Maria Roy

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I am a Catalan artist and designer with a research-focused ceramics practice. Using a combination of traditional and experimental craft techniques, I study the earth beneath our feet.

The land is a living material that narrates the history, politics, and ecology of its locality and my work seeks to uncover these subterranean stories through site-specific investigations, ceramic sculptures, tool making and kilns that intertwine themselves with the geographies they are birthed from.

mariaroyd@gmail.com

(+34)681917236


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I am a Catalan artist and designer with a research-focused ceramics practice. Using a combination of traditional and experimental craft techniques, I study the earth beneath our feet.

The land is a living material that narrates the history, politics, and ecology of its locality and my work seeks to uncover these subterranean stories through site-specific investigations, ceramic sculptures, tool making and kilns that intertwine themselves with the geographies they are birthed from.


Education

2018—2020, MA, Central Saint Martins, Material Futures, London

2011—2016, BA, Escola Massana, Arts and Design, Barcelona


Exhibitions

Terra & Ether, Manifesto Barcelona. Barcelona, Jul 2024 Dec 2019

Auguri, Sala d’Art Jove. Art Nou, Barcelona, Jul 2024

The Living Archive exhibition, Future Materials, Jan Van Eyck Academie. DutchDesignWeek, Eindhoven, Oct 2023

Raw Senses. OKRO Gallery, Zurich design weeks. Zurich, Sep 2022

The London Open 2022. Whitechapel Gallery, London.

London Design Biennale: Design in an Age of Crisis. Somerset House, London. June 2021

United Matters, Dutch Design Week, Netherlands, October 2020

WIP, Central St Martins, London. Jan 2020

The Search for (modern) pleasure, MIRA Digital Arts Festival, October 2017

The Best Design of the Year, Disseny HUB, Barcelona, June 2017

W.I.P, Understanding Design, Galeria DADA, Barcelona, May 2017, (Link here)

11:15-32, Disseny HUB, Barcelona, December 2016, (Link here)

The Best Design of the Year, Disseny HUB, Barcelona, June 2013


Workshops

  • 'Reclaimed', Hoaf Projects workshop at Beckenham Place Park. London, July 2022

    Future Material Encounters, Soil. Jan Van Eyck Academy. The Netherlands, Sep 2022

    'Living Sculptures', Online workshop for Narratives of Soil. January 2022

    'Primitive ceramics with urban resources', Casal d'Estiu at TMDC, Barcelona. September 2021

    ‘showMessage(I love you)’, speculative workshop. Chelsea College of Arts, London. July 2021

    Forest Earth Vases, La Setmana del Bosc, Sant Celoni, October 2020

    BreadClay, PaFest, La Escocesa, Ancient and experimental practices with Clay Bread and Community, Barcelona, Dec 2019

    Brugga, Hello Wood Festival, Hungary, July 2019