Eva Masterman graduated from Kingston University in 2008 with a First Class Honours BA in Fine Art, and completed her MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art in 2016. She has exhibited widely across the U.K. and abroad, including two solo-shows at the William Bennington Gallery, London. She was the recipient of the 2016 Anthology Art Prize at the Charlie Smith Gallery, and the Royal British Society of Sculptors 2016 Bursary Award. She was selected for a six week exchange residency between the Camden Arts Centre, London and Arts Initiative Tokyo, Japan in Spring 2017. In 2016, she founded a social outreach art collective, Collective Matter, which was selected for the 2016 Tate Exchange Program, exploring clay as a creative learning tool. Eva also writes for the online journal Cfile, and also teaches at both University of Westminster and the Camden Art Centre.
Investigation into material and process led practices through cross-disciplinary workshops, seminars and writing, predicates her art-work. This dual approach of direct research into the boundaries and preconceptions of the visual arts, coupled with her own artistic practice, allows her to create a critical discourse that surrounds her own sculptural territory; one that sits firmly in the middle of the ‘expanded field’ of inter-disciplinary, material-specific making and fine art sculpture.
Using clay as a primary material language, the studio becomes a site of reflexive and subjective making. Through attention to the generative tendencies and tensions between the private and performative nature of studio practice, Eva explores the territory of risk and the place of migration between state and thought. The development of an object-orientated ontology creates an intimate relationship between object, environment and maker, where repeated actions and forms deconstruct the in-between space of life, the body and art.