About

Join ceramic artist Isis Dove-Edwin and multidisciplinary artist Rachel Goodison at their open studio. Learn about their processes and techniques, view finished works and works-in-progress as well as visiting the ceramic studio.

Rachel Goodison received an MFA from City & Guilds of London Art School. She is currently Artist in Residence at Brompton Chapel and Cemetery. She has a broad practice which includes printmaking, collage, painting, and textiles. Her print works explore the figurative, using abstract marks to produce an unsettling atmosphere of disquiet. She also creates three-dimensional objects — some knitted, and others using everyday materials and found objects such as sweets and pins — to encourage people to see familiar things in a fresh light. At the core of her work is the contrast between playfulness and disquiet, which to her, embody the essence of being human.

Isis Dove-Edwin received a BA in Ceramic Design at Central St Martins and is currently in her final year of an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art. She is attracted to the infinite potential of clay to hold memory, and express different ideas through materiality, process and form. Her work documents and explores historical and contemporary social themes primarily relating to the Black African diaspora, and her current body of  work places her within this ceramic lineage, thinking about the diaspora of objects, particularly coiled terracotta pots. She makes non-functional works characterised by expressive making and vivid surface decoration.

Isis and Rachel are both members of the Pollen Collective of artists: pollen-collective.co.uk