Clayworx: Emerging 2025
Online Exhibition

We are excited to announce our new online exhibition! featuring work by affiliated ceramic art students, this unique collection of artwork offers an opportunity to experience the creative exploration and craftsmanship of up-and-coming ceramicists!

Pieces will also be on display in our gallery and retail space at 664 Dundas St.
​Until September 26, 2025

​Eugenia Yoon
​
Miaka Fredin

Mallory Butlin

Tatiana Argueta Garcia

Veronica Sarata

Madelyn Fenton

Sam Van Geel

Christina Martin-Smith

Miaka  Fredin
Instagram: @miakafredin

Artist Bio
Miaka Fredin is a young artist from London, Ontario. She specializes in both ceramic and textile work, taking an appreciation of the nature of the raw materials. There is also an ongoing exploration of texture and colour presented throughout her portfolio, being experimented on organic coil built vessels. This is all showcased through her Instagram, @miakafredin.
Miaka has slowly expanded her body of work from learning in different environments. Bealart was her first formal art school and she was there for two years. For post-secondary, she initially went to Concordia for ceramics to then transfer to the University of Western Ontario’s art history program after one year. Over this summer, she finished up being the mosaic assistant at Clayworx: Ceramic Arts Learning Center. 

Eugenia Yoon
​Instagram: @lemonlurkrr

Artist Bio
Eugenia Yoon is an illustrator from London, Ontario. After graduating from the H.B. BealArt program with a specialization in illustration and ceramics, she has continued her education and is currently working towards an HBA of Illustration at Sheridan College.
Eugenia works primarily as a digital painter, but her pieces–digital, traditional, or ceramic–can all be found featuring the same play with bright contrasting colours and sharp linework.​ Her pieces have been shown in H.B. Beal’s Year End Show exhibitions, and in digital/physical zines alongside other artists and writers she has connected with through online communities. Eugenia shares sketches, process work, finished pieces, and anything else she finds neat, on her Instagram, @lemonlurkrr.

Mallory Butlin
​Instagram: @_justa_bunch_of_eggs_

Artist Bio
Mallory Butlin is an artist based in Komoka, Ontario. they graduated from the Bealart specialist program, focused on ceramics and expanded media. they are currently teaching and creating at Clayworx! their work spans from organic sculptural forms, to illustrative functional pieces. they find most of their inspiration from the nature around them, as well as through various historical influences. many of their current creations are representative of the diversity of insect life and nature in Ontario.

Tatiana Argueta Garcia

Artist Bio
​Tatiana Argueta Garcia was born in El Salvador and immigrated to Canada in her youth. First exploring with acrylic, Tatiana began by creating paintings and multimedia sculptures, which further blossomed into a love for ceramics as a medium. Having graduated from Sheridan College’s Craft and Design, with a specialty in ceramics, she furthers her scope of work by taking inspiration from nature and floriography, the language of flowers. Her work aims to show how simple objects can hold meaning and significance, transcribing each flower's translated meaning into clay vessels, using surface and form to bring a voice to a silent and forgotten language. 
Over the past few years, Tatiana’s pieces have been displayed at the Cambridge Butterfly Observatory and the Gardiner Museum.
​

Veronica Sarata
Instagram: @sarata_ceramics

Artist Bio
​Veronica Sarata is a first-generation Polish-Canadian born and raised in London, Ontario. Veronica started working with the ceramic medium in 2015, but her interest began well before that; as a child, she would make small-scale sculptures out of air-dry clay or plasticine. Veronica recently graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Craft and Design, specializing in ceramics at Sheridan College. Previously, she attended H.B Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario and finished their two-year arts program. During this time, one of her sculptures was featured on Carole Epp’s website, “Musing about Mud” to advertise the school’s year-end show. She has also been featured on the Gardiner Museum’s online exhibition for their International Ceramic Art Fair as part of their next generation of ceramic artists, and has shown her work alongside other graduates from her program at Craft Ontario for their show “Continuum”. Veronica’s work showcases contained emotion, it revolves around narratives of unjust situations where the subjects demonstrate a lack of control. Using animals as symbolism for relationships between people, themselves, and the forces that drive our emotions.
Artist Statement
My work showcases contained emotion, it revolves around narratives of unfair situations where the subjects demonstrate a lack of control. I use animals as symbolism for relationships between people, themselves, and the forces that drive our emotions. The subjects I use are often put in less-than-ideal scenarios. The narrative put in place is personal, and yet I hope that those who interact with these pieces understand the main themes.

​Madelyn Fenton

Artist Bio
​Madelyn Fenton is a ceramics and illustration artist from London Ontario. Her work is inspired by nature-based themes and feelings of nostalgia that are displayed through colour and subject matter. Madelyn graduated from Hb Beal Secondary School and specialized in painting and illustration and is currently enrolled in Fleming College in Haliburton to get her certificate in ceramics. Madelyn also works at Clayworx as a summer student assisting in teaching children’s clay camps. She hopes to continue her journey in clay and explore all it has to offer. ​

​Sam Van Geel

Artist Bio
​Sam Van Geel is a London based artist. Recently graduated from H.B Beal S.S and spent 4 years in the Beal Art program. Sam is inspired by the artists in their life and is active in the local art community. Sam works in a variety of media including acrylic paint, clay and textiles. They have participated in the Beal Art year end show and the 2025 silent auction for the TVDSB fundraiser. This fall Sam will be going to Fleming College at the Haliburton campus studying fabric arts, glass blowing, ceramics and blacksmithing. 

​Christina Martin-Smith

Artist Bio
​Christina Martin-Smith is a London based artist. She has taken classes at Clayworx for the past 10 years and studied at Bealart. She is now in her third year at Western University. Her work is based on functionality. She is inspired by bright colours and loves bringing elements of nature into her pieces. ​

Previous shows: 

Thank you to everyone who came & supported our Emerging Artist!
​
Clayworx: Emerging
August 15th - October 21st 2024

CLAYWORX: CERAMIC ARTS LEARNING CENTRE
FOrmerly LONDON POTTERS GUILD AND LONDON CLAY ART CENTRE 
Visit Us​
​664 Dundas Street
London, ON  N5W 2Y8  CANADA
​Retail Store Hours
Thursday to Saturday: 11am-5pm

Class/Workshop Hours
Sunday to Saturday: as scheduled
Office Hours
Monday to Friday: 12pm-5pm
Saturday & Sunday: ​as scheduled
​
​​519-434-1664 
Picture
Picture
Copyright © 2023
Clayworx is registered Canadian charity (886676790 RR0001)