Avis Dou
Ceramics & Glass MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Glass
My location: London, United Kingdom
Avis Dou
First Name: Avis
Last Name: Dou
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Ceramics & Glass MA
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Glass
My Location: London, United Kingdom
About
Avis uses kilnformed glass as a painterly medium, embracing its versatility and unpredictability. Through layering, reusing fragments, and adding materials like metal and decals, she explores narrative and emotion. Her practice reflects on memory, transforming fragility and pain into strength, humor, and visual intimacy.
Bad Blood questions family identity and blood ties. In China, home and family are often blurred, but for me this home means horror and hidden pain. Using pâte de verre, I create thin, fragile glass sheets—fuzzy, hole-filled, like my memories. By varying temperatures, grains, and adding materials, I evoke impressions of softness, burning, or stitched scars. Needles and threads pierce holes, violent yet binding, representing blood ties. Ceramic pigments form blurred patterns of the five poisons: toad, centipede, scorpion, gecko, snake — symbols of toxic, alienated kinship. I reveal trauma with playful, sarcastic resistance.