Tessa Eastman is an award-winning artist with over twenty years’ of experience working with clay and glaze. Her dynamic sculpture sits at the vanguard of the contemporary ceramic art scene, offering originality, skill and a daring approach to the art form. Her sculptures appear curiously alive with movement and her Cloud Bundles have found a serious following among collectors, gallerists and ceramophiles alike. Work has been presented by the financial firms Abacus (2003), Gresham (2006) and Clifford Chance (2019).

Tessa was shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize (2017) and she won the Craft Emergency Award (2016). Solo shows include ‘Cloudspotting’ with Jason Jacques, NYC and ‘Le désordre en délice de l’imagination’ with Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, France (2019).

Her work has been selected for the British Ceramics Biennial (2015) and she received an honourable mention at the Korean Gyeonggi Ceramic Biennale (2017).

Tessa has been teaching since 2005, currently working at ceramic studios providing professional development including the Kiln Rooms and the Clay Garden as well as at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, one of London’s oldest Independent art colleges. She holds a ceramics BA Honours from the University of Westminster (2006), and a MA from the Royal College of Art (2015).

"Driven by a passion for lighting, my practice explores how light influences the emotional quality of an interior setting, and how subtle shifts in illumination can alter the way a space is experienced. I am interested in lighting not only as a functional necessity, but as a spatial tool capable of constructing an atmosphere, defining the character of an environment.

Influenced by principles of biophilic design, my work considers how natural references can be reintroduced into contemporary interiors through form, texture, and tactility. Rather than directly replicating natural forms, I translate their rhythms and irregularities through hand developed processes that allow subtle variations in form and surface.

My practice is fundamentally process-led. Through making, I investigate how material, thickness, and surface alter the behaviour of light. Working primarily with porcelain, I am drawn to its delicate yet durable nature and the way its translucency diffuses light. Using slipcasting as a method of control and experimentation, I refine wall thickness and surface detail to achieve a soft, ambient glow. Each piece evolves through refinement, balancing precision with organic form.

Positioned between craft and contemporary lighting design, my work explores how porcelain and light can be used deliberately to define the character of a space."