TEA AND A CHAT

“We have many similarities and few creative differences.”

Hi, I’m Liv Cave-Sutherland! My sister Dom and I are ceramicists and illustrators, and together we run Liv & Dom. Working as– we have many similarities and few creative differences. When we were kids, our Mum always encouraged our creative endeavours. Some of our earliest projects together include a collection of Fimo bunny sculptures, clothes for our Beanie Babies, and a short animation about mice going berry picking – very labour intensive for a pair of 11-year-olds! These projects were unknowingly practise runs for our future careers. Working together came naturally, but at university. We ignored this advice though, knowing we were stronger pooling our individual strengths. Fast forward to now and that’s how it’s gone. Dom is extremely neat, which led to great quality control – sometimes to my annoyance. She got into using clay first, and is naturally good at sculpting. without which I think we wouldn’t have been as successful. I have a looser style, and enjoy adapting a theme – the nude female form – into many areas, so I do the bulk of our illustration work. Having a business relationship as well as nurturing a sisterhood is sometimes tricky, but we wouldn’t have it any other way!