Elizabeth Jackson
My practice centres around using visceral language as a catalyst for intuitive making
Q&A
Artist Statement
I create compositions comprised of ceramic slip cast objects and hand built gestures which oscillate between the familiar and the otherworldly, the everyday and the abstract, the rapidly formed and the pored over.
What craft do you work with?
Ceramics
What inspires you to work with this craft?
At the heart of my process is a concern with embodied modes of knowledge production and the transformation of clay into something, rooted in knowledge that can’t quite be explained verbally but is activated within us.
How do you start your creative process?
Playing with techniques, texture, colour, scale and form my work invites the viewer on a journey of visual association and intrigue
Media & Contact
Location
London, United Kingdom
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