Laurie Jeanne is a Sussex-based ceramicist working within contemporary

craft and ecological new materialism. She hand-builds vessels in stoneware and with placeborne clays foraged from coastlines, ancient woodland, and chalk downland.

Much of her work begins on the Sussex coast, where vessels are shaped by tidal forces and wave action rather than fixed design. The resulting forms carry indexical marks: traces of specific landscapes, waterways, and encounters between body and place. She calls this framework Autobiographical Objecthood — the piece as witness, co-authored by land and sea.

Her current work extends into woodlands, including an ongoing project at Standen, exploring sandstone quarries, storied trees, and the blurring of landscape and home. Her practice grows through learning: new environments, their materials, cultural and geographic histories, and the encounter between the clay and the body in each place.