Emerging Potters – Issue 20
RCA Show 2020
Elly Glossop
Born in Edinburgh, and raised in Australia, Elly moved to Denmark where she studied for a BA in Ceramics at the Royal Danish Design School on Bornholm in 2014. She graduated receiving the prestigious National Banks Jubilee Fund (travel grant) for her development during this period of study. In 2018 she began her MA studies at The Royal College of Art, receiving the Charlotte Fraser Prize in the first term for her V&A project Accretions.
In her most recent work blocks of strata are constructed in layers from both natural and man made materials, dipped in clay; which are burnt away; alluding to the transient nature of our existence.
Currently this work is in the early stages, and these exact pieces are 15cm x 9cm. The initial tests use the fluidity of porcelain slip to encompass and petrify a range of added materials, exploring the relationships between surface and
In 2019 Elly was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust and most recently she has been awarded the RJ Washington Prize for her graduation portfolio of practice.
Contact: elly.glossop@network. rca.ac.uk
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substance, what is hidden and what is concealed. Cross sections reveal all that is contained in these layers, as copper growths emerging from surfaces through layers of heavy oxides in the process of electroforming.
