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Avis Dou
Ceramics & Glass MA

Royal College of Art

Graduates: 2025

Specialisms: Glass / Contemporary Craft

My location: London, United Kingdom

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Royal College of Art

Avis Dou

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First Name: Avis

Last Name: Dou

University / College: Royal College of Art

Course / Program: Ceramics & Glass MA

Graduates: 2025

Specialisms: Glass / Contemporary Craft

My Location: London, United Kingdom

About

Avis uses kilnformed glass as a painterly medium, embracing its versatility and unpredictability. Through layering, reusing fragments, and adding materials like metal and decals, she explores narrative and emotion. Her practice reflects on memory, transforming fragility and pain into strength, humor, and visual intimacy.

Decomposing a Bicycle

Specialisms:

Glass Sculpture

Taking the mushroom fungus in nature as a reference, the glass mycelium grows and spreads on the grass and the old bicycle, occupying and expanding its own territory, creating a great contrast with the surrounding environment. The use of glass as a medium demonstrates the lushness of life and erosion. Nature's decomposers turn the remains of animals and plants into dust and return them to the cycle of life. Often, however, man-made industrial materials are absent from this process, unable to be properly housed and reused, achieving a worthless demise. Abandoned bicycles can be found everywhere in the campus, and they are discarded and forgotten with the departure of their owners. Therefore, I chose the bicycle as a symbol, and used the glass material, which is also an artificial product, to cover it, showing a kind of false disintegration and burial, and restoring the inevitable process of the natural environment to the industrial product, embodying a kind of introspection and reflection on the collision of industry and nature.