Artist Bio
Tracey Johnston is a Northern Irish Landscape Ceramic Artist who works with nature to make vessels that seeks to connect us with our natural surroundings in the areas of discovery, survival and function. She has a strong interest in landscape and an anthropological approach to research, as she seeks to make work that reflects the Ulster coastline and our emotional need to walk its shores and swim its waters. Her work, sometimes thrown from local clay, comes from research that involves experiential walking, sketching, painting, reading and conversations. Each piece of work has a unique story of its own. She aims to make work that gives insight into the importance of the liminal space, between earth and water, in shaping our notions of place and belonging. In returning her jars to the space that inspired them, she desires to communicate life, nature, mental health and survival.
