Flora Wallace London, United Kingdom

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Flora Wallace is a London-based ceramic artist creating hand-built stoneware plates and platters using a self-developed coloured-clay technique. Inspired by aerial landscapes and the photography of Edward Burtynsky and David Maisel, her work explores the tension between natural processes, human intervention and environmental change, translating vast, altered landscapes into unique domestic objects

Flora Wallace is a London-based ceramic artist whose practice explores the relationship between material, pattern and landscape. Working primarily with stoneware, she creates hand-built plates and platters using a distinctive, self-developed approach to coloured clay, drawing on the Japanese techniques of Nerikomi and Neriage.

Largely self-taught, Wallace developed her technique through evening ceramics courses and independent experimentation. She hand-colours and layers clay to create intricate patterns that transform as the material is worked, ensuring every piece is unique.

Her work is inspired by aerial photography and the patterns formed by geological processes, water and human intervention. Influenced by photographers Edward Burtynsky and David Maisel, she explores the tension between the visual beauty of altered landscapes and the environmental consequences of mining, extraction and industrial development.

Through the familiar forms of domestic tableware, Wallace translates vast and often overlooked landscapes into intimate, tactile objects, inviting reflection on our relationship with the natural world. She develops her practice in a shared ceramics studio in Stoke Newington, London, alongside a career outside the arts.