I am a ceramic artist, currently residing in Köln, Germany.
Born in Brazil and raised in Aotearoa.
I make both functional wares and ceramic sculptures. I have mainly focused on hand-building, although I do also occasionally throw. I have also been teaching hand-building to both adults and children since 2020.
Being an immigrant as both a child and as an adult has influenced my work, which is based around food as a form of nostalgia, noticing cultural differences and missing creature comforts.
Right now, I am really enjoying creating shapes and textures with slips, discovering different ways to decorate with underglaze, and trying to decipher recipes on glazy.org.
Qualifications
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, University of Auckland
Exhibitions
2021 Salad Days Are Gone, Candy Coated Exhibition, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
2021 Salad Days Are Gone, Dairy Corner Exhibition, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui.
2018 It’s a Monday, It’s So Mundane, Foreign Voices Exhibition, Almazen, Seville.
2017 Salad Days Are Gone, Uxbridge Gallery, Auckland.
Projects
2018 – 2019 The Prolific Sprout Collective, Studio Coordinator
Media
elisabarczak.com 