Laura Lee MSDC

Ceramics

About Laura
Laura Lee works from her studio in the beautiful Hall Farm Gardens, Lincolnshire. Wheel thrown ceramic vessels are informed from shapes and textures found in local forests and woodlands. She practices the process of Raku and captures through various glazing techniques, movement and energy to her ceramic artworks. Her collections are intrinsically linked to environmental issues caused by damage to the natural world through climate change.
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Laura Lee graduated in 2024 with a First-Class (BA) Hons in Fine Art & Crafts having specialised in Ceramics. She started her degree as a painter but soon found ceramics to be her true medium for expression and finds the process of wheel throwing satisfies her need for precision and perfect form. Experimenting with many various alternative firing techniques, especially Raku for its variations of outcome - it pushes the boundaries of perfection freeing her from controlled outcomes.

Working from her studio in Lincolnshire, alongside other creatives, she makes good use of their waste materials to experiment as combustibles for reduction. This has led to quite extraordinary and beautiful glazes.

Her current collection 'Burnt Forest Reborn' aims to raise awareness of damage caused by climate change.

"I have taken daily walks in my local forest over the last twenty years, seeking sanctuary through its silence and the beauty of its mature pine trees. I experienced first-hand the devastation caused through wildfires when acres were wiped out during the hot summer of 2022. My current collection ‘Burnt Forest Reborn’, is inspired by natures resilience and its ability to survive and regrow even against great odds. I aim through my artwork to raise awareness of environmental issues; this collection highlights the recent devastation of forests caused by wildfires due to climate change." Laura Lee.

Since graduating, Laura has quickly gained gallery representation across the region.

She is passionate that everyone should have access to the benefits of art for wellbeing and happiness, and actively aims to achieve this by the delivery of community group clay-based art projects which she delivers to charities and schools throughout the UK.

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Laura is currently on the Mentorship programme delivered by ceramicist Rebecca Appleby, having been awarded a bursary from the Northern Potters Association.

She has recently been selected as a finalist for the SCAF Emerging Artist Award 2025.

Gallery Representation 2025

  • Sheffield - Millennium Galleries & Museums and Cupola Contemporary Arts
  • Leeds - Craft Centre Leeds Art Gallery
  • York - The Gallery Malton
  • Newark - Gallery 6
  • Lincolnshire - Gallery 20-21
  • Doncaster - In 2023 she was awarded the commission for New Public Art with Doncaster Council which will be exhibited in Doncaster Gallery Library and Museum (DGLAM) in 2025.

2024

  • Featured Artist at D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster

2023

  • Solo Show ‘Synergy’ at D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster

2022

  • Emerging Artists Award (Finalist) The Gallery Gate, UK

Laura will be exhibiting for the first show of 2025 at Sheffield Ceramics Fair, April.

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