Elizabeth Jackson lives and works in London. In 2013 she graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins and in 2021 with an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art. She has taken part in residencies and exhibitions internationally and in the UK, including the Ingram Prize and British Ceramics Biennial. She co-curated and exhibited in Undergrowth at County Hall Pottery.
Using visceral language as a catalyst for intuitive making, I create sculptural ceramic compositions comprised of cast objects and handbuilt gestures. Playing with techniques, texture, colour, scale and form the work invites the viewer on a journey of visual association and intrigue which oscillate between the everyday and the abstract, the familiar and the otherworldly, the rapidly formed and the pored over.
Grounded in care, contemplation & playfulness my practice draws on the human and non human world exploring their overlap and interconnectedness. Taking language used to describe these conditions, as generative tools. A perceived translation of plant life into clay, serving as metaphor for the human condition and situated in wider ecologies of being.
At the heart of my process is a concern with embodied modes of knowledge production and the transformation of material into something, rooted in knowledge that can’t quite be explained verbally, but is activated within us and within the material. 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.
