Ali Hewson is a ceramic artist, working from her Norfolk studio where every piece is made by hand. Inspired by 17th-century slipware and London Delftware, her work combines history with contemporary forms, using iron-heavy and white stoneware clays, and slips coloured with iron and cobalt oxides.
Ali Hewson (b. 1989) is an artist currently living and working in East Anglia, UK. She makes ceramic tableware and vessels inspired by historical objects, handwriting studies and repeated motifs. Her work applies traditional techniques to contemporary forms, often looking to 17th century slipware and London Delftware pieces.
A refined colour palette is led by materials; iron-heavy and white stoneware clays, and small batches of slip made by hand and carefully coloured with iron and cobalt oxides.
Her tulipieres and hand pieces, in minimal black or off white, are thrown in multiple parts on the wheel, the joining together of spouts to body is as much of a drawing as making process- line becoming three dimensional form
A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts, her work is stocked in galleries and stores across Europe and North America. It has been featured in publications including The World Of Interiors, House & Garden, Country Living, Elle Decoration, The FT and more, and exhibited in venues including the Leach Pottery, Sessions Arts Club, and the Ashmolean Museum. She has taken part in artist residencies at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Boath House, and co-runs Drawing Club in Norwich.
