Trained in sculpture, basket making and product design, I am a designer and maker of, baskets, furniture, and art works. These artefacts combine the techniques and often the forms of basketry with the detritus of consumerism and the natural materials, of my immediate environment.
Lois Walpole 2025
Publication of
KISHIES and CUDDIES, A guide to the Traditional Basketry of Shetland. By Lois Walpole with contributors Dr Stephanie Bunn, Ewen Balfour, Helen Balfour and Eve Eunson.
Published July 2025 by Lois Walpole. Full details are on the Shop page.

Exhibitions
Won't Sit Still
Manchester Art Gallery, UK
26 March 2026- 28 March 2027
A celebration of the gallery's furniture and lighting collection.