Wild Clay with Unurgent Argilla

In 2021, Clara Holt and Nina Salsotto Cassina of Unurgent Argilla started a collaboration to narrate specific places through their combined styles of storytelling: materials and decoration.

Clara specialises in sgraffito illustrations on ceramics, mostly drawn from classical literature and Greek epics themes. Nina focuses on material research of wild clays and rocks and mainly throws spherical vessels at the wheel.

Together they are working on a series of vessels and tiles made and decorated with different wild clays rocks collected throughout Italy. Each piece is thrown and the illustration is specific to the setting where the materials were collected. Their first vessels together focus on volcanic materials and Pantelleria, with scenes from the myth of Calipso decorated with rhyolite, smectite and basalts foraged on the island.

Part of this work was presented in London for Collect 2023 with Thrown.
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