Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Contemporary Craft / Ceramics / Sculpture
My location: Manchester, United Kingdom
First Name: Róisín
Last Name: O'Connor
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Ceramics MA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Contemporary Craft / Ceramics / Sculpture
My Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
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There is a quiet integrity involved in the study of nature, like the quiet determination of being on the pottery wheel, the tool with which I make my pieces. These forms are imbued with a sense of methodical growth. I commune with my internal mycelium network, letting the fungi speak through me. I’m attempting to recreate that dopaminergic rush released when I make discoveries of enigmatic specimen from more-than-human communities: an abandoned nest, oak wasp gall, slime mould or stalagmite. To encounter the work is to feel something akin to wonder; made by a creature, force of nature, or magic. Each work is imbricated with the essence of these things and places. My ambition is to lean into instinct, letting my craft skills translate this message just like a spider or bird making a web or nest. I want to generate a sense of material phenomenon and metaphor through imaginative surface treatment.