Ninique
Ninique is an early-stage ceramic artist based in East London. With a background in illustrative drawing, painting, and life drawing, her ceramic pieces often take on sculptural, organic, and meandering forms. She is especially drawn to themes of femininity, sculpted faces and hands, metamorphosis and nature. Working out of the Sustainable Makers of London Studio, she works predominantly with reclaimed clay and glazes, through hand building, plaster work and carving techniques.
This collection explores figurative and abstract sculpture through handbuilt ceramics. I work with reclaimed stoneware gathered from across the Sustainable Makers of London Studio and marbled together, creating surfaces that are unpredictable, and unique. I rarely start with a strict plan, choosing instead to follow a mood or idea and respond to what the clay reveals.
The Sculpted Imaginings series merges abstract shapes-creatures, people, and thoughts entwined. Designed to evolve over time, each form holds space for a candle, allowing light to interact with the pieces' curves and openings. As wax drips and accumulates, the pieces are meant to age and transform, echoing the slow, organic processes of erosion, growth, and memory
Recurring across the collection are feminine forms, faces, and hands; used to explore ideas of vulnerability, transformation, and emotional presence. Surfaces are finished with oxide stains, glaze, or left raw and sanded to reveal the marbled clay beneath. These works reflect a process-led approach: tactile, expressive, and rooted in material connection.
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