Julia Ellen Lancaster is an artist working with clay, rock and ceramics 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 a location, its history and the community through it’s geology, using a mix of clays including excavating her own 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 of conversation of the changing world we live in. 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, including particles previously fired or rejected.
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
What Was Left - Three person show - Cliftonville Gallery, Margate, March 2024
Shadders - Group show - Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards-on-Sea, November 2024
Overshoot - Group show - Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, May 2025
Previous Exhibitions
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
Deadly Bloom, Liminal Gallery, 2023. Review - meer Art
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.
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
Artist in ResidenceRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, 2024
Artist in Residence, Powell Cotton Museum, Birchington, 2024.
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
Private collections UK, USA.