Lil Sanderson - BA (Hons) Product Design and Craft
My People Make Things
Lil Sanderson is a Ceramic artist who holds a great love and interest for the revival of heritage craft. She pulls her inspiration from her hometown of Sunderland and its little -known crafting history, more specifically its potteries that once produced Sunderland Ware. Lils work combines references of historical ceramic pieces and their characteristics and considerately brings them into the now with a twist of her own style through her 3D modelling sculpture work and experimental glaze application. She believes that the scale of her work is important in creating presence and importance to her subject matter. Her mission is to bring attention to lesser-known branches of heritage craft and to explore the stories and knowledge that can be learnt from it, and hopefully eventually, through enough awareness, bring it back. Sunderland was an important starting place for Lil as through the creation of these pieces she got to explore her own families crafting roots and how craft was once very much ingrained in the culture of the city of Sunderland. Through this collection, “My People Make Things”, she has explored the classical past of Sunderland ware, the culture of the city and how Sunderland ware could potentially be modernised for current audiences.
