Mitch Pilkington | White Pebble Stoneware Sculpture

£1,100.00

Originally from Kent, Mitch Pilkington now lives in North Devon and works from her studio at home, surrounded by beautiful countryside. Mitch studied Ceramic Design at Falmouth School of Art and Design during the early 1990s.

Her sculptures are hand-formed and intuitive in their construction. The rhythmic, meditative and mindful process of coiling, and the many hours of scraping and sculpting means each piece is an emotional response to the clay. This provides Mitch with a creative salve for dealing with life’s challenges and gives an underlying quality to her work which imbues each piece with a unique sense of calm, serenity and connection. 2021 saw Mitch embark upon an MA Fine Art (Ceramics) at Bath School of Art and Design. She is looking to explore new ideas and to further develop her work.

Mitch has exhibited widely throughout the UK and was featured in Emerging Potters Magazine in 2019, as well as in Ceramic Review’s ‘One To Watch’ in 2019. In the same year, she won the Rising Stars award and was selected for the Crafts Council’s Hothouse Development Scheme. Last Year, Mitch was made a Selected Member of the Craft Potters Association. She was also mentioned in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal as someone who’s work was collected by a notable collector in the contemporary art world. Mitch’s work is widely collected both here in the UK and abroad.

Mitch Pilkington

WHITE PEBBLE STONEWARE SCULPTURE

STONEWARE

H 24 cm W 26 cm D 24 cm

UNIQUE

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mitch Pilkington is a Devon-based ceramic artist whose practice combines meditative processes, natural inspiration and sculptural poise. From an early age drawn to clay, Pilkington ultimately returned to making full-time after several years away, transforming a kitchen table studio into a national presence when accepted onto the Crafts Council Hothouse programme in 2019 - that year also saw them recognised as a “Rising Star” and featured in Ceramic Review magazine as one of its “One to Watch”.

Pilkington’s beloved material is clay, both stoneware and porcelain, creating vessels and sculptural forms that drift between the familiar and the elemental. Inspired by shell-shapes found whilst beach-combing, and looking at the relationship between outer surface, tactile texture and raw material, Pilkington uses coiling, scraping, refining and firing, guiding each form through multiple stages whilst working on several pieces simultaneously to harness continuity of process.

Pilkington graduated with an MA in Fine Art (Ceramics) from Bath School of Art & Design, and continues to work from a studio in North Devon. Mitch is a member of both the Craft Potters Association and Contemporary Applied Arts and is represented by a number of galleries. Each piece is deeply personal, evolving not from pre-designed forms but through the making itself - a reflective exploration of craft, form and the grounding power of material.

Mitch Pilkington | White Pebble Stoneware Sculpture

Mitch Pilkington

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