Julia Ellen Lancaster
Julia Ellen Lancaster is an artist working with clay, glass, rock, ceramics and glaze across the UK. Her work draws on the specifics of a place or space, driven by a response to emotional intuition, and externalising the impression that a time, or the feeling a space and its contents, provoke. Lancaster explores locations, history and the community through materials, using a mix of clays including reclaimed and excavated wild clays, rocks and collected materials and changing their structure and make-up with extreme heat. The sculptures produced build a language of materials, acting as punctuations or conversations of the changing world we live in and an imagined future. Lancaster’s work is highly charged with investigating the relationships between the landscape and the human body, as connected and interchangeable. Her work employs a circular practice involving no waste, re-using elements, particles previously fired or rejected, recycled into new work.
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
The Whole World In Our Hands - Group show - Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London, April 2025
Ground Works - Group show - County Hall Pottery, London, May 2025
Previous Exhibitions
2025
If Heaven Falls - Group show - The Lido Store Gallery, Margate February 2025
Shadders - Group show - Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea, January 2025
2024
Mosaic Art - Group show - Corner7Camden & London School of Mosaic, November 2024
Liminal Salon II - Liminal Gallery, Margate, November 2024
Past, Present, Future - Bankside Gallery, London, October 2024
Falling Angel - Solo show, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, June 2024
What Was Left, Thing Power - Three person show - Cliftonville Gallery, Margate, March 2024
2023
Liminal Salon - Liminal Gallery, November 2023
Deadly Bloom - Solo show - Liminal Gallery, Margate, October 2023
Small and Mighty Club - Ladies Drawing Club, Paris, June 2023
The Weight of Being - SVA John St Gallery, Stroud, May 2023
Rooted - Solo show, Poplar Union Arts Centre, London, April - May 2023
2022
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Solo show, m2 Gallery & Pavillion, London, Oct - Nov 2022
Vessels of Meaning - Jupitor Gallery, Newlyn, Sept 2022
Turner Contemporary Open X CRP - Turner Contemporary, Margate, Jan - Feb 2022
2021
Resettling - Newlyn Art Gallery, December 2021.
Resettling - Solo show, Anchor Studio, Newlyn, 2021
Whilst We Weren’t Listening - Solo show, Urban Room, Folkestone, 2021
2020
Lost & Found - Solo show, Poplar Union Arts Centre, London, 2020 - 21
Work in Progress - Group show, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, 2020
2019
Candid Arts - Group show, London, 2019
2018
Micro Museum - Solo show, Youkobo Arts Centre, Tokyo, 2018
Articles & Reviews
Bold Journey Magazine, Featured Artist, Interview, 2024 - Bold Journey
Glost Glaze, Material Research Journal Series interview, 2024 - In conversation
Deadly Bloom, Liminal Gallery, 2023. Review - meer Art
Liminal Gallery Podcast interview - Episode 18 Liminal Gallery Podcast
Ceramics Now, Featured Artist, 2023 - Ceramics Now
Lost & Found, Poplar Union Arts Centre, 2021. Review - Rose Thompson, Royal Academy Arts
Leach Pottery Centenary Artist in Residence Blog, 2021 - Blue Veins & Blue Skies
Leach Pottery Centenary Artist in Residence Blog, 2020 - Blueprint for a Museum
Community Engagement
Glasshouse - Powell Cotton Museum, Birchington, 2022/25
The Listening Project - Folkestone Fringe, Folkestone, 2021
Trophy - Community Links, Canning Town, London, 2021
Ceramics & Wellbeing - Pritchards Rd Day Centre, Bethnal Green, London, 2020
1-2-1 Clayworks London Studio - Newham, London, 2018/19
Residencies/Awards
London School of Mosaic Residency, London, 2025
Rochester Square Residency, London, 2025
Artist in Residence, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT University, Australia, 2024
Artist in Residence, Powell Cotton Museum, Birchington, 2024/25
Leach 100 Residency Artist, Newlyn, Cornwall, 2021.
Leach 100 Residency Artist, St Ives, Cornwall, 2020.
Youkobo Art Centre Residency, Tokyo, 2018.
Youkobo Art Centre Residency, Tokyo, 2017.
Troy Town Art Pottery Residency - Open School East, 2014.
Commissions
Powell Cotton Museum, Quex House, Birchington, Kent. 2022
Collections
Fine Art Collection, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
Private collections UK, JAPAN & AUSTRALIA.