Rosie is a potter living and working in the UK.
She makes thrown and altered pieces that are soda or wood fired.
After completing a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, UoL, she went on to study a 2 year Diploma at Clay College, Stoke-on-Trent. Here, she developed her passion for atmospheric firings. She sees these firings as an opportunity for unpredictability and spontaneity to become part of every step of her making process.
Her work takes cues from 20th Century outsider art, Eastern European and British Folk crafts, as well as the wealth of megalithic structures found in our landscape.
Education
Clay College Diploma | 2024-26
BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, UoL | 2016-19
UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Leeds Arts University | 2015-16
Atmospheric firing
Atmospheric firings are methods of firing that transform pots into unpredictable, one-off pieces.
In the case of soda firing, sodium carbonate and bicarbonate is introduced to the kiln as it is reaching its top temperatures, which travels with the flame and settles on the pots to create flashes of colour and glass. Often, clays and glazes interact with the soda and create a variety of faces on a single piece.
Similarly, in wood firing, feeding wood into the kiln creates ash that is carried up and around the pots by the flames. It settles on them, in some cases completely melting into a natural ash glaze or semi-melting into textures on the pots surface.
Atmospheric firing can show exactly how the flame interacted with the pot in the kiln, and creates a tangible link between the pot and its making process. No two pieces are alike, each one with is it’s own unique surface.