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JULIA ELLEN LANCASTER

Julia Ellen Lancaster is a UK-based artist whose practice engages with clay, rock, and ceramics to interrogate the interplay between materiality, place, and human experience. Her work is often site-responsive, drawing upon the emotional resonance and historical specificity of landscapes. By integrating location, history, and community, Lancaster constructs sculptural forms that function as material signifiers, punctuating dialogues surrounding contemporary socio-environmental transformations. Her practice critically examines the dynamic relationship between humanity and the natural world, emphasising ceramics' unique capacity to bridge past and present. Working with reclaimed clays and recycled glazes her work synthesises artistic inquiry, environmental consciousness, and a degree of scientific reflection, employing process-driven experimentation and conceptual enquiry to provoke contemplation of injustices and environmental issues. 


A Royal College of Art graduate Lancaster works in London and Kent. She has completed numerous residencies including with Leach Pottery, St Ives (2020); Anchor Studio, Newlyn, (2021); Royal Melbourne Institute of Design, Australia (2024); Powell Cotton Musuem, Kent, 2024/25. Exhibiting globally, she also teaches ceramics and sculpture, is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Public Statues and Sculpture Association and has been featured on BBC Radio Cornwall (2021) and in Ceramics Now Magazine, 2025; Neue Keramik Magazine, 2025 and the Journal of Australian Ceramics, 2025.

ARTWORKS

EXHIBITIONS

PHANTASMS & FREQUENCIES

18 June - 5 July 2026

LIMINAL SALON III

15 November - 17 January 2026

LIMINAL SALON II: GROUP EXHIBITION

26 October - 23 November 2024

LIMINAL SALON: GROUP EXHIBITION

4 - 18 November 2023

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Selected Exhibitions:
2025
The Whole World In Our Hands - Group show - Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, London, April 2025
Ground Works - Group show - County Hall Pottery, London, May 2025
If Heaven Falls - Group show - The Lido Store Gallery, Margate February 2025
Shadders - Group show - Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea, January 2025

2024
Mosaic Art - Group show - Corner7Camden & London School of Mosaic, November 2024
Liminal Salon II - Liminal Gallery, Margate, November 2024
Past, Present, Future - Bankside Gallery, London, October 2024
Falling Angel - Solo show, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, June 2024
What Was Left, Thing Power - Three person show - Cliftonville Gallery, Margate, March 2024

2023
Liminal Salon - Liminal Gallery, November 2023
Deadly Bloom - Solo show - Liminal Gallery, Margate, October 2023
Small and Mighty Club - Ladies Drawing Club, Paris, June 2023
The Weight of Being - SVA John St Gallery, Stroud, May 2023
Rooted - Solo show, Poplar Union Arts Centre, London, April - May 2023

2022
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Solo show, m2 Gallery & Pavillion, London, Oct - Nov 2022
Vessels of Meaning - Jupitor Gallery, Newlyn, Sept 2022
Turner Contemporary Open X CRP - Turner Contemporary, Margate, Jan - Feb 2022

2021
Resettling - Newlyn Art Gallery, December 2021.
Resettling - Solo show, Anchor Studio, Newlyn, 2021
Whilst We Weren’t Listening - Solo show, Urban Room, Folkestone, 2021

2020
Lost & Found - Solo show, Poplar Union Arts Centre, London, 2020 - 21
Work in Progress - Group show, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, 2020

2019
Candid Arts - Group show, London, 2019

2018
Micro Museum - Solo show, Youkobo Arts Centre, Tokyo, 2018

Community Engagement
Glasshouse - Powell Cotton Museum, Birchington, 2022.
The Listening Project - Folkestone Fringe, Folkestone, 2021.
Trophy - Community Links, Canning Town, London, 2021.
Ceramics & Wellbeing - Pritchards Rd Day Centre, Bethnal Green, London, 2020.
1-2-1 Clayworks London Studio - Newham, London, 2018/19.

Residencies/Awards
Artist in Residence, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT University, Australia, 2024
Artist in Residence, Powell Cotton Museum, Birchington, 2024 - 2025
Leach 100 Residency Artist, Newlyn, Cornwall, 2021.
Leach 100 Residency Artist, St Ives, Cornwall, 2020.
Youkobo Art Centre Residency, Tokyo, 2018.
Youkobo Art Centre Residency, Tokyo, 2017.
Troy Town Art Pottery Residency - Open School East, 2014.

Commissions:
Powell Cotton Museum, Quex House, Birchington, Kent. 2022

Collections:
Fine Art Collection, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
Private collections in the UK, Japan and Australia.

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