EMMA SAFFY WILSON

Cornwall based artist Emma saffy Wilson has delivered arts projects in galleries, museums and community based settings, whilst also continuing her own studio practice. Graduating from Falmouth University in 2000, During her Studio Ceramics Degree, students were taken to source and dig their own clay, Emma found the immediacy of this fascinating & soon began to only work with material dug herself which then lead to working just with soil, regardless of clay content.  

Emma is inspired by these natural mediums and materials and their fragility and often disregarded nature. a playful and inquisitive nature combines the raw earthy material, dirt, mud and clay, evolving the material into something collectable and beautiful.

Making references to the playful childhood attraction to dirt in works and taking an alternative, often humorous, view of the negative connotations in western languag regarding dirt, earth and soil. The ‘dirt’ I collect from various sites can often feel ‘charged’ and I am drawn to create works being lead by this. A regular meditative practice of mine is making Hikaru Dorodangos (shiny mud balls) out of different earth I’ve gathered.   

Emma produces fascinating textural works using both throwing and hand forming techniques.