SAFFRON SUMMERFIELD
Cluster Crafts Exhibitor | Young Talent Spotlight | 2024
“My current practice is centered around ‘speculative futures’ investigating narratives surrounding ‘object histories’ through imagined world building, both dystopian and utopian. The sculptures themselves are an amalgamation of the familiar and unfamiliar. Once produced, my ceramic creations become petrified (an anticipation of our story told in rock), a vision or premonition serving as a message to a future beyond our knowledge. Inert objects in the environment; impermeable, persistent, permanent, outliving us to tell a story of our relationship with Earth.”
ANGEL FROM AN ANTIQUE LAND | 2023
Saffron Summerfield is a multimedia practitioner currently working with the medium of Ceramics. She received a First-class Honours BA in Contemporary Arts Practice from Bath School of Art (2020). Since completing her BA, she has embarked on two residencies at the Guldagergaard international ceramics research center, Denmark, during 2021 and 2022 as well as completing a Masters Degree at the Royal College of Art, 2023.
Saffron’s work has also been shortlisted for the Artsthread / i-D Global Design Graduate show, and she is a previous winner of the Potclays Graduate Award (2020)
RAIN GRAVESTONE & DOG WITH BREATHING PROBLEMS | 2023