Ways of Seeing, Learning and Making: Clay
Join us for a talk centred around clay as part of CONTEMPORARY X ART HISTORIES, a collaborative strand of programming between the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Contemporary.
Ceramic sculptor Irina Razumovskaya (Royal College of Art) reflects on her work with clay as both an artist and an educator, in conversation with art historian Lara Pucci (University of Nottingham). The conversation will explore the physical properties of clay and its capacity to unite makers, asking what it means to work with a material that is both rooted in place and transcends cultures.
Irina Razumovskaya is a London-based artist whose work explores themes of female identity, cultural memory, and diaspora. Rooted in material and form, her hand-built ceramic sculptures weave historical references into pieces that embody resilience and reimagine decay as a space of beauty and transformation. Irina studied at the Saint Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design (BA, MFA) and the Royal College of Art in London (MA), where she now works as an Associate Lecturer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including solo presentations at Cromwell Place in London and Officine Saffi in Milan. Her sculptures have also been included in group exhibitions such as FLUX at Sotheby’s Stockholm, New Sculptural Presence at Nilufar Gallery during Milan Design Week, and Argylos at Carson Gallery in Athens. She has been recognised in international competitions including the Loewe Craft Prize, the Mino Ceramic Competition, and the Faenza Prize, and is a recipient of several awards including First Prize at the Westerwald Museum in Germany. Her works are held in public collections including Chatsworth House (UK), the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art (Japan), the Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), the Icheon World Ceramic Center (Korea), and the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon (France).
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