About
Elizabeth Jackson (b.1991) lives and works in London. In 2013 she graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins and in 2021 with a MA in Ceramics & Glass from the RCA. On graduating she was awarded the Anglo Swedish Exchange Residency at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work has been exhibited at the Ingram Prize where she was a 2021 finalist and the British Ceramic Biennial.
Statement
Using visceral language as a catalyst for intuitive making, I create compositions comprised of slipcast found objects and handbuilt gestures.
They oscillate between
the familiar and the otherworldly
the everyday and the abstract
the rapidly formed and the pored over
Playing with techniques, texture, colour, scale and form the work invites the viewer on a journey of visual association and intrigue.
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. It is a translation of my own experience of being in the world, the things I see and feel, the clay that stains my hands and the process of learning and discovering meaning through making.
The work is the residue of this making process and my compositions - the result of contemplative and playful arrangements that initiate conversation between the objects and the viewers who choose to look at them.
Selected CV
Group Exhibitions
2022 - Holt Festival Ceramics & Glass Prize
2022 - Rawlinson & Hunter Exhibition
2022 - ReWild Ilford
2021 - Fresh, British Ceramics Biennial
2021 - The Ingram Prize, Unit 1 Gallery
2021 - Metanoia, Cromwell Place
2021 - Anagama, Japanese Embassy, London
2021 - Ride Your Pony, Abingdon Studio Project
2021 - The Power of Material: From Virtual to Physical, The Design Museum
2021 - RCA 2021, Royal College of Art online show
2020 - WIP RCA 2020, Royal College of Art
2019 - Peckham Craft Show
Awards
2022 - Charlotte Fraser Ceramics & Glass Prize shortlisted finalist - Holt Festival
2022 - a-n Time Space Money bursary
2021 - The Ingram Prize, shortlisted finalist
2021 - Anglo Swedish Society Exchange recipient
2020 - Grocers Bursary Scholarship
Residencies
2022 - Konstfack, Stockholm - Anglo Swedish Society
Education
2019 - 2021: MA Ceramics & Glass, Royal College of Art, London
2010 - 2013: BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London
2011: Study Abroad, Pratt Institute, New York
2009 - 2010: Foundation in Art & Design, Central Saint Martins, London
