Freddie Crossley
Ceramics & Glass MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Ceramics / Fine Art / Contemporary Craft
My location: London, United Kingdom
Freddie Crossley
First Name: Freddie
Last Name: Crossley
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Ceramics & Glass MA
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Ceramics / Fine Art / Contemporary Craft
My Location: London, United Kingdom
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About
Freddie Crossley (b.1993)is a London-based artist, cook and writer working across forms in confluences of clay, text, performance and food. His work is an invitation. "Through the stuff at the beginning, the stuff that sustains us and the last remnants, - the things we live with and the things we will never see again - vital, intimate, raw and lyrical, I am making work for you, with my body for yours."
Freddie received the prestigious Märit Rausing Scholarship in Ceramics and Glass in 2024 to undertake an MA at the Royal College of Art, London (2024-25). During this he won the Anglo-Swedish Society’s Scholarship to study at Konstfack, Stockholm in 2026. He took a BA in Literature at the University of Cambridge (2011-14) and studied at the Curious School of Puppetry (2016). He was Artist in Residence at Clare College, Cambridge in 2017, after winning the Duncan Robinson Art Prize in 2011 and 2014. He has toured performance work internationally and exhibited ceramic work across the UK including at CASS Sculpture Foundation, Hepworth Wakefield, Saatchi Gallery and Newlyn Gallery.
Duet is a bar of soap and a dish to hold it, both made with ash left in the wake of wildfires in Evia, Greece in the height of summer, 2024. I washed the ash, skimmed off the caustic lye that bubbles out at first and, ordinarily discarded, used it to make this bar of soap. With the dried remnants I make a glaze. It pools in the finger marks of a momentary act. Performed with the ease of a jazz musician, I am implicated permanently though the intense heat of the kiln. Yet unused, a rectangle of soap, willing us to remain in the present, smells only of its composite materials. Its cut edges are an invitation: wash, smooth its corners between your palms and leave the traces of your hand in mine.
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