EMMA SAFFY WILSON
Cornwall based artist Emma saffy Wilson has delivered arts projects in galleries, museums and community based settings, whilst also continuing her own studio practice. Graduating from Falmouth University in 2000, During her Studio Ceramics Degree, students were taken to source and dig their own clay, Emma found the immediacy of this fascinating & soon began to only work with material dug herself which then lead to working just with soil, regardless of clay content.
Emma is inspired by these natural mediums and materials and their fragility and often disregarded nature. a playful and inquisitive nature combines the raw earthy material, dirt, mud and clay, evolving the material into something collectable and beautiful.
Making references to the playful childhood attraction to dirt in works and taking an alternative, often humorous, view of the negative connotations in western languag regarding dirt, earth and soil. The ‘dirt’ I collect from various sites can often feel ‘charged’ and I am drawn to create works being lead by this. A regular meditative practice of mine is making Hikaru Dorodangos (shiny mud balls) out of different earth I’ve gathered.
Emma produces fascinating textural works using both throwing and hand forming techniques.
EXPLORE AVAILABLE WORKS
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
These larger vessels are handbuilt from stoneware clay combined with dirt gathered from sacred sites and embedded with fragments of Emma’s broken ceramics. Each piece carries the marks of chance firing and the history of reclaimed and gathered materials.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
APPROXIMATE SIZE- 20cm x 20cm
These larger vessels are handbuilt from stoneware clay combined with dirt gathered from sacred sites and embedded with fragments of Emma’s broken ceramics. Each piece carries the marks of chance firing and the history of reclaimed and gathered materials.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
APPROXIMATE SIZE- 20cm x 20cm
These larger vessels are handbuilt from stoneware clay combined with dirt gathered from sacred sites and embedded with fragments of Emma’s broken ceramics. Each piece carries the marks of chance firing and the history of reclaimed and gathered materials.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
APPROXIMATE SIZE- 20cm x 20cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
These larger vessels are handbuilt from stoneware clay combined with dirt gathered from sacred sites and embedded with fragments of Emma’s broken ceramics. Each piece carries the marks of chance firing and the history of reclaimed and gathered materials.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
APPROXIMATE SIZE- 20cm x 20cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm
Handheld ceramic vessels that blend dirt from sacred sites, fragments from past works and fire.
Moonroot is a mythic word, a hidden connection between the lunar and the earthly. Like artefacts from an unknown ritual, these vessels dwell in ambiguity, memory and imagined ceremony.
“I'm interested in ritual objects found in museums and sacred sites, those whose meanings have faded, been lost, or were never known.”
SIZE- 9cm x 9cm