Artists – Ceramics Now https://www.ceramicsnow.org Contemporary Ceramic Art Magazine Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:33:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-cn-1-32x32.jpg Contemporary ceramic artists featured in Ceramics Now https://www.ceramicsnow.org 32 32 Rachel Grimshaw https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/rachel-grimshaw/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/rachel-grimshaw/#respond Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:33:49 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=31205 Rachel Grimshaw

Rachel Grimshaw (b. 1967) is based in her hometown of Wigan in North England. She attended St Helens School of Art, followed by Manchester Polytechnic (3-dimensional design course, specializing in interior design), graduating with a BA Hons. She has been an Interior Designer within an architectural practice since 1990, hence her ongoing interest in architecture and a sense of place. In 2009, she gained a Distinction in MA in Ceramics at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. Professional Membership of the Craft Potters Association was granted in 2012. Exhibitions have been held widely in the UK, including at Galerie Besson, London, The Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Contemporary Ceramics, London, and Pangolin London sculpture gallery. She was selected to show at Ceramic Art London in 2022 at Central St Martins University of the Arts London.

Her pieces have been exhibited widely beyond the UK in several international competition exhibitions in countries such as Australia, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Latvia, and Japan, where she gained an ‘Honourable Mention’ at MINO in 2014 and was awarded ‘The Land of Pottery’ 2nd prize at the Mallorcan Ceramics Biennale. A solo show in Rome followed a residency at C.R.E.T.A, where she produced a new body of work using locally dug clay, entitled ‘Genius Locii’. In 2023, she was awarded 3rd prize at the XVII International Contemporary Ceramics Award, Cerco, in Zaragoza, Spain.

Rachel Grimshaw’s work is in several international collections, including Mino, Japan, and the Foundation for Contemporary Ceramic Arts in Hungary. She currently sells her work via several online galleries, including Sculpture Source, curated by Pangolin London sculpture gallery.

Visit Rachel Grimshaw’s website and Instagram page.

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Selected works, 2019-2023

Rachel Grimshaw Ceramics
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Kristina Okan https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/kristina-okan/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/kristina-okan/#respond Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:00:41 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=31107 Kristina Okan

Kristina Okan is a visual artist born in Russia. She received her Master in Arts Degree from Stroganov’s Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts in Moscow.

Okan has exhibited her works in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and Asia, including the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany and China. She was nominated for the prestigious international ceramic art award Blanc de Chine in 2019 and 2021 and the Koschatzky Art Award in 2021 – the largest graphic award in Europe for young artists.

In 2022, her work for the Moon Gallery Foundation (the first off-planet gallery) was launched to the International Space Station as a part of an artistic and scientific mission.

In her works, Okan examines the beauty and fragility of the natural world, as well as the transformation of matter under the influence of time. Her sculptural language is rooted in classical European traditions of porcelain art, engaging with themes of transformation, biomorphism, and notions of the micro and macrocosm. Okan combines elements of nature in an unexpected way, thus her works carry both grace and “disturbing strangeness”.

Visit Kristina Okan’s website and Instagram page.

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Selected works, 2022-2023

Kristina Okan Ceramics
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Tomoya Sakai https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/tomoya-sakai/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/tomoya-sakai/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:28:37 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=31039 Tomoya Sakai

Tomoya Sakai is an artist born in Aichi, Japan, in 1989. He studied ceramics at the Nagoya University of Arts and then at the Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center. His ceramic works are part of collections around the world, such as the Faenza International Museum of Ceramic Art in Italy, the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Korea, or the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan.

Tomoya’s works have been selected for significant competitions, such as the 62nd Faenza Prize in Italy, the 12th International Ceramics Competition MINO in Japan, the 10th Korean International Ceramics Biennale in Korea, and the 2020 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, among others.

“I’ve developed a series on the theme of self-memory, other people’s memories, and the memories of time. I have turned various memories into abstract images through clay and pottery wheel techniques, and through making works, I have been thinking about myself and what surrounds me.

A person’s personality and worldview are significantly shaped by their experiences, accumulating over time as memories. Investigating these memories can provide insights into the core of what it means to be human.

I produce shapes with a pottery wheel as if meditating. By exploring the fragments of memories that have sunk into the unconscious and consciously connecting their shapes, I dismantle and reconstruct the imprinted images. Those shapes become “something that looks like something, but that may not be.” I create things that lie between unconsciousness and consciousness or abstraction and concreteness. And then, through unfixed images, I awaken my deep memories and reconsider who I am.

Understanding how different people perceive a specific image can reveal the variations in our perspectives compared to others, prompting us to reflect on our own identities. This awareness of our place within the broader social fabric helps us navigate the complexities of human society and find ways to coexist.”

Visit Tomoya Sakai’s website and Instagram page.

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SPIRIT series, 2023

Tomoya Sakai Ceramic art

Heritage series, 2021-2024

Tomoya Sakai Ceramics

ReCollection series, 2021-2023

Tomoya Sakai Ceramics

Connection series, 2022-2023

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Ines Rother https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/ines-rother/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/ines-rother/#respond Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:27:30 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=30851 Ines Rother

Ines Rother (formerly Hasenberg) is a ceramic artist born in Berlin in 1970. She studied ceramics at the Technical College for Ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany, and shortly after, she opened a studio and gallery in Siegburg, where she organizes workshops and shows her work.

Ines has shown her art in many exhibitions and has been chosen for important competitions such as the XVI Bienal Internacional Cerâmica Artistica Aveiro (Portugal), the 21 Biennal de Ceràmica d’Esplugues Angelina Alós (Spain), or the XVII International Contemporary Ceramics Award Cerco (Spain). Since 2019, she has also joined the International Academy of Ceramics as a member.

“I create ceramic sculptures that are touched by looks and hands, that always show new aspects, make signs, are designated, are walked around, and are looked at from far and near.

Seemingly informal drawings become, on repeated viewing, memories of familiar forms without being permanent, in constant change. My works always offer fascinating signs and images for ever-changing fantasies.

With my works, I create sculptures and surfaces for ceramic painting and drawing, like white sheets and walls. The composition is still made on leather-hard clay, with incisions and engravings. Only after bisque firing at 900° are colored areas applied in layers, partially removed again, overlaid with other colors, and fired at 1,220°. This creates free, multi-layered, irregularly colored areas and fields of different perspectives.

Unsteady small parts, contrasted with large, calm color fields, always in light-dark gradients and often in cold, warm, and complementary contrasts. Linear structures are embedded in the upheaval of the color fields and lead the viewer across three-dimensional images. I create ceramic bodies that give meaning, beauty and context to space,

space to live,
space to animate and
space to experience.”

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Selected works, 2021-2023

Ines Rother Ceramics
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Rose Schreiber https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/rose-schreiber/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/rose-schreiber/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:19:25 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=30738 Rose Schreiber

Rose Schreiber (b. 1988) is a ceramic artist from Chicago, USA. Currently, she is the 2023-2024 Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center (ICRC) at the University of Kansas. In this role, in addition to teaching within the ceramics department, she also teaches a research-based studio art course around the theme of ‘Art and Ecology.’ Through her artwork and research, Rose focuses on the post-natural geologic poetics of ceramic materials.

Outside of the studio, Rose is an organizer, editor, and writer for the Ceramic Materials Atlas, a collaborative storytelling and environmental humanities project linking global industry, environmental ethics, and contemporary ceramics. For her contributions to the Ceramic Materials Atlas, she has been awarded the 2023 inaugural Environmental Sustainability Fellowship from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). The Ceramic Materials Atlas has also received funding from the Center for Craft as well as from the School for Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University.

Rose’s ceramic work is currently on view at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California, as well as at the Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale, where it has received a New Talent Award. She is a 2023 graduate of the Ceramics MFA program at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Prior to ceramics, Rose completed an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Past translation projects focused on Latin American literature through an ecocritical lens.

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Selected works, 2023-Ongoing

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Berenice Hernández https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/berenice-hernandez/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/berenice-hernandez/#respond Thu, 25 Jan 2024 02:10:00 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=30661 Berenice Hernández

Berenice Hernández was born in Mexico City. She works with ceramic sculptures and installations that function as models of imaginary architecture.

In 2015, she moved from Mexico City to Sweden to continue her ceramic education at Leksand Folkhögskola. She received a BFA in ceramics from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) and holds an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm.

Her work has been shown in Mexico, Sweden, and Norway. Recent exhibitions include Assembled Absence at Berg Gallery, Stockholm; Measures of the Void at Norskbilledhoggerforening, Oslo; Alla de otroligt många tillstånd at Kaolin, Stockholm, Taco for two: performance during Stockholm Craft Week, Observations on the means to carry on at Galleri Format, Oslo, and the 8th Biennale of Ceramics at the Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City.

In 2023, Hernández received a grant from the Anglo-Swedish Society for a residency at the Royal College of Art in London. Hernández is represented in the collections of KODE Art Museums of Bergen, Norway, Handelsbankens konstförening and Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, Sweden.

In her work, the act of constructing and deconstructing is fundamental. It starts with layers of clay that she methodically turns into large blocks. She then cuts the blocks into smaller pieces. Sometimes, the cuts are clean and precise; other times, they are crude, resulting in blocks that crumble into fragments. She then uses the blocks as a library of materials for her sculptures, ready to be used in a never-ending cycle of building, deconstruction and rebuilding.

An important part of her practice is the idea that solidity is illusory. Everything shifts. Her sculptures are as much about the cracks, the broken lines, and the flakes that fall off as they are about the structures themselves. For her, what is lost is as present as what remains. Her work then becomes an architecture of what was, what might have been, and what is.

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Selected works, 2018-2023

Berenice Hernández Ceramics
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Kyungmin Park https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/kyungmin-park/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/kyungmin-park/#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:01:03 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=30569 Kyungmin Park

Kyungmin Park is a South Korean-born ceramic artist. Her work explores themes of introspection, diversity, societal expectations, and illuminating human connections across cultures and languages. After two decades in South Korea, she moved to the United States, seeking greater creative opportunities. Experiencing a new language and culture and the many challenges she faced as an immigrant made her realize that figurative sculpture is more than a personal passion. It is a powerful tool to communicate emotions, experiences, and ideas without the limitations that words and customs can impose.

Kyungmin earned her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2008 and her MFA from the University of Georgia in 2012. She currently lives and works in Boston and is an Associate Professor at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. She has conducted over 40 workshops and lectures at various art institutions.

Kyungmin was awarded the 2016 Emerging Artist of the Year from the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, the 2015 Emerging Artist Award by Ceramics Monthly Magazine, and the Matsutani (2014-2015) and Windgate (2015-2016) Fellowships while at the Archie Bray Foundation in MT. She has also participated in artist residencies at AIR Vallauris in France (2011 & 2022), Jingdezhen International Studio in China (2017), Red Lodge Clay Center (2018) in MT, and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (2016) in ME.

Park’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most notably at the Aqua Art Miami Basel, SOFA Chicago, The Clay Studio in PA, Scripps College Ceramic Annual in CA, Penland School of Crafts in NC, Arrowmont School of Arts in TN, Fuller Craft Museum in MA, Museum of Arts and Science in GA, The Museum of Contemporary of Georgia, Canton Museum of Art in OH, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in AL along with a multitude of galleries, including Abel Contemporary, Abmeyer + Wood, Belger Arts Center, Cerbera, Companion, Duane Reed, Eutectic, Kolva-Sulivan, Lacoste, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Lillstreet Art Center, Morean Art Center, Signature galleries, to name a few.

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Selected works, 2018-2023

Kyungmin Park Ceramics
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Kensuke Yamada https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/kensuke-yamada/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/kensuke-yamada/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:16:51 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=30405 Kensuke Yamada

Kensuke Yamada (b. 1979) is an artist born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. He received his MFA from the University of Montana in 2009 and has a BA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Kensuke has participated in artist residency programs at The Archie Bray Foundation (Montana) and The Clay Studio Philadelphia (Philadelphia). His work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and he presents numerous workshops and lectures throughout the states. He was also a visiting artist and instructor at Tyler School of Art and Architecture and the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville). He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, AR. Yamada is a sculptor who creates layered narratives within his figurative works.

“I moved to the United States from Japan a little over 20 years ago as a foreign exchange student. My story begins with the limited knowledge of the English language I came here with. My primary commonality with other people and my surroundings was human gestures: facial expressions, body motions, the darting of a hand, or the blinking of an eye.

In my struggle to learn the language and communicate through speech, I gained a strong empathy for the universal experiences that seem to provide the undercurrent to language through art. I gained awareness of the complexities of our daily functions and the social infrastructures that subtly guide these interactions.

In my sculpture, I seek figurative extensions of these shared experiences. The vocabulary consists of gestures, patterns, textures, colors and rhythms. In conversation, these qualities bring the figure to life.

With clay, I look for sculptural conversations that evoke the beauty, the subtleties, the sadness, and the humor of our everyday life. Viewing my sculpture, I hope people enjoy the moment, rather than the movement of time. I hope for my work to fill the space between two seemingly distant things, to provide a connection and thus create the story of you and me.”

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Selected works, 2021-2024

Kensuke Yamada Ceramics
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Jacaranda Kori https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/jacaranda-kori/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/jacaranda-kori/#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:40:38 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=30343 Jacaranda Kori

Jacaranda Kori was born in Mexico City in 1966 and immigrated to Israel in 1987, an experience that significantly shaped her art, blending elements of these two rich cultures.

She graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1991 and later earned a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Arts from Tel Aviv University in 2021. In 1992, Kori founded her own ceramic studio in Tel Aviv, where she has been creating ceramic art ever since. Balancing her roles as both an artist and an educator, she has held the position of Senior Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Art and Design since 2007.

Kori’s talent has been recognized with multiple prizes and awards, and her art has been presented in solo exhibitions in Israel and group exhibitions on the global stage, such as SOFA – The International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art in Chicago, USA, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, USA. She has also been featured in the Premier Biennale des Creatrices Mediterraneennes in Marseilles and numerous Biennales for Israeli Ceramics at the Eretz Israel Museum in Israel.

Kori’s dedication to her craft has led her to participate in various national and international residencies, including her role as a Guest Artist at the 28th International Symposium of Ceramics at SUNY New Paltz, New York, USA, as well as residencies at Watershed in Maine, USA, and Drexel University Art and Art History Department in Philadelphia, USA. Since 2006, Jacaranda Kori has been a distinguished represented artist with AIDA, the Association of Israeli Decorative Arts and her work is being sold around the world to individuals and collectors.

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Becoming Plastic, 2022

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Maria Diletta Rondoni https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/maria-diletta-rondoni/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/maria-diletta-rondoni/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:43:04 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=30258 Maria Diletta Rondoni

Maria Diletta Rondoni is an Italian artist based in Umbria, Italy. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia in 2012, majoring in painting, her artistic research explored possibilities from different materials, such as ceramic, metalworking, and glass. She focused her interest on clay, taking classes in the traditional ceramic town of Deruta, where she learned ancient techniques such as Etruscan bucchero, terra sigillata, and Maiolica. In 2017, she studied porcelain techniques at the FACC-Faenza Art Ceramic Center, Faenza, Italy. In 2016, she set up her own ceramic studio, where she developed her ceramic practice.

Over the last few years, she traveled to Europe, Sri Lanka, and Australia. These travels inspired her artworks and her aesthetic vision. In the summer of 2021 and 2022, she was in residence at Guldagergaard- International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark – for three months during residency. Among the most important group exhibitions: Collect Art Fair, with Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Somerset House, London, 2023; Young Masters Art Prize autumn exhibition, Gainsborough Hotel, London, 2022; Claytopia summer exhibition at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Center, Skealskor 2022; Flora Danica, Apple House-Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark, 2021; Matres, International Festival of Ceramics for Women, Ceramics Museum of Deruta, Perugia, 2019; XI International Exhibition for Ceramic Artists, Third Prize Winner, Museo Muda, Albissola Marina, Savona, 2018; No Place Space 4, Spazio Ex Ceramiche Vaccari, Santo Stefano di Magra, Sarzana, 2018; Evolving, Galleria ArtEspressione, Milano, 2014. Her artworks are part of private collections in Italy and abroad.

Visit Maria Diletta Rondoni’s website and Instagram page.

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Selected works, 2021-2023

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Amélie Proulx https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/amelie-proulx/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/amelie-proulx/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:02:35 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=29703 Amélie Proulx

Amélie Proulx is an artist living and working in Lévis, Québec, Canada. She received a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal (2006) and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax (2010). Her artwork has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Australia, Scotland and France. In 2013, she received the RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, and the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics in 2016 at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. In 2021, she received the Prix Videre Création en arts visuels awarded by Manif d’Art. Since 2019, she has been making public artwork for different public spaces in the province of Québec. Her public art practice allows her to work on bigger and more ambitious projects that are permanently installed in different public settings. She has also participated in several residencies, notably at the European Ceramic Work Centre (The Netherlands, 2014) and the arts/industry residency at Kohler Co. (Wisconsin, 2017). She teaches ceramics at the Maison des métiers d’art de Québec and Concordia University in Montréal. Her work is found in several public and private collections, most notably the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She is represented by Chiguer Art Contemporain.

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Les horizons marqueurs, 2022-2023

Amélie Proulx Ceramics

Les eaux composées, 2020

Amélie Proulx Ceramics

Les herbes de passage, 2020

Amélie Proulx Ceramic art

Paragenèse, 2021

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Nitsa Meletopoulos https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/nitsa-meletopoulos/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/nitsa-meletopoulos/#respond Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:23:58 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=29456 Nitsa Meletopoulos

Nitsa Meletopoulos lives and works in Burgundy, France. She was born in the South of France in 1984. The first time she played with clay was in her father’s workshop, a glazed earthenware potter. Later, she started studying art and psychoanalysis at Montpellier University between 2004 and 2007 with one BA in fine arts and one MA in Esthetics. Then, she went to the art school of Avignon, where she graduated with her MA in 2010. At that time, she made mixed-media sculptures and installations. In 2014, during an artistic residency in Leipzig, she started working with clay. She then lived there for four years, working for a ceramic factory as well as managing the French-German cultural platform and residency “Fugitif”. In 2018, she returned to France to strengthen her ceramic skills at Maison de la Céramique de Dieulefit. Alongside her personal work, she created the project “Duo Vertigo” with Victor Alarcon.

Her work has been acquired by the collection of the Grassi Museum of Applied Art of Leipzig, the Museum of Carouge in Switzerland, and the collection of Moly Sabata in France, as well as by several private collectors. Nitsa exhibited her work at various fairs, museums, and galleries nationally and internationally, including the COLLECTIBLE design fair in Brussels, the Belgian art and design fair PRELUDE, the gallery CHAPELLE XIV in Paris, the COMO LAKE DESIGN FESTIVAL in Italy, gallery DROSDE in Berlin, several contemporary art center in France: CRAC 19 in Montbéliard, MO.CO in Montpellier and LA TOLERIE in Clermont Ferrand. Since 2019, she has collaborated with the gallery Fracas in Brussels, Volume Ceramics in Paris, Shebamart Gallery in Leipzig, Moly Sabata and Gallery Tatiss in France, Kitte in Madrid, and the design galleries Superhouse and Rhett Baruch in New York and Los Angeles.

Visit Nitsa Meletopoulos’ website and Instagram page.

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Selected works, 2019-2023

Nitsa Meletopoulos Ceramics
Nitsa Meletopoulos contemporary ceramics

Stones Smell Good When You Cuddle Them, 2023

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Grotto-Modo, 2022

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Duo Vertigo, 2020-2023

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Brian Molanphy https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/brian-molanphy/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/brian-molanphy/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:45:32 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=29299 Brian Molanphy

Brian Molanphy’s attention to flux, endurance, transgression, and history informs his art, first accomplished through books and muck. As a bookmaker and baker, he learned to apprehend the world through containers. Coupled with the muck of paper pulp, printer’s ink, pastry cream, and bread dough, containment led to ceramics. He graduated magna cum laude with Distinction in Art from Colorado College. A university fellowship was provided for an M.F.A. in ceramics from Pennsylvania State University (PSU). Fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Camargo Foundation, and the Brown Foundation brought him to France for several projects. He taught at Colorado College, PSU, and the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD), and he now teaches at Southern Methodist University (SMU), where he is Professor of Art at the Meadows School of the Arts. SMU’s President’s Partners grant, University Research Council grants, Meadows Summer Fellowship, Meadows Faculty Development grants, and Division of Art grants as well as Sam Taylor Fellowships have supported his research. Molanphy has lectured and participated in panel discussions for the Newberry Library, the Franco-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), the Nasher Sculpture Center, and several universities. Molanphy is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the International Academy of Ceramics, and is represented in public and private collections in North America, East Asia, and Europe.

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Selected works, 2020-2023

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Eva Pelechová https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/eva-pelechova/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/eva-pelechova/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:56:26 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=29155 Eva Pelechová

Eva Pelechová (*1984) first studied ceramic design at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště, CZ, on which she followed up in the Studio of Ceramics and Porcelain at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (2004–2010), with internships at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, the Academy of Arts, Tallinn, EE, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE. Before founding a conceptual design manufacture Hidden Factory together with ceramic designer and teacher Gabriel Vach, jr., in 2012 Pelechová engaged in performance art at the Muffathalle, Munich, under the direction of Dali Touiti. In 2016 she led the Studio of Ceramic Design at the Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia at Pilsen, as guest professor. In 2017, Pelechová became the director of the International Symposium of Ceramics in Bechyně, CZ, which has since seen two installments under her leadership.

Pelechová participates regularly in international group exhibitions and symposia. Standout events include in 2010 and 2018, the European Ceramic Context, Bornholm, DK; in 2012, the 48th Ceramics Symposium (BOK), Boleslawiec, PL; in 2014, the Waking-up Dragon exhibition, National Gallery Prague; in 2015, Pelechová took part in the Gmunden Ceramics Symposium, AT, the same year and a year on she exhibited at the 59th and 60th MIC Faenza Prize, in 2019 participated in the 1st International Ceramics Symposium in Sheki, AZ, and The Inner Colour, Installation and Performance Festival, Montelupo Fiorentino, IT, and in 2020 was invited to show her work at the Beijing Guozhong Ceramic Art Museum.

Pelechová holds several prestigious awards and competition placements, e.g., 1st prizes from the Rosenthal Design Award and the 25° Grottaglie Prize, Honourable mention at the International Ceramics Festival 17 Mino, JP, or placing among finalists at the Taiwan Ceramics Biennial International Competition.

Her work is represented internationally, e.g., at the International Ceramics Studio Kecskemét, HU, the ICCA Blanc de Chine, Dehua, CN, the International Museum of Ceramics, Grottaglie, IT, the MIC Faenza, IT, the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, TW, the International Ceramic Center, Boleslawiec, or the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague. Pelechová is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and lives and works in Prague.

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Selected works, 2015-2021

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Diana Butucariu https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/diana-butucariu/ https://www.ceramicsnow.org/artists/diana-butucariu/#respond Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:56:51 +0000 https://www.ceramicsnow.org/?p=29054 Diana Butucariu

Diana Butucariu, born in 1990, is a ceramics and glass artist from Bucharest. After her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Art in Bucharest, she moved to Stockholm in 2011 to study for a Master’s degree at Konstfack University of Applied Arts, with a project about cultural belonging and heritage. Later, she did a one-year research programme at the same school, making stained-glass scenes on effects of industrialization and deindustrialization for cultural heritage in Sweden. Currently, Diana is a PhD student at the National University of Art in Bucharest, on the subject of sustainability in ceramic art, and shares her time between Bucharest and the Swedish countryside.

Diana grew up with crafts always present. She was often helping out in her father’s glass studio, and spent the summers in the Romanian countryside, where many traditional handicraft techniques are still commonly practiced. As an adult, she has continued to learn different craft techniques and materials, for example by learning book and document restoration at the National History Museum in Bucharest, and working as a wood and textile teacher in Swedish elementary and secondary school.

In her artistic practice, Diana has often worked in inter and transdisciplinary settings, utilizing techniques and methods from other fields such as music, animation, programming and video, and has made land art, video art and performance art projects together with other artists. She makes ceramics in her studio at the crafts collective G-Studion, housed in the old porcelain factory in Gustavsberg outside Stockholm, and participates in exhibitions around Europe and beyond.

Diana is passionate about international collaboration, cultural exchange and knowledge sharing. Since 2022, she has been a member of the International Academy of Ceramics which promotes ceramics culture by bringing together people within the field from around the world. Recently, Diana moved from Stockholm to a farmhouse in the Norrland region of Sweden. There she hopes to be able to invite both ceramicists and other artists to work together, with inspiration from the closeness to nature.

Visit Diana Butucariu’s website and Instagram page.

Featured work

Templum, 2016-2022

Diana Butucariu Ceramics

Modular Concept, 2019-2022

Diana Butucariu Ceramics

Mossy, 2021-2022

Diana Butucariu Ceramics

Raw Clay, 2022

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