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Hermione Skye founded Skye Studios to bring an artist's process to large-scale commercial installation, work that has to meet the standards of a working restaurant or hotel, without losing the sensitivity that makes it feel considered rather than manufactured.
Her approach is concept-led, but concept and material develop together. Each commission begins with an idea for the space, and equally, with the development of a new technique or material treatment that hasn't been tried before, so the final piece could only have been made for that context. It's a process that carries real risk: some of the most successful pieces have started without a clear idea of how they'd actually be built. That uncertainty is deliberate. It's what pushes the work somewhere unexpected.
Alongside this sits the practical discipline of commercial delivery, fire compliance, installation logistics, working to spec and to deadline within live hospitality environments. Hermione sees these as inseparable: the technical rigour is what earns the freedom to work intuitively.
Hermione has spent the past two years working closely with the Azumi design team, and has delivered installations for Firmdale Hotels, including Ham Yard Hotel and The Whitby Hotel in New York.
Hermione Skye.
Hermione Skye founded Skye Studios to bring an artist's process to large-scale commercial installation: work that must meet the standards of a working restaurant or hotel without losing the sensitivity that makes it feel considered rather than manufactured.
Her approach is concept-led, but concept and material develop together. Each commission begins with an idea for the space and, equally, with a new technique or material treatment that hasn't been tried before, so the final piece could only have been made for that context. It is a process that carries real risk: some of the most successful pieces began without a clear idea of how they would actually be built. That uncertainty is deliberate. It's what pushes the work somewhere unexpected.
Alongside this sits the practical discipline of commercial delivery: fire compliance, installation logistics, and working to spec and to deadline within live hospitality environments. Hermione sees these as inseparable. The technical rigour is what earns the freedom to work intuitively.
She trained in textiles at Chelsea College of Arts and Central St. Martins and continues to deepen her own creativity alongside Skye Studios projects.