Meet the Author
Tala Hajjar
With a background in design and collaborations with notable fashion and jewellery houses, Tala Hajjar went on to co-found the Starch Foundation, championing new creative talent across disciplines. Over time, her practice expanded beyond design into a more personal exploration of form, stillness, and the everyday. Today, she works across ceramics and photography, shaping a visual language that is both contemplative and quietly playful. Her ceramic creatures — anthropomorphic, witty, and functional — sit alongside her photographic studies of time and pause, revealing a consistent curiosity for objects, gestures, and the spaces between them. Her work moves easily between disciplines, always returning to a deep attention to detail, materiality, and the poetry of the ordinary.