Myrna Mitchell is a London-based ceramic artist whose work explores human connection, storytelling, and the expressive potential of the human figure. Using traditional hand-building techniques, she creates vessels, figurative works, and organic sculptures that feel both ancient and contemporary. Her practice is rooted in slow, intuitive making processes, with clay serving as a medium for exploring memory, presence, and emotional resonance. By combining ancient ceramic techniques with contemporary concerns, her work bridges past and present, offering objects that feel timeless yet grounded in reality.

Mitchell holds a First-Class BA (Hons) in Creative Arts Practice from Bath Spa University, where she received the Creative Arts Practice Outstanding Achievement Award in 2022. She is currently a maker at Cockpit Bloomsbury studios in London. Recent exhibitions include British Ceramics Biennial 2025 as a Fresh Selected Artist, the John Ruskin Prize Exhibition 2025 and the Cockpit Effect Exhibition during London Craft Week 2026. She was also a contributing artist to the recent Secret Ceramics sale at Sotheby's in London.

"My practice uses clay as a vessel for storytelling, emotional resonance, and cultural connection. Rooted in universal traditions of making, I use ceramics to explore memory, identity, and what it means to be human. Working primarily through hand-building techniques, I employ the slow, meditative processes of coiling, carving, scraping, and burnishing, allowing time and touch to shape each piece intuitively. Through this tactile, time-intensive process, I aim to create pieces that are not only visually compelling but deeply evocative. Many works remain unglazed to preserve the raw tactility of clay and emphasise intimacy, materiality and depth.

I am particularly interested in merging historical forms of storytelling with contemporary themes, drawing inspiration from traditions such as Greek and Assyrian relief carving to reflect modern behaviours and relationships. Through figurative sculpture, vessels, and organic forms, I create works that inhabit a space between past and present. My ceramics encourage viewers to reflect on identity, belonging, and the emotional complexity of human experience within an increasingly disconnected world."