Serena Maria Dicks is a ceramic artist based in London. Inspired by artefacts and landscapes of archaeological and material heritage, her works echo the coalescence of gesture, time and trace of the maker’s mark.

Within her practice, she disrupts traditional hand-building techniques through gestural manipulation; recording her trace within the clay. Her works serve as a site of connection between past and present worlds, revealing how clay can embody and evoke the vernacular of place and time. Serena continues to develop her practice, adapting clay bodies to explore unearthing and emergence within her work’s surfaces. 

Serena Maria Dicks is a graduate of the Royal College of Art (2024), supported by the Märit Rausing Scholarship in Ceramics and Glass. Prior to this, she completed her BA (Hons)in Ceramics at University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Education

2023-2024 Royal College of Art - MA Ceramics and Glass

2015-2018 University For The Creative Arts - BA(Hons)Ceramics

Awards

2023-2024 Märit Rausing Scholarship in Ceramics and Glass

Residencies

2024 Anagram Wood Firing Residency - Oxford University Kilns

2021 PEATS Grampus Heritage Programme - Cyprus College of Art

2020 Postgraduate Certification Residency - Cyprus College of Art

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 ‘The Dance of Shadow and Light on Stone’ - The Graduate Gallery, London

2024 ‘Mumurations’ - Preston Fitzgerald Arts Advisory, London

2024 RCA MA Ceramics and Glass Showcase - Royal College of Art, London

2022 Winter Exhibition - Thrown Contemporary, London

2021 ‘Luminous Bodies’ - Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, Cyprus

2021 ‘Seeking Roots’- NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus

2019 ISCAEE - Dankook University, South Korea

2019 Cluster Crafts - Ugly Duck, London

2018 UCA graduate exhibition - University for the Creative Arts

2017 ISCAEE - University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK

Publications

2024 Emerging Potters, Issue 36, United Kingdom

2022 ‘Top of the Pots’ - World of Interiors - May, June, July, and August edition

2021 Seeking Roots Catalogue, Cyprus

2019 ISCAEE Catalogue, South Korea

2017 ISCAEE Catalogue, United Kingdom