Terrence Higgins Trust - 2023, Timed Auction

Lucia Ocejo is a Mexican-born potter currently working from Hackney, London. These two ceramic vessels from the Aortic Collection were made in collaboration with Revolution of Forms and exhibited at the Mexican Embassy for London Craft week in May 2022.

Two largest of the collection, they are inspired by traditional Oaxacan pottery while infused and adapted to be thrown on the potters wheel by utilising British studio-pottery techniques and high fire technology. For Ocejo, the Aortic vessels work like transplants, extracted from one culture and introduced to another - like hearts given to a foreign body. They celebrate the universality of pottery and the different languages that it speaks.

Instagram: @lucia.ocejo