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