Róisín O'Connor

Róisín O’Connor (b.1991) lives and works in the UK and over the past 10 years her practice has been focused on wheel-thrown forms. After completing a pottery skills and design training with the Design and Craft Council of Ireland in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, she enrolled with the Royal College of Art for a MA in Ceramics and Glass.

Statement

I belong in wild places, to the remote green mossy fringes of existence. My work comes from encounters with the more-than-human and I delight in foraged spectacles of nature. When physically making at the wheel, I commune with my internal mycelium network and let the fungi, lichen, flora and fauna speak through me. I’m attempting to recreate that dopaminergic rush that is released when I make discoveries of enigmatic specimen; an abandoned nest, wasp gall, slime mould, bracket fungi, stalagmite, or Neolithic stone carving. 

Each work is imbricated with the essence and magic of these things and places. My ambition is to lean into instinct, letting my craft skills translate this message just like a spider or bird making a web or nest. I want to generate a sense of material phenomenon and metaphor through imaginative surface treatment.