Chloé Rosetta Bell is a Ceramic Artist. Material-focused and primarily working in clay, her practice examines the livelihoods dependent on a specific landscape. This is driven by her relationship with the land surrounding her home on the Isle of Wight. Situated in the Undercliff it is one of the largest areas of urban landslip in Europe.

Chloé studies the materials and narratives connected to the site to inform her collections. By sourcing and transforming these materials, her objects become a tangible celebration of the landscape, placing a subtle but essential emphasis on its sustainability. They act as a physical and sensory record that preserves the landscape and the livelihoods that depend upon it.

“For the past three years, I have read and re-read Botanical Companions by Frieda Knobloch. Each time I opened her book I felt a resonance with my craft practice and how botanists, Ruth and Aven Nelson viewed nature. There is a resonance between craft practices which study nature and nature-study illustrated in Botanical Companions. My studio is a proposal for an interdisciplinary approach to providing an enriched representation of a landscape.”

Chloé Rosetta Bell
2024

CHLOE ROSETTA BELL
St Lawrence, Isle of Wight.

Email: info@chloerosettabell.com
Instagram: chloerosettabell
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EDUCATION
2020 Crafts Council Hothouse - now Crafting Business Programme
2019 Masters in Ceramics & Glass, Royal College of Art, Distinction
Translating Nature: An Investigation into the methodologies in Craft and ‘Nature-Study’. - Dissertation
2017 Bachelor of Arts, Contemporary Craft, Plymouth College of Art, First

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Of Water’ Maud and Mabel, London
2023 ‘Material Beings’, Cromwell Place, London
2023 Collect, Somerset House, London
2022 Duo Show, Rose Farm and Gin Makers, New Craftsman, St Ives, Cornwall
2022 Solo Show, Sea Salt Makers, Flow Gallery, Notting Hill, London
2020 Our Isles, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales
2020 Moments of Reflection, Flow Gallery, Notting Hill, London
2020 Shaping the Future, The New Craftsmen, St Ives, Cornwall
2019 British Ceramics Biennial FRESH
2019 Royal College of Art Degree Show
2018 Plate Up, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey

EDITORIAL
2022 ‘The Cliff Whisperer’, Werde Magazine, Germany, Winter 2022
2021 ‘Clay Landscapes’, Home Magazine, France, Summer 2021
2021 ‘The Most Beautiful Ceramics by Independent Studios’, House & Garden UK, 2021
2020 ‘A Sense of Food & Place’, Our Isles, 2020
2020 ‘Nature Translator’, Label Magazine #41, 2020
2019 Top Ten Graduates to Watch, Crafts Magazine, Crafts Council

PROJECTS
2019-2022 Design Consultant, Photographer/Videographer
2019 Studio Assistant, Studio Marlene Huissoud, Paris
2019 Collaboration Restaurant, The Kitchen Table, Marylebone Food Supplier, Porthilly Oyster Farm
2019 Restaurant, Sosban & The Old Butchers, Anglesey Food Supplier, Halen Mon

AWARDS
2017-19 The Griffin Scholarship, Masters in Ceramics & Glass, Royal College of Art