TALK SERIES: SUSTAINABILITY & CERAMICS
During this 1 hour live Zoom talk (40 minute talk + Q&A) Sara will talk about Circular Ceramics and how it minimises the consumption of finite raw materials and diverts waste away from landfill, securing a future for the ceramics industry and our planet.
Sara is an award-winning ceramic designer and materials researcher, whose practice is focussed on reducing the environmental and societal impacts of ceramic production.
THIS EVENT HAS NOW PASSED it was live and intentionally unrecorded.
Sara will also talk about her project in the Fari Islands, Maldives where she is delivering workshops to hand build ceramic structures to aid the restoration of coral, the forms were designed specifically for coral propagation and budding.
This talk is the first in our digital artist talk series on ceramics and sustainability practices. More information on Sara for info/reference is below.
We believe in transparency regarding artist fees. Sara is being paid a fee of £120 for this talk. Tickets are being sold on a pay-what-you decide basis with a recommended £5.00 ticket donation.
Sara graduated from Central St. Martins in 2020, studying BA Honours Degree in Ceramic Design. In her final year, Sara designed an industrial symbiosis around the ceramics industry, whereby waste from one industry replaces the raw materials in ceramic production. Sara’s methods and processes are shared in her book, Circular Ceramics, allowing fellow ceramicists to adopt the sustainable processes in their own practice.
Since 2020 Sara has continued to work on expanding the use of industrial waste streams, participated in exhibitions, and delivered lectures, workshops, and talks. Currently, Sara is collaborating with ceramic producers and mass manufacturers to implement the use of industrial waste on a larger scale.
Collaboration is at the core of Sara’s practice and she believes sustainable solutions should not be locked away in patents. Accessibility and transparency have the potential to create systemic changes which have a wider positive ecological and societal impact.