ABOUT 

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Harriet Hellman is a process-led ceramic artist whose work emerges from direct engagement with the environment and landscape. She completed an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art in 2020 and has since exhibited internationally and undertaken residencies in Denmark, the UK, Ireland, Japan, and the Arctic. In 2025, she won the Peter and Pat Jeffries award at the London Sculpture Prize.

 

Her practice traces cycles of change and transformation within the natural world, exploring the meeting point between human time and the deep time. Working with unfired clay in coastal locations and responding in an immediate way; she layers, tears, and embeds the material into the landscape, allowing the textures of place to leave their imprint. Her gestures are both performative and meditative - acts of surrender to the elements. Clay is immersed, reclaimed, or carried away by the tide, recording fleeting moments of contact between artist and environment.

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These encounters reveal an ongoing dialogue with impermanence and renewal. Fired remnants bear the marks of erosion, movement, and resilience, quiet testaments to nature’s power to shape and transform.

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