Talking Clay: Camilla Hanney

We’re delighted to host Camilla Hanney as the next artist in our Talking Clay series. Camilla is currently our Clay City Professional Resident at Throwing Shapes, working from the studio until the end of April - making this a wonderful opportunity to hear directly from her about her practice and the work she’s developing during her time with us.

📅 Date: Wednesday, 18th March
🕕 Time: 6:00 – 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Throwing Shapes

Join us for an intimate evening as Camilla shares insights into her creative process, influences, and the ideas shaping her current body of work while in residence at Throwing Shapes.

About Artist:
Camilla Hanney (b. 1992) is an Irish artist living and working in London. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London (MFA, 2017–2019) and Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Visual Arts Practice, 2010–2015).

Since moving to London, Camilla’s work has been exhibited widely across the UK and Ireland, including presentations at the South London Gallery (in conjunction with Bloomberg New Contemporaries), Messums, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, The Rosenfeld Gallery and Cromwell Place. She was the 2019/20 recipient of the Sarabande Foundation studio bursary and has received numerous awards, including the Irish Visual Arts Bursary Award (2020 and 2024) and the 2022 Newbury Trust Craft Excellence Award in conjunction with Cockpit Arts.

Camilla’s practice explores themes of time, sexuality, cultural identity and the corporeal. Her ceramic sculptures are both narrative and figurative, often asserting the carnal aspects of our bodies and their desires. By materialising the familiar in an unfamiliar context her work stimulates our ability to rethink our relationship towards objects, threatening the natural order and toying with the tensions that lie between beauty and repulsion, curiosity and discomfort, desire and disgust.