The Artist

Lucia Vecchiarelli

Biography

Neapolitan ceramic artist, she lives and works in Pozzuoli. She trained between Deruta and Naples, two historic centres of the Italian ceramic tradition, at the school of Romano Ranieri.

Her research is rooted in raku ceramics, complex glazes and metallic finishes: a language in which the human figure, the animal world and mechanical fragments merge into a visionary, deeply material imagery.

Each firing leaves the material a margin of unpredictability that makes every work unrepeatable: it is fire that signs, together with the artist, the final result.

“Fluid passage: a complete immersion into one's own unconscious, where every trace of us is found. And to quote Heraclitus, no man ever steps in the same river twice.”

Statement

“Sharing: sharing such an intense passion is a visceral act, an exchange of love.”