Urban and industrial remnants costantly recur in the work. Their incorporation becomes a tool to investigate on their ambiguous status and circulation.
At the core of her practice lies an interest in daily repeated gestures and in process as a form of knowledge. This extends beyond objects into the design of shared workspaces. They are intendend as environments that support exchange and collaboration.
Ceramics made of regional sludge, 2021, The Netherlands.
Sea Silt is a material research and ceramic product developed with the Dutch design Studio Humade. The designers, renown for their kintsugi repair kit, extended their environmental research on local clay bodies. In particular, Sea Silt applies to make ceramics a sludge originating from Groningen, otherwise applied to build dikes. Containing salt and shrinking like porcelain, the material represented a challenging quest. After two years of development, their collection of tiles is now tested for production at Tikelaar Makkum (NL).
Selected by Humade and the Stimuleringsfonds “Building Talent” commission, the assignment consisted of assisting Gieke and Lotte for developing their publication, the new tiles and vases, as well as helping with the digital and material production for their solo show at the Princessehod National Ceramic Museum in Leeuwarden (2022).