About the designer
Richard Malone
Richard Malone (b. 1990; they/them, he/him) is an Irish artist from Wexford whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, performance, textiles, film, and installation. Their work explores ideas of queerness, class, labour, and place, examining how identity is shaped through material language, invisible labour, and social structures. Malone’s research interrogates perceived “truths” surrounding gender, sexuality, and working-class histories, often using techniques such as welding, stitching, weaving, woodwork, and painting.
Malone’s work is held in major international collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2025, they were selected for the John Moores Painting Prize and awarded the Gilbert Bayes Award. From 2026, Malone will have a permanent exhibition space at the V&A East, London.
Misfits
Misfits is an ongoing exploration of glass as a material language — an attempt to translate a soft, moving artistic practice into a medium shaped by heat, resistance, and chance. Designed by Richard Malone for J. Hill's Standard and hand-blown in the Czech Republic by master glassblower Ondřej Novotný, each piece embraces the way glass behaves, misbehaves, settles, and falls into form. Every object is intentionally unique, carrying the trace of the human hand and the histories of labour embedded within it. Part sculpture, part vessel, Misfits inhabit an in-between space — playful, sensual, and slightly unruly — forming a growing family of works that celebrate individuality, dialogue, and the beauty of difference.
