Royal College of Art: p3 Ceramics & Glass

Alice Foxen (Top left) Inert matter, live wire. Porcelain, glaze and foam. While walking through urban spaces she is curious. Streets are often influx.

Zixuan Wang Salvation. Porcelain. (Above)The focus is to express the work together with the properties of the material. Zoe Weisselberg (top right) Imaginarium. Paper porcelain and glaze.The work involves a sense of jeopardy and improvisation.

Isidoro Rodrguez Urban Vessels. Local London Blue wild clay. The work is related to the space and time in which we live.

Central Saint Martins

Degree Show 2022

This is the first show since the Pandemic subsided and allowing the public to visit the college. A very welcome return.

Tony Quinn the Course Leader in BA Ceramic Design made the following points in the catalogues introduction. “The last few years have been extremely tough for everyone across the art school community. The students exhibiting here have shown great fortitude, patience and tenacity with all three years of study impacted in one form or another by the Pandemic. From lockdown learning, online teaching with students working in improvised home studios in the kitchen or shed, to mask wearing and social distancing in the ceramic studios. This has been one of the most complex and strange periods of time for our course community, ever! “One constant during this turmoil has been our connection with the supercharged emotional material clay. In one respect we have been lucky to have this ubiquitous, transformative and rogue material keeping us on our toes, keeping us honest, keeping us engaged! As educators we had the problem, how do we keep our students engaged and enthused, learning a visceral experimental discipline online. The answer was simple in the end, we sent them clay!

“The students have mastered the Pandemic, they have mastered their ideas, the processes and techniques and they have stayed connected and in tune with clay. If they can so all that and produce amazing work, then they can pretty well much do anything”.

Students:

Ben Nicholls Chloe Coding Erica Tung Fiona Tran Joanna Aymard Kaitlyn Rose Barnes Layla Simner-Lock Louise Gooden Lucy Quinlan Nicha Lapevisuthisaroj Oriona Sejdiu Paprika Skala Williams Ruby Cheng Wai Sin Saachi Dubey Sarah Beresford Shao Qi Tan Tracey Stapleton Victoria Coxall Vidhu Patel Vlad Andrusceac

Ben Nicholls (above) He originates from Kent and now lives in London. His work has led him to investigate his interest in the typology of thrown forms, and his travels has significantly impacted on the work.

Chloe Coding She was

born and lives in London. An artist and ceramicist whose practice is focused on the exploration of surface desgn and print. Her forms are from hand-building techniques such as coiling and slab-building. These skeleton creations are then used as a canvas in which pattern, colour and illustration are applied.

Kaitlyn Rose Barnes

Her practice is a material investigation into Egyptian paste.

Layla Simner-Lock

(left) Her work aims to subvert people’s expectations of the medium by creating pieces that intrigue and deceive. The current work is born out of a recent obsession with weaponry.

Oriona Sejdiu

Her research has allowed her to develop over 200 glazes. She uses cupcakes to bring a sense of playfulness behind the work.

Sarah Beresford

Orginally from Lancaster, she draws inspiration from unfinished cooking pots. The nature of these pots simultaneously signifies the unfinished nature of women’s work.

Papprika Skala

Williams from Poland (below). The plate design was developed while at the Cmielow Porcelain Factory in Poland, Subsequently shortlisted at the London Design Festival.

Ruby Cheng Wai Sin (above is a Hong Kongnative conceptual artist and ceramic storyteller focusing on provoking empathy and emotional connections.

Victoria Coxall (above) is an

environmental artist and founder of Slow Ceramic. All the materials used in her designs, inchluding sculptural pieces, are either recycled or locally sourced and represent the embodiment of a lifestyle.

Tracey Stapleton works and lives in Essex, on the boarder with London. She makes tiles using photographs and other images. All of the tile designs produced in her final year are symbolic to the artist as they hold a memory or significance from a time and place.

She has exceptional carving skills which allow her to bring two-dimensional images into three dimensions using relief work with clay.