Ania Perkowska

Growing up as a child in communist Poland, my everyday life was underpinned and surrounded by stark, grey concrete structures – brutal, imposing, but unavoidable. This architecture was raw, substantial and woven into the history and fabric of the country and my upbringing. My work finds its foundations in that world, drawing from the same rawness but seeking beauty in form and function. 

I mainly work in stoneware, using clay with varying degrees of roughness. I either burnish the surface using stones and lightbulbs, or quite the opposite, scrape it with metal ribs to expose the texture.    

It is an aesthetic born of opposites, where darkness meets light, rough meets smooth and drabness conceals drama. A quiet elegance.