About
Elizabeth Degenszejn graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2022 and since then has won many prizes and commissions including a commission from the Critics’ Circle for the Visual Arts and architecture award. Her ceramic sculpture is slip cast and hand built parian clay sometimes with fine silver and ceramic transfers.
2020 – 2022 Royal College of Art, London Ceramics & Glass MA
2017 – 2019 City Lit, London Ceramics Diploma
2016 – 2017 City Lit, London
2014 – 2016 City Lit, London
with ceramicists Annie Turner and Dan Kelly.
2006 – 2013 Greenwich House Pottery, New York
Short Courses with Peter Lane and other teachers
1980 – 1984 PUC, Brazil Bachelors in economics
COMMISSIONS
2022 Critics’ Circle commission for Visual Arts and Architecture Award
2021 Commissioned by Critics Circle to create a sculpture to award Iwona Blazwick for her 20 years’ as the Director of the
Whitechapel Gallery.
OTHER
2024 Short listed for Taiwan Ceramics Biennale International Competition 2024 (decision by May 31 2024)
2023 Winner of Royal Scottish Academy’s Ottillie Helen Wallace Prize 2023 RSA’s Annual Exhibition
Selected as one of Ceramics Monthly’s 2023 Emerging Artists, with 20 other artists, out of 760 submissions.
2022 Ceramics Review Nov/Dec Issue – ‘Future heirlooms’ held at the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour.
2021 Selected to participate in ‘Pipa Prize’, Brazil
2019 British Ceramics Biennial
Shortlisted Fresh, Stoke-on-Trent
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Petronilla Silver, at 8 Holland Street, London
Perspective
2022 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition
Future Icons OXO Tower Wharf, London @londoncraftweek.
2022 Formed with Future Heritage Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, London Curator: Corinne Julius
Ceramics & Glass MA, Graduation Show Royal College of Art, London
‘Absent Traces’, Barge House, OXO Tower Wharf, London @londoncraftweek. Exhibition organized by @rca_cssa the Red Plate Society at Royal College of Art and invited by The Future of Craft.
Work in progress from The Royal College of Art Ceramics & Glass MA Curator: Preston Fitzgerald, London
2020 Exhibiting with Cluster\’s online shop
Bevere Gallery, Worcester
13th Annual Graduate Show
2019 Joseph Wales Studios, Margate
British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-On-Trent
Shortlisted to exhibit at Fresh Menier Gallery, London
City Lit Ceramic Diploma Graduation Show
New Designers – Business Design Centre, London
Image:
Elizabeth Degenszejn
Sculpture 18 Restrained 2023
Parian clay
12 x 12 x 6.5 cm
