Chloe Monks

2019 QEST Arts Scholars' Company Scholar - Ceramics
Somerset

Chloe is a contemporary ceramic artist from Bristol. She gained an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the Royal College of Art, which enabled her to delve deeper into investigating material possibilities within ceramics, heavily led by the changing state of a substance.

QEST funding supported Chloe in the final year of her MA. The programme rooted her research into glaze and the forms upon which it breaks, and she embraces the opportunity of chance and effect through persistent innovation of techniques such as glaze labs, casting, frameworks, and varying kiln atmospheres. For the past 3 years, her work has focused upon gloopy glazes where glaze is used as a sculptural element, dictating form. Recently, Chloe has focused on the chemistry of glaze and shifted her practice to focus on the form as a canvas for complex chemistry.

I look intensively into the deepest details of the chemistry and material qualities. I question all possible outcomes to enable a wider range of choices – leading my work into new realms. I aim to push contemporary ceramics in ways that innovate the material and expands the category.

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