Background
Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay.
Tessa Eastman is a British ceramic artist who has nineteen years of experience of working with clay. She lives in London and works in Studio Manifold with a group of artists and designers who founded the studio in 2010.Tessa has worked as an assistant to renowned ceramicist Kate Malone, who recently featured in The Great British Pottery Throw Down TV series. Tessa’s work has been shown by various galleries in the UK and internationally and she has taken part in exhibitions with Contemporary Applied Arts and with ceramic collector Preston Fitzgerald, the judge of the Young Masters Prize. Recent shows include ‘In Support of Eating’ at Sketch Restaurant and ‘The British Ceramics Biennial’ in the former Spode Factory in Stoke-on-Trent.
Tessa has produced a fresh body of work that grew out of her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2015. These original pieces show her ongoing commitment to the challenge of hand building in clay, using various techniques to create complex ceramic sculptures. She observes the often overlooked detail of natural microscopic structures as a starting point to developing works which possess a curious ambiguity. Undulating cloud-like forms are juxtaposed with harsh rock and mesh structures, revealing internal, expanding space. When grouped, pieces have a distinctive dialogue which generates an atmosphere of harmony and tension.
