15 artistas latinoamericanos que dejan su huella en Reino Unido
Vogue México
Desde 2018 llegó por azares del destino a la capital de UK, para trabajar con el estudio Crown Works Pottery y crear la vajilla del restaurante KOL. ‘Me lancé a la locura y fue así como empecé mi vida aquí: tuve la suerte de sentirme apoyada. Yo creo que ser latina y mexicana me hace sentir orgullosa, creo que somos muy trabajadores, adaptables y dedicados…
Making an Imprint with Sculptor turned Ceramicist Lucia Ocejo
TOAST Magazine
Lucia Ocejo is describing a transformative moment, when she held a Korean chawan, or tea bowl. It was some 300 years old, with uneven lines to its shape and indents from the potter’s fingers, which she covered with her own. “I felt a connection to the maker,” she says, "and, ever since then, I’ve thought of the work I do with more tactility, sometimes leaving the marks of how I made it, too.”
Q&A with Lucia Ocejo
Revolution of Forms
I became acquainted with the British Studio Pottery movement after moving to the United Kingdom in 2018. Since then, I became familiar with the work of Bernard Leach, the “father of the British Pottery movement” and his ideas behind craftsmanship.
Terrence Higgins Trust
Christie’s Auction House
Two largest of the collection, they are inspired by traditional Oaxaca Pottery while infused and adapted to be thrown on the potter’s wheel by utilising British studio-pottery techniques and high fire technology. For Ocejo, the Aortic vessels work like transplants, extracted from one culture and introduced to another - like hearts given to a foreign body.