Senses, works by the Morley College Higher Education Ceramics 2026 Graduate students.
Senses presents an engaging collection of work by HNC Ceramics students, exploring how sensory experience shapes our perception of ourselves and the world around us. Through diverse responses, the students invite visitors to consider how the external senses—sight, scent, taste, touch, and sound—interact with the internal senses of proprioception, interoception, and neuroception.
Laura Akdaş Moss
Moss creates predominantly decorative ceramic sculpture rather than functional pottery, with each piece intended to hold meaning and narrative. Drawn to maximalist aesthetics, she embraces bold colour, expressive form, and layered detail. Inspiration comes from many sources, including human nature, portraiture, fashion, interiors, and evolving cultural moods and trends.
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Lisa Castle @lisacastlemakes
Lisa Castle
Castle explores themes of the body, balance, and vulnerability through sculpture. Her work often focuses on the lived experience of the female body, challenging conventional representations shaped by the male gaze. Drawing on her previous career as an aerial performer, she creates forms that evoke fragility, precarity and danger. Through their delicate balance and sense of instability, these sculptures invite empathy, tension, and a heightened awareness of the body's resilience and vulnerability.
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Susie Vittay
Born and raised in Hungary, Vittay has always been surrounded by hand made homeware. Her ancestry draws on the entire Carpathian basin and the rich traditions are a strong source of her inspiration. This comes through in her work subconsciously, resulting in a narrative evoking warmth and happiness. The serenity of nature, crafts of her homeland and the exploration of patterns culminate in pieces satisfying to hold, reflecting the love with which they are made.
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Mel Johnson
Johnson grew up in London but now lives between the sea and the beautiful New Forest. Her inspiration comes from nature, both the bucolic pastoral side but also the realities of the survival of the fittest. She relishes the wild winter storms and ever changing skies and hopes to capture these in her work.
Anne- Frederique Dujon
Dujon works with clay to create figurative sculpture and functional objects. Her practice explores emotion, relationships, and how we connect—to each other and the world around us. The work sits between object and narrative, suggesting stories without fixing them. She is not interested in perfection—she values unexpected combinations and small imperfections.
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Deon Glasgow
Glasgow’s focus is on the positive psychological benefits of engaging creativity. She explores a variety of mediums to see where the materials lead her in an effort to find peace and flow.
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Simona Casadei
Through their work, Simo invites viewers to reflect on connection, love, mortality, and our shared fragility, while recognising our enduring capacity for compassion and care. Nature is a constant presence in their practice. Its forms, colours, geometry, and resilience inspire works that are both beautiful and subtly grotesque, often carrying a darker undertone. Influenced by queer ecology and Surrealism, Simo frequently merge human and natural elements, with faces emerging from tree trunks and bodies transforming into flowers or branches.
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Jane Aliband
Aliband creates porcelain lighting that blends 3D printing with some of the most ancient ceramic firing techniques. She works with liquid clay cast in 3D-printed moulds, before saggar firing each piece with oxides and combustible materials, resulting in unpredictable, organic surface patterns and unique finishes.
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