A big thank you to Northern based artist
Norrie Harman who has kindly completed ‘the look’ to one of Funktion Alley’s new design displays at the Redbrick Mill showroom. Norrie, noted within the art community for creating abstract optimism from neglected architecture and public spaces, applied his distinctive talents to a backdrop for the launch of the Stua outdoor collection.

A former winner of the Academy Latimer Award for outstanding young Scottish Painter, Harman graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2001. He moved to Yorkshire in the same year to work as a community artist at the Rhodesway School in Allerton, Bradford and then taught at the Leeds College of Art and Design. In 2005 Harman gave up his teaching role to become a full-time artist and recently exhibited his new collection of portrait paintings and industrial landscapes at the Artco Gallery in Leeds.

He is currently curating an exhibition of applied arts in his own Gallery in Redbrick Mill which opens on July 8.