Alice Adler

Alice is a British/Australian ceramicist currently based in Bristol, specialising in handbuilt patterned porcelain vessels. Her practice focuses on creating functional ceramic forms using a unique technique of laminating coloured segments of porcelain, in a similar method to wooden parquetry. Inspired by the urban environment and textiles, each of her one-off pieces is a result of a technically challenging confluence of visual aesthetics and vessel structure. 

Alice’s making process involves meticulously layering and fusing coloured porcelain strips or geometric shapes into intricately patterned slabs, using practices which are somewhat similar to the techniques of Nerikomi and traditional Ceramic Inlay. Each porcelain slab is carefully sliced open and filled numerous times to assemble each of the visual elements, not only providing surface decoration but also making up the structure and body of the vessel. She enjoys the process of combining various colours and shapes to create cohesive, harmonious designs in each vessel, the unglazed surfaces of which are smoothed and polished to produce a soft, tactile surface that invites you to hold them.