Leora Honeyman is a UK-based, multi-media artist, centred in the crafts of ceramics and glass. Intrigued by everyday things and their capacity for exchange and understanding, she reimagines use, materiality, and process to discuss ethnographically subjective realities. The purpose of her objects, whilst hinting at the familiar, prompts the viewer to consider both their cultural origin and the habits of the people to whom they may belong.

 

Her collections frequently tend towards a restorative response, such as with theDjinn Jar series and with the Thrones of the Fae, through which she presents magical items that provoke speculative consideration of missing legacies resulting from the loss of the witches.

Working across multiple processes, she employs her skills, craftsmanship and empathic understanding of materials in unusual ways. Digitally produced geometries are subjected to unpredictable material transformations in the kiln, while pattern and purpose are transplanted from their usual associations, offering end results which encourage an otherworldly interpretation of the work.

Honeyman was born in Zimbabwe, and her creative practice is influenced by those early years spent within the extraordinary ecology of the land and the intersection of human cultures. 

Shifting from a career in architectural and event design to pursue a path ofCeramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art, she was awarded the prestigiousQEST scholarship to complete this M.A. She emerged as a notable maker of collectible design works, featured as one to watch by press including CraftMagazine, Ceramics Review, and was included in Corinne Julias’ talent round-up,Future Heritage.

During her studies, she was awarded the British Ceramics Biennial ‘FreshTalent’ residency, and undertook further independent training with master craftsmen, including glass master Jochen Holz. She received the Artist'sNewsletter bursary for independent research in 2023 and has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Westerwald prize, Charlotte Frazer HoltFestival Prize, and the inaugural Rabih Hage bursary.

Honeyman has exhibited work internationally, notably at the Design Museum,London, the prestigious design fair PAD London, Design Miami, and Homo Faber in Venice.

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