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Joy Trpkovic FSDC

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About Joy
Joy Trpkovic is a ceramic artist who specialises in hand-built porcelain. She creates delicate, translucent sculptures that are inspired by marine life, fossils, and fungi. Embracing the challenge of firing fragile structures, she meticulously forms each piece by hand, capturing the intricate movement found in nature. Her work is finished with hand-painted precious metal lustres, evoking the soft, layered effect of watercolour - a technique from her background in painting.
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Originally from Lancashire, Joy Trpkovic now creates her work from her home studio in North West London. Her career first began in Fine Art as a painter, a foundation that profoundly shapes her approach to ceramics. Joy's journey into ceramics was unplanned; she discovered it while teaching art and, with no formal training, started experimenting with earthenware, later moving on to stoneware and eventually porcelain. This self-taught path has allowed Joy to approach ceramics with a unique perspective, unhindered by traditional boundaries and open to taking creative risks.

Her work today reflects this exploratory spirit, as she pushes porcelain's limits to create delicate, translucent pieces inspired by marine life, fossils, and the fragile beauty of nature's ecosystems. Advances in porcelain clays have enabled her to develop increasingly intricate, hand-built wall pieces and freestanding sculptures, blending black and white porcelain or adding hand-painted precious metal lustres. Joy's art speaks to both her love of nature's intricacies and her commitment to challenging the possibilities of her materials.

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  • Joy Trpković FSDC is a Fine Art graduate whose work has been widely exhibited since 1979, with solo and group shows in the UK, the U.S., across Europe and beyond, including at the British Council in New Delhi.
  • More recently, she has exhibited with Madrid's VAN GOGH Gallery in Madrid, Milan, and Monaco.
  • Her ceramic works are part of public collections at Southampton City Art Gallery, Leicester County Council, and private collections internationally.
  • Trpković is a six-time finalist at Museu de Ceràmica de l'Alcora's international ceramic competition, where her works are part of the museum's permanent collection, and she has been awarded second prize twice.
  • She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen in 2012.
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