Artist Info
Grace Wilson
Grace Wilson, artist and illustrator.
Foundation 2004-2005
BA Ceramic Design, 2005- 2008
MFA Konstfack University of Art and Design, Stockholm.
Grace Wilson was born in 1986 and grew up in Edinburgh. After Foundation at Central Saint Martins she studied ceramics and then moved to Stockholm to pursue an MFA in storytelling at Konstfack University of Art and Design.
Her work has always spanned ceramics and traditional illustration.
“After wrestling and failing with the design side of things, in my final year I ended up creating quite basic figurative and illustrative pieces that were rather storytelling in nature, by drawing in graphite over white porcelain figurines,”
It was in Sweden that Grace made her first foray into the world of comics. “Sweden has a really strong comics tradition, especially in the area of autobiography, and my professor at the time was very encouraging, pushing me to pull out the stories behind the people and imagery I was creating” .
It was also here that Grace got back into the ceramics workshop. “It felt nice to be both making ceramics and doing comics,” she says. “Almost like I was creating action figures of the characters in my comics.” That emphasis on narrative and backstories, so important to comics, is also visible in her ceramic figurines.
from: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/grace-wilson-ceramic-characters-illustration-060919
