola
Multidisciplinary Design
ABOUTALESSANDRO ISOLA STUDIO is a multidisciplinary design practice based in London, specialising in architecture, interiors, and product design. With his creatively like-minded team, Alessandro works internationally with current projects in England, United States, Switzerland, Russia and Italy. His projects and products have been exhibited, published, and awarded internationally.
For much of his production, Alessandro returns to his native Italy to source true independent craftsmen, who over generations have perfected a particular craft technique. This bygone artisan know-how and timeless quality is sensitively paired with latter-day advancements in technology, to turn ideas into reality.
Images: Flow Sink.
Alexander Whitley
Performing Arts
ABOUTALEXANDER WHITLEY is a London-based choreographer working at the cutting edge of British contemporary dance. As artistic director of Alexander Whitley Dance Company he has developed a reputation for a bold interdisciplinary approach to dance making, producing technologically innovative and thought provoking stage productions as well as exploring the creative possibilities being opened up by new digital platforms. He has also created work for several of the UK’s leading companies including the Royal Ballet, Rambert, Balletboyz, Candoco and Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Images: Overflow, Photography by Johan Persson. Digital Body, Visuals by George Adamon.
Sarah Myerscough Gallery
Contemporary Craft & Design
ABOUTSARAH MYERSCOUGH GALLERY represents highly-skilled international artist-designer-makers, whose practices are grounded in craft-making traditions but defined by contemporary innovation and invention. Through diverse making processes, they collectively embrace the complex intersections between history and future; hand and technology; form and function. By curating a specialist programme of exhibitions, the gallery aims to support this movement within the arts, which advocates the importance of retaining elements of the past, to mould a vision of the future.
Images: Ernst Gamperl. Ice Stool Twist Iv, Egeværk. Ves-El, 2014, Gareth Neal & Zaha Hadid.
Russell Maliphant
Contemporary Dance
ABOUTRUSSELL MALIPHANT DANCE COMPANY was established in 1996 as the framework to initiate productions and to work with their own ensemble of dancers. Since that time they have received two Olivier awards, three South Bank Show awards and three Critics’ Circle National Dance awards for best modern choreography and one for best independent company, amongst many other national and international awards and nominations.
Russell Maliphant’s work is characterised by a unique approach to flow, energy and an ongoing exploration of the relationship between movement, light and music.
Images: Kairos & Still Current.
The New Craftsmen
Contemporary Craft & Design
ABOUTTHE NEW CRAFTSMEN was established in 2012 as a platform for genuine and meaningful craft, playfully imagined and properly made by artisans of the British Isles.
Founded on a belief in the joyful, enduring value of finely crafted wares, this pioneering initiative has grown to become a substantial community of makers with a rich variety of expertise, including textiles, furniture and pottery, lighting and artwork.
Excelsior
Maker Space London
ABOUTEXCELSIOR STUDIOS is located in the heart of Old Park Royal, on the site of the former Britannia Works and its production of the Excelsior Lamp.
A newly renovated warehouse offering studios and workshops, residents include painters, printers, dancers, healers, designers, sculptors, programmers, framers, all kinds of artists and all sorts of makers.
