ALICE TRESCARTE

Alice Trescarte is a French ceramicist who began her practice in 2016, drawn to clay’s scope for experimentation. She approaches her field as a place for both material and technical exploration. Influences oscillate between the formal visual language of decorative arts and more primitive, brutalist forms that arise in her works. Trescarte gravitates towards the interplay between spontaneity and materiality, shaping expressive, anthropomorphic figures—evocations of totems and golems—that once fired, take the form of stone.

Trescarte conjures the ruins and granite riverbeds of the Cévennes, the Southern region where she grew up, in each of her pieces. It is from this landscape that she now sources the schist stone used in her ash glazes, a distinctly rich surface texture emerging.

For Collection 16, Ark Kollekt presents five lidded stoneware boxes, finished with various wood ash glazes.

Portrait courtesy of Mikael Fakhri.