Meet Illustrator And Ceramic Artist Mamen Morillas

For the third video in our ceramic series, the Spanish artist tells us about how she loves using ceramics to bring her illustrations to life.
Mamen Morillas trained as a graphic designer and illustrator in Malaga before moving to London. Since graduating, Morillas has published her drawings professionally, worked on editorial projects as well as commercial clients like Converse and exhibited her award-winning illustrations.

For the past couple of years she’s started to incorporate working with ceramics in her practice after taking courses at Turning Earth.
Successfully translating her distinctive drawing style into clay forms, Morillas liked to see how the characters she created on paper could come alive as ceramic objects such as her sculpture installation, Sleeping Trees (2017).

Discover other ceramic artists like Lily Permain and Tom Kemp who also work out of Turning Earth‘s East London studio.

About the author

Freire Barnes

Art & Design Editor

Born in the heart of London, Freire's been surrounded by art since childhood. From being mesmerised by Fra Angelico's frescos in Florence to experiencing Dali's Mae West room in Caduceus, Freire's extensive travels instilled a love of the arts. After studying painting she worked for David Bowie's, Bowieart and began to write for the BBC, Bon and Dazed &amp Confused. She curated the Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award and was one of the first cohort to graduate from the Royal College of Art's Critical Writing in Art &amp Design MA. When not at an art opening, she's excited to bring her global art discoveries to the Culture Trip's readers.