Prick

with Leah Jensen

Leah Jensen, the ‘anti-digital’ artist-maker, has brought a punk aesthetic to 1882 Ltd. with her Prick collection, a bold, avantgarde spiked limited edition collection, consisting of a bowl and vase.

Marking a distinct departure from her studio work, Prick’s forceful presence and industrial production is a direction that Jensen has been wanting to explore for some time. While drawing inspiration from the look and feel of the Palaeolithic inspired pottery her mother and aunt made as a hobby when she was a child, Jensen has brought to these new pieces her love for all things Punk. A feat of engineering in themselves, with a complex geometrical structure of the spikes, Prick has been left unglazed to maintain the crispness of detail and the depth of colour.

With all 164 spikes being hand placed individually by our master potters in Stoke-On-Trent, Prick is the culmination of months of intensive work. Marrying Jensen’s incredible creative vision with the expertise and skill of the UK’s ceramics industry, Prick effortlessly blends a rebellious Punk aesthetic with contemporary ceramics to create a statement piece that wholeheartedly encompasses both Jensen’s and 1882 Ltd.’s radical spirit.

Leah Jensen is best known for her insanely intricate capturing of renaissance paintings but there is also part of her that is punk. There is also part of 1882 that is punk (quite a big part at heart)

  • Designer

    Leah Jensen

    Leah Jensen is a multidisciplinary artist-maker, born in Cornwall, 1990. Fortunate to be raised in a creative family, her education in art and making began in childhood, learning both the creative and practical applications of a broad range of materials.

    In 2010 Jensen began her Degree in Contemporary Crafts at Falmouth University, where she would develop a method that has since evolved to become a signature style. This process involves an image mapping technique that enables her to carve intricate geometric interpretations of Renaissance paintings into ceramic pots. The result is a work of vivid, immaculate detail as if to appear digitally manufactured, a style which Jensen playfully describes as ‘anti-digital’.

    Today Jensen lives in London, working from a space at Cockpit Studios. She continues to carve ceramic vessels, whilst working on a number of other projects.