I believe that acknowledging the origins of a product is the first step towards making more informed and ethical choices about what we consume. I find new applications for otherwise undervalued natural materials, working primarily with animal materials and byproducts. I design objects on the threshold between animal material and animal which probe our attitude towards our environment and how we use animals to sustain us.
Sheep stomachs become beautiful billowing lights, triggering feelings oscillating between attraction and disgust, the former through their warm luminosity and the latter as soon as one learns more about their material origins.
A series of unique hand-sculpted Cow Benches, each with a different name and shape, serve as memento mori for the cows that died to make the leather they are made from.

Julia Lohmann Born in Germany in 1977, Julia Lohmann is now based in UK after studying graphic design at the Surrey Institute and then design products at the Royal College of Art in London. Lohmann uses her work to explore our contradictory relationship with animals.