Avis Dou
Ceramics & Glass MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Glass / Contemporary Craft
My location: London, United Kingdom
Avis Dou
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.
Precious Seed continues my interest in using glass to suggest both beauty and unease. I am drawn to how the same material can become rough, soft, wet or flesh-like through different temperatures and ways of making. For this work, I first made the pomegranate seeds with full fuse glass and cold working, so they look smooth and bright. Then I mixed glass powder with modelling glass medium to make a clay-like material. I shaped the pomegranate by hand and pressed the seeds into it one by one. This model was later used to make a plaster mould and fired again. The process lets me keep the rough shell, the handmade marks, and the glossy, bodily feeling of the seeds.