Originally from Dublin, Sharon Armstrong-Williams is a ceramic artist whose work explores the tactile dialogue between material, process, and emotion.
After graduating from the Winchester School of Art with a BA Hons in constructed textile design in the 90’s she went on to design for companies such as Sandersons, Colefax and Fowler and Paperchase while later forging a career developing leadership in the cultural sector.
Working primarily with a varity of stoneware and porcelain clays, natural oxides, and materials, her process is one of experimentation and response. Often, raw dark clay acts as a grounding force—its inherent roughness and density underpinning the more translucent and matt layers that emerge above. Surfaces are built over time, fired and refired, each cycle revealing traces of transformation. Cracks, fissures, and veils of material become integral to the work, capturing the alchemy of making and the unpredictability of the firing process.
Her vessels, hold a quiet complexity. There is rhythm in her hand-built marks—curious, intuitive, and spontaneous, the memory of the making process is imbued in each piece.
Each piece is unique, thrown on the wheel and hand built, often altered and developed over a period of weeks and months.