Niusia Winczewska

My experience and vocabulary in graphic design, illustration and publishing informs my ceramic work, all of which have found their way into the medium of clay and mark making.  

I draw images from the deep well of the natural world, giving form to expressions of the creative process, the embodiment and self expression that comes together through the medium. I hand build elemental, ritual and functional objects that highlight the beauty and fragility of humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Engaged in animistic practices that explore forgotten, ancestral pathways of relating to our environment, I relate each ceramic piece with the land around me, create site-specific land art that calls attention to the dialogue between the inner and outer, the human and more-than-human, the mind and matter, and the transcendent and material worlds. 

My joy in the medium was quietly unearthed during the various lockdowns of COVID, and continues as a meditation bridging these various subjects, deliberately connecting with this earthly material in search for a sense of calm, beauty and self-expression in this age of climate crisis and species extinction.