Ceramic Artists 

YYY

YYY is the brand behind the artist’s functional practice.  Ever changing, YYY’s current work plays with coloured porcelain, pieces wheel thrown and hand built with nerikomi pattern. Each piece is unique and varies from the next. YYY focuses on clean organic forms with a strong focus on color. 

Amanda Eve

I love the idea of functional art. Something that serves a purpose while still being beautiful. In the beginning of 2023, I started working on themed tic-tac-toe boards. After seeing a plain ceramic board, I thought about how I could "reinvent" the game and make it a fun and functional piece of art. I want my art to be something that you can have on your coffee table to play with while catching up with friends. Something that sparks conversation about what art is and can be. There are endless themes and ideas that I have for these boards as well as other board games. I even recently started creating magnets as well. I hope my work can be a reminder that art can be functional too, it doesn't have to be something that is protected behind glass in a museum. It can be fun and playful, and a beautiful conversation starter. 

https://www.amandaeveart.com

Annie Duncan

Annie Duncan (b. 1997, San Francisco, California) makes paintings and ceramic sculptures that explore femininity, symbolism, and art historical references. Leaning into her affinity for collecting, sorting, and obsessing over objects, her work finds humor, heartbreak, joy, and meaning in the jumbled world we inhabit. She received a BA from Vassar College in 2019 and an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2023.

https://www.anniegduncan.com/statement-2-test

Claire Lindner

Vine-like colorful coils of material overlap in Claire Lindner’s latest sculpture collection, which blurs the line between organic and human-made forms. Each piece has a vibrancy and motion designed to push the possibilities of the medium. “My ideas are guided by the evocation of the living,” she tells Colossal. “I try through movement and color to combine images of vegetation, the animal or the mineral world, the body as if everything was made of the same substance.”

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/02/claire-lindner-sculptures/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/udG0F0bRZPU

Lorien Stern

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/lorien-stern-ceramics/

Rose B. Simpson

Rose B. Simpson (born, lives, and works in Santa Clara Pueblo, NM) is a mixed-media artist whose work explores the impact, both emotional and existential, of living in the postmodern and postcolonial world. Growing up in a multigenerational, matrilineal lineage of artists working with clay, her practice is informed by indigenous tradition.

https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s11/rose-b-simpson-in-everyday-icons/

https://jackshainman.com/artists/rose-b-simpson

Big Ideas: Race, History, Community

Brett Kern

“Something has survived,” reads the tagline for the 1997 movie, Jurassic Park: The Lost World. Undeniably, something has survived: the infatuation I have with the pop culture of my formative years, during the late eighties and the nineties. As I age, it continues to be through these “cultural glasses” that I continue to view and interpret the world, which influences the subject matter and purpose of my work. My predilection for producing collectible objects comes from my training as a potter and my persistent preoccupation with collecting toys, pop memorabilia, and nostalgic items from my youth. 

https://brettkernart.store/pages/artist-statement

Big Ideas: Nostalgia, Pop Culture, Identity

Alma Berrow

https://www.almaberrow.com/

Alma Berrow

https://www.thelostandfond.com/about

Genesis Belanger 

Genesis Belanger’s work is characterized by the treatment of objects as surrogates for the body. Everyday objects, sculpted in stoneware and tinted in fondant hues, often take on human features, made uncomfortably familiar as they begin to resemble us. Working with a wide range of material such as clay, metal, and upholstery, Belanger often creates immersive installations that depict liminal spaces, such as a reception area, hotel lobby, or funeral parlor. Her signature motifs, such as manicured female hands, misplaced limbs, half eaten foods, and cigarettes inhabit these spaces, toeing the line between comfort and disquiet, the beautiful and the strange. The artist's psychologically charged scenes ultimately point to society’s progressive, yet stagnant, movement in gender stereotypes and equality as well as critique mass consumerism. 

Stephanie Kilgast

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/stephanie-kilgast-nature-trash-sculptures-utopia-book/

https://www.stephaniekilgast.com/discarded-objects

Charlotte Mary Pack

Julie Green 

The Last Supper illustrates the meal requests of U.S. death row inmates. Prisons, books and newspapers provide meal requests from 36 states. Plates are installed in alphabetical order by state, in chronological order within state. Date, state and final meal request are posted, but not the inmate’s name. Cobalt blue mineral paint is applied to second-hand ceramic plates and kiln-fired to 1400 degrees by Toni Acock and Sandy Houtman. There are now 950 painted plates. I add fifty plates a year and plan to end the series when we abolish capital punishment, or at 1000 plates, which ever happens first.

Sophie Woodrow

Her work has been informed by an interest in the Victorians as the first generation who chose to define nature in opposition to what is human. In a spirit of wild curiosity, tinged with fear, the Victorians idolised nature, ‘packaging’ it into highly romanticised, palatable works of art. Our modern-day understanding is very different, so that we now interpret much Victorian art as ‘unnatural’ or kitsch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEpsx7vD7XU 

Ahrong Kim

Humans are emotional creatures. Individuals feel a diverse range of emotions even during a short time or on a small occasion. Emotions are formed naturally through many experiences of individuals and there are an innumerable number of ways to express emotions. Of these, the artist’s task is to conduct analysis of these experiences from the perspective of emotion and to sensitively materialize them.