Our Makers
Robin Grasby
Grasby makes it look simple, working a modern day version of terrazzo, made from reclaimed and recycled marble, into masterpiece.
Our maker behind the sculptural furniture pieces, used for our creative workshops or simply for solo working, our terrazzo room shelves and our bar front inspired by the M62 that circulates our city. Cigarette butts, weeds, flowers all set in a resin to create a bar you want to eat, drink and soak in The Alan’s atmosphere.
Mika Kaski
Kaski works with marble and combines them with wood, stone, ceramics and metal to design shapes and lighting which integrate with the environment.
Our maker behind the kinetic light fittings in the ground floor public areas, the swivel lights for your in-room desk space and the alabaster bedside lights, giving our guests a calming turndown. Mika’s lights help transform the energy of the room, depending on how you are feeling.
Nicola Morland
Nicola is a multitalented artist and sculptor. She works with ceramics, print and illustration. Her work is striking, working with colour blocking and line work simultaneously.
Our maker behind the bedside lampshades. All individually hand painted with enamel. Each unique, with a slightly different colour pallet.
Kimberley Beesley
Kimberley’s work is an exploration of intuitive mark making coupled with an attention to the legacies and processes of abstract painting.
Depicting an engagement with the spontaneous nature of expressive imagery through scribbles and unpredictable tension translated through the profile of colour and texture. These approaches are brought to life whilst finding a balance between spontaneous bursts of joyful expression and, on occasion, calculated annotations describing the interchange between both text and symbols.
Manuel Salazar
Salazar’s art feels rousing, striking and unfamiliar, emotions which he experienced when he began painting in his South Manchester flat during the 2020 lockdowns.
‘The melodies, bass lines and intricacies of musicians’ work are reflected in Manuel’s vibrant colours, staccato stripes and sweeping brushstrokes, allowing audiences to be completely encapsulated by the music, even if they are viewing in complete silence.
Whilst being abstract in genre, audiences can draw upon music, society’s happenings and their own personal experiences to create meaning in the work, where even the smallest brushstroke can open a myriad of doors within the mind.’
Georgi Clarke
Georgi is a singer and songwriter from Cheshire, studying at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester as a multi-instrumentalist, musical arranger, and composer.
Our maker behind The Alan’s ‘Soundtrack to your Stay’ titled ‘Good Vibes’, an instrumental piece available for guests and influencers to use in their social media content, sitting within the Pop genre with electronic elements evoking feelings of positivity, happiness, and good vibes.
Louise Hawthorn
Distort Design is the work of artist and photographer Louise Hawthorn, a Goldsmith Fine Art Textiles graduate based in Cheshire. Her current collection explores urban life, celebrating cities she loves through photography and printmaking. Louise’s mixed media collages combine her own photos of iconic architecture with fragments of vintage posters, shop signs, and travel memorabilia, evoking a layered glimpse of the past. Using a gel transfer process, she blends these elements into digital cityscape photomontages, merging past and present.
Antonia Patricia Miller
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We are always looking for new artwork, wether it be for our lobby projectors or one of our events spaces.
