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Carla Wright

Hastings
I am an artist living and working in East Sussex. I make ceramic sculpture, wall-based works & participatory projects that explore connection, co-operation and togetherness.

Carla Wright is an artist living and working in East Sussex, UK. She makes ceramic sculpture, wall-based works & participatory projects that explore connection, co-operation and togetherness - through an investigation into social housing, community architecture & places of gathering.

Motifs & fragments of playgrounds & community centre murals appear throughout the work. Her practice is informed by growing up around this type of architecture and responding through immediate ceramic ‘drawings’ and larger sculptural assemblages - interconnecting & grouping of objects, navigating their way around each other with a sense of playfulness, risk & care.

Carla uses clay as a connecting material - connecting her to people, to her past & to the ground, giving her a deeper knowledge of the community and of the land. The individual works evolve through ongoing research of materials; locally found clay, granite, quartz, ironstone and plants are incorporated into the glazes & clay body. 

Carla is the founder of Common Clay - a community ceramics studio that is a shared, open and experimental making space for artists working with clay, and provides clay sessions for local  groups.

 

Relaxed Vessel Series

Play Stool (orange hills)

Gossip Stools

Clay Drawings

Play Stools

Icklesham Playground

Bracknell Boys Club

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