“A lot of the jobs I had before shaped me. They gave me life lessons and skills I still apply to this day – from cleaning drains to high-pressure water jetting, plumbing, production lines and more. They gave me an understanding of how things work and what makes great design.”
Sam joined the Exiled team on a freelance basis before coming on full-time, drawn in by the open brief, the creative freedom, the materials and the people. His domain is digital fabrication alongside material reuse. His 3D printers are, in his own words, works of art in themselves: compact machines with impeccable design and enormous capability.
His favoured material is cosmetic plastic waste: separating out colour mixtures, experimenting with injection moulds, designing new ones to sit alongside the textile work coming out of the studio.
For Exiled, he makes 3D-printed jewellery. He wants whoever owns a piece to understand its full history: the design decisions, the material's life – and the fact that it can be taken apart and remade into something else. The circularity is not incidental. It is the point.
