Rio Darwin - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Rio Darwin is a sculptural ceramicist, translating the ephemerality of place into tangible forms. Rooted in the shifting landscapes of The Holderness Coast, Darwin’s phenomenological approach to the land manifests as organic, evolving sculptures.
Clay, in its malleable state, exists as both a physical and conceptual medium, mirroring the unstable and impressionable qualities of coastal terrain; each contour, ridge and crack, a preservation of touch. Darwin explores the reactive and adaptive potential of glaze, utilising the process to memorialise fluidity within inanimate forms.
Through nurturing an interdependency between ceramics and metalwork, Darwin’s practice honours the tension between vulnerability and resilience. These grounded sculptures envision the evolving landscapes of our future ecology, where material becomes a site of both memory and transformation.
