Bonnie Grace
Bonnie Grace is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, ceramics and printmaking. Her practise centres on antiques and ceramics, investigating, dissecting and reinterpreting these objects through a contemporary lens. Growing up surrounded by her mother’s antique business, she developed a fascination with the intricate patterns, diverse forms and histories embedded in everyday objects.
Her ceramics offer a personal interpretation of commemorative ware, drawing particular inspiration from Welsh ceramics and the dressers on which they were displayed. Bonnie begins with continuous line drawings, treating clay almost as if it were paper, folding and pinching slabs into distinctive two and three-dimensional forms. She embellishes these with layers of underglaze, ceramic pencil, decals and lustres, drawing on historic patterns while embedding coded references to memory, emotion and thought. Each piece carries its own personality, balancing tradition with innovation.