Renate Thor

Renate co-manages the print workshop alongside Erling. Always in a great mood, she brings bucketloads of knowledge and motivation to our users, making sure there’s room for experimentation, without loosing track of the quality of the finished piece.

She’s got a specific interest for the analog aspects of screen printing, and brings a playful and vibrant perspective to the printing technique. 

Renate's from Trøndelag, but has been living and working in Oslo for the last ten years. She’s an MA in illustration from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and when not with us, she works tirelessly as a talented illustrator and graphic artist. You might also bump in to her in a park, playing with her dog Arthur.
 

Matthew Roach

Matthew co-manages the digital manufacturing with Jack and Siemen. Matthew's a true people person, and will always greet you with a smile - and sincere curiosity for your project.

For years he's been a central instigator at Bitraf, one of Oslos largest makerspaces. He’ll always go the extra mile to help our users realise their projects, whether it be based on design, milling, laser-cutting or simply assembling the final piece. 

Outside of Fellesverkstedet, Matthew is working on opening his own clubbing-gym. He’s probably the most active guy you’ll ever meet - in other words, he’ll give you a hand with your material!
 

Jack Hughes

Jack co-manages digital manufacturing together with Siemen and Matthew. He’s like, the nicest guy, and bends over backwards helping our users get to grips with digital production. He’s originally from Ireland, but has been living in Oslo since 2017. He trained as an architect at Glasgow School of Art and AHO. When he is not with us, Jack runs Makershub together with his business partner Else and a whole load of volunteers, designing and making the world a better place. This is a man of many talents, even making music (Get him to play some tunes!). We love Jack!

David Slotvik

David runs the woodshop (he’s wicked with wood!) but he’s also the glue that holds us all together. Multi talented, he knows every machine in the workshop and can turn his hand to pretty much anything. Whether it be managing our logistics, keeping our machines running, making improvements to our facilities or simply giving everyone a helping hand, David keeps us rolling! We should probably also mention he’s obsessed with Frisbee golf!

Christina Stensland

Christina runs front of house and manages our communication. She’s the first face most will meet and she’s just great. Don’t be fooled by that smile, she’s from up North, pretty hardcore, and is super smart! Christina's from the realm of Hamsun and can a thing about words and books, her background is in literature and when not with us, she's working freelance in the literary field. Christina keeps us on the straight and narrow, and makes order out of chaos, without her we’d just be bouncing our heads off the walls!

Erling Knudsen

Erling co-manages the print workshop alongside Renate and has been our in-house graphic designer from the very beginning. Erling is both highly skilled as artist and designer - this guy knows print!

As one of the founding fathers of Fellesverkstedet, he launched and ran the workshop's first incarnation, the silkscreen studio Automaton, together with Graham. He has been a crucial driving force from before Fellesverkstedets infancy, building it strategically and patiently over time.
 
Erling split his time for several years between Barcelona and Oslo but is now settled back in Oslo. When he's not with us or working on one of his projects, such as publishing artist books on Armadillo, he works as a freelance illustrator and does commisioned printing for a wide range of artists.

Siemen Cuypers

Siemen co-manages digital manufacturing together with Jack and Matthew. He is a talented product designer with a Master of Art from Luca School of Art in Gent, Belgium. To our great fortune he moved from Belgium to Norway in 2015, and learned norwegian in no-time. With his friendly and calm attitude, he makes the users feel comfortable handling the CNC-mill. Siemen is a You've-got-this kind of guy.

When he is not here, he does freelance work spanning product design, CNC production and digital modelling. Siemen was involved in producing furniture for Biblo Tøyen, Deichmanske Bibliotek Grünlerløkka and Teknisk Museum. He is also an authorized Rhino-trainer (the program, not the animal), so if you're just getting started with 3D-modelling, you'll be in good hands.

Graham Hayward

The heart and soul of the entire organisation. Fellesverkstedet started with Graham having a crazy dream, but to our benefit, Graham makes dreams come true – on a large scale! He aspires to know everything, what he doesn’t know, he learns.

He's been working tirelessly and fearlessly for more than a decade, whether it be by helping users on the workshop floor, lobbying for funding or developing our organisational model. Starting with the screen-print initiative Automaton with Erling, then the pilot project in Grønland and now the establishment of Fellesverkstedet in Seilduksgata, our managing director inspires the staff and users to not just dream, but do so big! His contagious attitude fuels our organisation – and way beyond.

Graham is originally from Birmingham in the UK and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and has been living in Norway since 2005. Right now he’s also building a house with his family on Nesodden. You see: Graham rarely sits still!