The Jameson Works

The third leg of the tour took us to the North-West where a music don of the local scene, Zed Bias, took to the van to perform his trademark style of UK Garage & Beats.

Earlier this year the Just Jam Van tour, part of our collaboration with creative duo Tim & Barry, took place. We travelled around the country to uncover the face of British underground music today and to showcase the craft that comes from the scene.

Over the next few weeks we'll be sharing some of the sets we filmed on the trip.

First up is Inkke, a Glasgow-based producer making waves with his unique brand of grime and electronic music.

Calling all filmmakers! It’s time to announce the winners of our Film Bursary. 

We were blown away by the number of submission and the quality of work from you all - British independent film making is indeed a creative force to be reckoned with. But sadly we couldn’t choose them all.

Just over a week to go until the film bursary closes, so get cracking with your entries. Whether you need some funding for skills training, a camera for a forthcoming project,  a piece of editing kit for the final stages of a film you've already made, or anything in between, we're here to help.

Christina Liu, one of the winners of the 'Form & Function' bursary last year, has been busy perfecting her The Jameson Works project, the spiral plates.

She told us a little more about the final stages:

"The design successfully translated into clay - the spiral track I designed into the plate functioned the way I intended it to, allowing sauce to flow down to the bottom of the plate. Thanks again for the bursary to help make this happen!"

Enter Dan Thompson and Dawn Cole, the last of this year's bursary winners.

They're working together to set up Start The Press, a mobile print-makers in Margate, Kent. They were inspired by The Thanet Press, a former printers in the town. Having purchased some old printing plates and learning how to use them, they're taking their skills to the road to teach others how to do the same and to keep this traditional way of letter-pressing alive.

Introducing another of our wonderful bursary winners, Romily Alice. The artist, based in Leeds, experiments with all sorts of art, but is particularly interested in neon.  

In her own words "craftsmanship is important to me; if I want to make something I’ll learn how. My material choices are determined by my ideas but I’m a sucker for neon, textiles and gifs."

She was first introduced to neon bending at Neon Workshops in Wakefield, they are the only neon making school still operating in the UK.

This is Fay McCaul, another of this year's bursary winners. Fay mixes modern materials – fibre optics and iridescent acrylic – with traditional knitting methods to create innovative textiles.

Allow us to introduce one of this year's Transition and Transformation bursary winners, Helen Brittain, from Bristol.

Helen creates handcrafted, artisanal paper made from recycled and waste materials. She loves to experiment with different colours and tones & each sheet of paper is one of a kind, as even sheets made from the same batch of pulp vary from piece to piece.

Helen trained as a molecular biologist, but now sticks to experiments in the studio instead of the lab!