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That concrete slab of a table we see when we first enter?

Hsiao’s handmade ceramics and figurines, many of which she cuts out using a cardboard template after rolling the clay flat with a slab roller, exhibit a playful style that is thoroughly her own.

Left, sliced log slabs make decorative plates and platters.

Mr Gray, from Shipley, who started working as a stone dresser in 1997, used power and hand tools to make paving slabs from reclaimed quarried stone.

“We were born and raised here,” Hussein says, gesturing around at slabs of concrete and twisted metal.