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Artistic Practice

Laurie Jeanne is a ceramic artist and former cancer researcher who makes vessels that undergo the same experiences she does. She brings a hand-formed hollow clay sphere to the shoreline, the creek, the woodland — and what acts on her acts on it. She calls this Autobiographical Objecthood: the vessel as co-experiencing body, developing a parallel biography through shared encounter, not representation.

The form at the heart of her practice — the unpote, from un pote, a companion — echoes her postdoctoral research at the Francis Crick Institute, where she studied how identity emerges through encounter rather than predetermined structure. She works from Sussex, gathering placeborne clays, pigments, and geological materials from the landscape.

exhibitions

2026 - Upcoming, Exhibitor at Therapeutic Landscapes II, Art House, Worcestor

2026 - Upcoming, Workshop at Therapeutic Landscapes II, Art House, Worcestor

2026 - Upcoming, Ashdown Arts Spring Art Fair, Forest Row

2026 - Upcoming, Designer-Maker Market, Artists Open Houses, Lark & Bloom, Brighton (2 May)

2026 - Shortlisted, Women, Land/Art Residency Open Call, Dartmoor

2026 - 54theGallery Open Call, Mayfair

2026 - Waitlisted, Towner Ceramic Fair, Eastbourne

2025 - Longlisted, LAC Saatchi Gallery Open Call, Chelsea

Foundation

My background as a biologist informs my understanding of material memory and regenerative systems. This foundation enriches my approach to clay as a living archive of transformation.

  • Cancer Research UK Postdoctoral Fellow, The Francis Crick Institute, London (2013–2017)

  • PhD in Biological & Chemical Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (2008–2013)

Publications

Scientific publications from my postdoctoral research in regenerative biology—archived on PubMed—form one strand of the lineage that now shapes my ceramic practice.

  • Peer‑reviewed articles in regenerative biology are available here.

  • Opinion review in Nature Reviews Cancer, cited more than 2,000 times (Google Scholar).

  • Ruiz-Hernández, R. et al. “Modeling the chondrocyte-derived osteoblasts formation process reveals its molecular signature and regulation network.” Bone Research. 2026.

Community Engagement & Facilitation

Community Clamp Kiln Firing Host

  • Organised collaborative firings with landowners, ceramicists, students, and local media

  • Shared ancestral techniques and ecological knowledge across generations

Studio Supervisor, The Kiln

  • Coordinated open studio sessions and provided free lessons

  • Supported emerging artists and fostered inclusive, intergenerational learning

Founder & Facilitator, Home Education Forest School Group

  • Ceramic projects with neurodivergent families using hand-building, creek clay, and natural ochres

  • Developed sensory-friendly, nature-based programming that centres material exploration and place-based learning

  • Certified Forest School Leader with Outdoor First Aid Training

Ancient Tree Inventory Volunteer Recorder (training, ongoing)

  • Recording ancient and veteran trees as part of the national living heritage archive

Professional memberships

Kent Potters Association, Ashdown Arts, Crowborough Arts, Craft Potters Association