Statement
My practice explores the intersections of ceramics with sculpture, painting and drawing. I construct ceramic ‘canvases’ with slabs or larger hand coiled sculptural forms with stoneware clay that become the substrate for spraying, brushing, and slip-trailing layers of the ceramic reactive glazes and materials I have developed over the last decade.
The compostions are created by applying the glazes by brushing painted blocks of colour, spraying accents and drawing spontaneous fluid lines using a slip trailer. The work is fired to stoneware temperatures where the materials interact and transform through alchemical processes. These metamorphic changes produce unpredictable outcomes, affecting the surface, colour and texture of the work. I see the final pieces as metaphorical paintings and drawings, inspired by geology and the transformative forces of metamorphism.
I hold a BSc in Geology and an MA in Ceramics from Cardiff Metropolitan University and live and work in Bristol, UK.
DANIEL DZURUSU, USGS
Education
MA Ceramics Cardiff Metropolitan University
PGCE Bath Spa University
BSC Hons Earth Sciences Oxford Brookes University
Exhibitions
2025
Visual Language Vistas, Subliminal Gallery, LA, US
Irving Gallery Open Competition, Oxford, UK
BV Studios Open, BV Studios, Bristol. UK
2024
Close, That Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
In the Windows, That Art Gallery, Bristol. UK
BV Studios Open, BV Studios, Bristol. UK
2023
Still and Still Moving, OD Festival, Somerset. UK
Keramos, Cabanamad, Lisbon. Portugal
Mixed Exhibition, Vasto Gallery, Barcelona. Spain
BV Studios Open, BV Studios, Bristol. UK
2020
Creative Distancing, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie. US
2019
Lets Talk About the Anthropocene, Grande Parade Gallery, Brighton. UK
BV Studios Open, BV Studios, Bristol. UK
Spaces Reimagined, KOSAR Gallery, Bristol. UK
BV Studios Open, BV Studios, Bristol. UK
Igneous Futures, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff. UK.
Residencies
2022
Greensand Residency Wiltshire with Found Outdoors
Teaching and Mentoring
Bath Spa University
Cardiff Met
Collections
Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collection