OFF THE WALL started in November 2008 with people contributing work that fit the top of the wall partition in the RCA Ceramics & Glass studios. This year the exhibition also includes artists working in textiles, metalwork and jewellery, and moves to The Gallery Space in Bloomsbury.

Artists
Anna Anderson “Solid”
Anna is a ‘Rhino’ geek, and her work is inspired by the possibilities of this 3D modeling software. Anna is interested in new perspectives that are opened up by this technology and seeks to translate these virtual experiences into real solid objects.

Anthony Harris “Untitled”
Anthony Harris has worked with glass for the past 15yrs and developed an in-depth knowledge of the material. His work interprets traditional forms in an unfamiliar material, casting decorative and figurative glass objects for the interior.

Bethan Lloyd Worthington “Argos Sovreign”
Bethan works with ceramics and drawing. Stories are important to her. Previous work includes precious tableware, non-precious jewellery, illustration and an interactive mural.

Brigit Connolly “Help”
Brigit studied modern languages and literature at UCL, working as a translator and teacher before retraining in Ceramics. Her work is influenced by a background in linguistics and explores the process of translation within artistic practice.

Caren Hartley “‘Lenox’ porcelain swan, some damage”
Caren is an applied artist who is fascinated by the lives of familiar objects, especially those that are seemingly unremarkable or have fallen from favour. She select objects at a turning point in their lives and, through the subversion of their identity, she changes their potential.

Charlotte Sale “Cross Polination”
Charlotte is a glass designer and maker of beautiful, glistening focal points that can adorn any interior.

Dionea Rocha Watt “Untitled”
Dionea hails from Brazil and trained as a jeweller. Her work concerns themes of memory, transcience, and time. Dionea produces contemplative objects connected to images and the imagined.

Edmond Byrne “Untitled”
Edmond is an applied artist who specializes in glass. He uses laser cutting technology to explore the borders between decoration and form which is an underlying theme in his work.

Ella Robinson “Untitled”
Ella is a Textile Designer who likes to combine unusual textile media (such as plastics and wood) alongside the more traditional materials and techniques associated with textiles. Her work is inspired by everyday imagery and manifests itself in simple lines and vibrant colour.

Ellie Doney “Untitled”
Ellie was born in North London and her work spans mixed media sculpture and ceramics.

Emma Shercliff “A Few Wasted Hours”
Emma has developed her practice using the traditional textile handcrafts of stitching and sewing, and combining this with the challenging particularity of collective projects.

Fiona J Sperryn “Pygmy Shrew Sorex Minutus”
Fiona is a weaver who loves drawing on a variety of scales. Her practice translates the Natural History Museum’s creatures into cloth through the medium of drawing.

Frances Federer “Afternoon in the Park”
Frances has worked as a gilder for most of her professional life. She has been researching the marriage of glass, gold and the image, using techniques that are steeped in history, but with a contemporary approach.

Hitomi Hosono “Hitty in London”
Hitty combines Japanese ‘Manga’ drawing and ceramics. Her work describes inner worlds and imagined characters who find a foothold on the outside in decorative and domestic ceramics.

Jonathan Boyd “Meaning becomes as dependent on Vice”
Jonathan is a jeweller and maker. He is interested in the complex relationship between language, object and the person. He is scottish and 6ft 4.

Katie Gaudion “Untitled”
Katie is currently studying an MPhil in Textiles at The Royal College of Art. Through the appropriation and collage of existing materials, exploiting both their sensual and responsive qualities, Katie’s textile experiments come alive through touch and motion.

Lucy Peacock “Ear Glass”
Lucy is a jewellery designer who finds contained landscapes in the human body. Using computer aided design, Lucy scans parts of her body and creates ‘bodyscapes’ on a small scale.

Liam Reeves “Swan Song”
Liam is a visual artist and Master glassmaker, currently working at the Royal College of Art. Liam is interested in the sculptural and conceptual possibilities of studio glassmaking. His practise is informed by an industrial training and results in work that deals with the boundary between the man and the machine made.

Luke Godfrey “Mini Dog Leg”
Luke is an artist whose work is informed by the urban environment of London and the monumentality of old and new architecture. Luke’s sculptures combine construction and organic movement, emulating the growing and changing nature of the city.

Marie Torbensdatter Hermann “After all this time You are still There”
Marie is a ceramicist who is interested in our relationship with everyday objects. Her practice often involves interactive installations.

Matthew Raw “Making the Written Word as Beautiful as the Spoken”
Matthew is interested in the way text is used in art. This work is inspired by the chunky, vibrant Islamic tiles he discovered on a trip to mosques in Istanbul.

Mylene Garreau “Untitled”

Purnima Patel “One Night Stand!!!”
Purnima’s work finds mislaid objects or parts of objects, and imagines a new whole or home. Her piece in this exhibition is made from fragments of glass that are usually discarded and forgotten.

Rebecca Lucraft “Chowpatty Chirp”
Rebecca is a mixed media Textile Designer. Characters and tales from trips inspire her narrative scene setting work. This exhibited piece is from a day at a Bollywood film set in Mumbai. Rebecca uses unconventional textile materials and techniques such as dye-sublimation on laser cut wood.

Seainin Passi “Untitled”
Colour is important in Seainin’s work. She aims to reclaim colour from our visually polluted landscape and to embody it in real experience.

Shan Valla “Untitled”
Whether working with ceramic or glass Shan explores her playful and fresh visual language through her work. She aims to combine, form with quirky function often applying personal interventions to familiar objects.

Signe Schjøeth “Untitled”
Signe makes objects to heighten curiosity and challenge the way we take our perception of things for granted. Her work is often site specific, using objects to rupture the normal flow of events

Sun Ae Kim “Royal College of Art, New York”
Sun Ae’s practice reinterprets ceramics with other materials. The inspiration for her work comes from social issues depicted in TV soap operas.

Suzi Tibbetts “Golden Delicious”
Suzi is an applied artist with a background in film and television. Using a variety of media and a diverse range of form, Suzi’s practice involves creating object interventions, audio related works and spatial installations.

Tanja Maria Kuijper Anreasen “Crowded”
Tanja is conceptual artist working in ceramics. She is interested in the borders between abstract and figurative work. Her work challenges the viewer to use their senses to find out more about how they look at objects, what they do or don’t recognize.

Tanya Gomez “Breaking Waves”
Tanya has primarily thrown functional and decorative work. Exhibiting her work in Galleries nation wide and selling at many high profile Craft Fairs. Tanya seeks her main inspiration from the vast open oceans that surround us. Here she ventures out into a sculpture of ‘Breaking Waves’.

Therese Morch Jorgensen “Untitled”
The ‘nomadic life’ and the individual’s sense of self inspires her work and is a peculiar contrast to Copenhagen where she trained and relocated from in 2005.

Tiffany Ong “Untitled”
Tiffany is inspired by traditional crafts and nature. She uses all forms of needlework, particularly knitting, to explore new and surprising forms.

Willem van Landeghem “Life at the Royal College of Art is sooo boring …”
Willem is a product designer with an affinity for ceramics. In his practice he uses unconventional ways to create and construct shape and volume. Moulding techniques and mathematical regularities are therefor important.