Daria Coleridge

I am a ceramic sculptor and glass designer.

My practice has evolved from my career as an interior designer with architects working on 5 star hotels and private offices.  Followed by a sculpture diploma that developed into commissions in Portrait sculpture and solo shows.

The identity of my work reflects my cultural background, Italian, American and British.

I apply my understanding of kinology, the philosophy of movement, to interpret kinetic phenomena across scientific, asesthetic and social fields.  My practice stems from an interest in harnessing aspects of nature's beauty with social interaction in an evolving world in time, space and water.

I feel I have an expressive spirit to create intriguing structures that entice you to want to look deeper at  the form and understand what is going on in the round…

A light airy structure of intertwining shapes that create a voluminous open form, that has the sensation of motion and one can see through, to enable fluid reflection and layered shadowing, to perceive the unexpected.

The essence of my work is to highlight the relationship between individuals, where every person is unique in themselves for all sorts of reasons. I want to celebrate their differences and capture movement in an evolving world that does not stand still, like a dance, an active conversation.

My constructional approach defies the sense of gravity of ceramics and enhances reflection of fluid glass, to spotlight the handmade quality that gives tension to each piece.

Experimentation of unifying glass and ceramics, to capture the abstract quality of blown glass flowing through ceramics like, flowing water and to control the blown glass phenomena into a fluid sense of movement in a natural way like wind and water.

The freedom of rotating pieces of work, to be seen from different angles and playing with reflection and shadowing, has been a way to highlight the effects of living through unprecedented times of the last bizarre year!

The future… is exciting… as new horizons open to work in collaboration with galleries and competitions, to develop work for the landscape and scaled up installations.