Masterclass with Iessa Eastman

摘要

I graduated from the University of Westminster in 2006 with a BA Honours in Ceramics, and in 2015 gained an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art. I set up my first studio in 2005 in the Old Gas Works in West London, then when I achieved my MA I joined Manifold, an East London collective founded in 2010 by a group of emerging artists and designers from The Royal College of Art. In 2017,I was lucky enough to be granted space at Cockpit Arts, the UK's only business incubator for craftspeople. I share a studio with three other ceramists, which is a wonderful creative environment to be a part of. I build my forms by hand, drawing inspiration from organic shapes as seen through a microscope. I like to explore the strangeness of growth of natural phenomena in which systems flow and digress from an intended pattern, subsequently translating my findings into colourful glazed ceramics. I aim for my forms to be beautiful in a bizarre manner so as to aid the appreciation of life's absurdities, where things don't always make sense.