About

Celia Dowson is a UK based artist working with ceramics and cast glass primarily focusing on the vessel. Her work is an exploration of fluidity and form, looking at how materials can express physical forces and reflect characteristics of the natural environment. Across both mediums, she applies a design and material-led process that combines traditional techniques with material experimentation and tool adaptation. This approach creates unique textures and a sense of movement within her work through her development of form, colour, and translucency.

The finished pieces become contemplative objects, sanded and polished to reveal layered tones, depths of colour, and subtle surfaces that evoke atmospheric qualities. Through these artefacts, Celia reflects on the interconnection between people and place, and how materials can shapes our understanding and experience of the world.

Celia Dowson is a graduate of the Royal College of Art (2018), specialising in ceramic and cast glass. Prior to this she completed her BA Hons. (2014) in Ceramic Design from the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins. She has received a number of awards including a Bullseye Glass Award (2022 & 2023), Wallpaper* Design Award (2020), The Tom Helme Scholarship from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (2017). Dowson has worked closely with leading restaurants and partnerships including Petrus by Gordon Ramsay, The Grand Mandarin Hotels, The London Peninsular and John Smedley. Along side a design practice she exhibits across the UK and internationally and her work is included in three museum collections notably the Victoria & Albert Museum London, The National Museums Scotland and The New Taipei City Yingge Ceramic Museum, Taiwan