


Belgré is the creative practice of multi-disciplinary artist and material researcher Belinda Gredig. Combining a fragment of her name with the French gré, a word evoking inclination, movement and being guided by natural forces. It reflects a material-led practice where form emerges through dialogue with fibre and glass.
Guided by material intelligence and a deep respect for craft, each piece investigates transformation, embodied knowledge and the relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. Rooted in ecological thinking, the practice embraces making as a process of listening, collaboration and becoming. Sculpting through hand-spinning, hand-weaving and flameworking, the pieces are tactile constellations that move between textile, glass and wearable sculpture. By bringing fibre and glass into dialogue, she develops a distinctive material language that reflects on resilience and speculative material futures. Originally trained in bespoke tailoring, Gredig holds a First Class BA (Hons) in Fashion Design with Knitwear from Central Saint Martins, London and an MA in Textile and Fashion Design (specialising in weaving), from the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås. Alongside her textile education, specialised training and studio practice across Sweden, Germany and the UK have deepened her engagement with flameworked glass, expanding the material vocabulary of her interdisciplinary practice. She is the recipient of the Ashford Textile Award (2026) and the Award for Best Fashion Design at the Bilbao International Art & Fashion (BIAAF) Biennial (2024). With her MA: Curiosities handwoven-to-form, she received a scholarship from the Swedish Weaving Council. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at VÄV24, Dutch Design Week, Bilbao Art & Fashion, Textile Museum in Borås and the Museum of Glass Art in Lauscha, Germany. Gredig is currently developing a new body of work between her weaving studio in Solingen and a glass workshop in Lauscha, continuing her research into the transformative dialogue between stinging nettle fibre and glass.