“Beyond a Vessel” Brigitta Spinocchia Freund

Alma Berrow’s nostalgic and sometimes uncanny artistic vocabulary is inextricably linked to her personal memory, as she draws inspiration from intimate day-to-day experiences from her formative years. Re-investigating the genre of still life through the transformation of ordinary objects into art pieces, Berrow explores the portrayal of contemporary taboos and zeitgeist with art pieces that are both humorous and otherworldly beautiful.

Dominic Watson explores what he sees as a false sense of shared consciousness. Typically working with film and installation to reflect upon the definers of taste in visual, popular and everyday culture, Watson creates absurd and unusual situations between his cultural influences. Frequently even appearing like a caricature of himself in his own works.

Ioana Maria Sisea’s works revolve around the concept of desire, with sculptural scenes portraying the physical expression of hedonism which she receives from the media and translates into three-dimensional art. Sisea's ceramic figures are both meaningful but also full of humour, illustrating the most noticeable situations exacerbated by a “money buys anything” society. The absence of moral judgment enables us to look at them as they are and decide for ourselves what they can say about desire and the society which produces these extreme examples.

Born in Marseille, Laetitia Scialla has developed an artistic language shaped by her international experiences in Italy, Bosnia, Greece, North Macedonia and Turkey. Specialising in porcelain, wheel-throwing and traditional firing methods such as raku and open-air firing, Scialla draws inspiration from nature whilst exporting textures and movement to evoke the vitality of plant and animal life.

Laura Ford’s sculptures bring fantasy to life with a mix of tenderness and humour alongside bittersweet and menacing qualities. Through acute observation of the human condition, Ford’s work engages with social and political themes, often rooted in childhood memories and enriched by references to classical motifs. This narrative quality is further shaped by her use of diverse materials, including bronze, fabric and ceramic.

A multidisciplinary artist based in the United Kingdom, Maayan Sophia Weisstub challenges the banal with sensitivity and audacity as well as a unique vulnerability. Her work questions the feelings and ideas behind the often mundane human experience.

Mercedes Lucy is an artist whose practice centres on ceramics; drawing inspiration from the medium’s physicality, versatility and grounding connection to both art and craftsmanship.  Working across sculpture, handmade tiles, drawing and murals, she explores form in both two and three dimensions. Mercedes’s work is rooted in close observation of her surroundings and a deep connection to the natural world, with themes of domesticity, feminism, motherhood, grief and identity running throughout her pieces, often expressed with playful, tongue-in-cheek humour.

Creating tension between control and chance, Oriel Zinnaburg’s work gives no clear answer and leaves the viewer feeling distended by its beautiful mystery. Abstract sculptural pieces explore the relationship between what is logically and mathematically constructed and the fluidity of emotion, inspired by landscape and geology, seeking a response to the traditional vessel form based on the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi.

Philippine d’Otreppe is a Belgian artist based in Brussels whose practice moves between drawing, figurative painting and ceramics. Shaped by a keen sense of observation and a quiet humour, d’Otreppe often begins with small, passing sketches that capture scenes from daily life or places she visits, gradually evolving into more complex works that shift fluidly across mediums. Through her thoughtful yet playful perspective, she invites us to slow down and notice the richness of our surroundings; how even the smallest details can carry meaning, emotion and beauty.