UCA Craft Residency 2025-2026

You & I are, Earth

October 2025

October was a month full of travelling and showing work. I shared work made during my first year as Craft Artist-in-Residence at UCA at Stockholm Craft Week and Farnham Craft Month. Below are a few pictures from the Farnham Craft Month exhibition Material Treasures. The Stockholm Craft Week exhibition Gränstrakter, can be seen here. 

For both of these exhibitions I thought a lot about display and how to situate the work. What story should I tell? How should this work feel? The ceramic pieces I chose to show, I often refer to as 'Space Rocks'. They feel alien in their light weight, colours and patterns. However, they are very earthly! Made from minerals which are mined all over our planet by humans, transported and processed by humans, to eventually be transformed by my own human hand in to ceramic art. I wanted to communicate this alluring otherworldy familiarity. I took inspiration from The Utah Monolith, The Fifth Element (1997), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Anish Kapoor's Vantablack pieces. 

November 2025

Both exhibitions came and went. Once we entered November I was back in the studio making. 

UCA has a gas kiln. During my first year as Craft Artist-in-Residence I had not tried it. For the matter of fact, I had never ever gas fired anything. It was about time. I made a few tiny cast rocks, based on rocks found close to UCA, and placed them in the firing.  

Not expecting anything, I was very pleasantly surpised. Maybe my work was supposed to be gas fired!

Maybe it was the strong presence of water as heavy rain or as the stream where my original big rock now resided, but I got the urge to wash my gas fired rocks. In doing so I discovered that they float!