R E S I D E N C Y #3
ARTISTS
ELLIOTT DENNY
Elliott Denny is a British designer and artist based in London. Working mainly with clay he creates sculptural ceramics and homeware inspired by details from the built environment, mechanical components and natural landscapes. His practise is driven by process, utilising a range of production methods, often building or adapting his own machines, combining old and new technologies.
He has exhibited at the British Ceramics Biennial and during London Design Festival, London Craft Week and undertaken a residency at the International Ceramics Research Centre, Denmark.
ALEX SIMPSON
Alex Simpson is a British artist based in London. Her work spans painting, drawing, sculpture and installation with a focus on clay. She is particularly interested in the transitional nature of clay from soft, to hard, fluid to plastic, impermanent to permanent. Her approach shifts between intuitive and controlled, to allow the unknown to enter into the creative process and think through making. She looks to create a sense of uncertainty; an ambiguity of form or surface, referencing the body, landforms and water. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London and the University of Brighton.
TOURISTES TRISTES
Océane Bruel and Dylan Ray Arnold are visual artists based in Helsinki, collaborating as Touristes Tristes (since 2014) alongside their individual practices. They share a material-poetic approach to sculpture, assemblage, installation and printed matter. Dylan and Océane are interested in the everyday ecology of material spirits; looking for familiar and dreamlike forms and compositions of intimacy, distance and belonging.
Their work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Helsinki Art Museum gallery, 2020, at Glassbox, Paris 2019, at Titanik Gallery, Turku, 2017, and in group exhibitions in the Nordic countries and in France.
HANNA-KAISA KOROLAINEN
Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen is Finnish multidisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher. She has been showing her artworks in exhibitions in Finland and abroad, from Beijing to Milan and New York. Her latest exhibitions include, for example, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Design Museum Helsinki, Craft Museum of Finland, Ostrobothnian Museum, historical art nouveau site Hvitträsk or Collectible Fair in Brussels.
