Henrietta MacPhee

Henrietta MacPhee is an artist whose practise is centred in clay. She graduated with a Diploma in Ceramics from City Lit in 2017 and currently works from her studio in South London.

Q&A

Artist Statement

Henrietta’s work has been selected for a number of prestigious shows in the UK including the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth in Wales, the RA Summer Exhibition and the ING Discerning Eye in London.

What craft do you work with?

Ceramics – Clay

What inspires you to work with this craft?

Through a fresh child-like perspective of the world, she portrays scenes of poetic tenderness and humour, interweaving metaphors for embracing life’s diversity of peoples and their cultures.

How do you start your creative process?

Modelling by hand and painting on the clay she creates a language that blends the visual and tangible to create entertaining illusions and a sense of complexity that traverses the border between 2D and 3D.

How would you best describe your workspace and what tools could you not do without?

I have worked in a trompe l’oeil style to paint the symbolic exotic flowers onto a handmade ceramic vase