Adele Howitt

Adele Howitt is an artist predominately working with clay.  Her work has long been associated with innovation, site specificity, creative engagement and place making within the public realm on large – scale projects.

Adele’s craft is linked to the 18th century pottery industries of England. Adele began her career making ceramics for public realm artworks, and has a portfolio of architectural ceramics and art, within outside and inside spaces across the North of England.

Collaboration with a landscape architect and a residency in Seville, Spain, to research the concept of a ‘mosaic landscape’ led Adele to further investigations using microscopes. Experimentation with form is important to her, with her ultimate objective to hold the movement and flow of the environment. The notion of a ‘living landscape’ and climate change is one of the key issues that Adele explores.

The two larger new pieces Adele is presenting at Collect concentrate on the imagined movement of pollen grains and the minute world inside the grain.  The third piece is a remembrance to the celandine of spring, something that we quickly forget, only to embrace the season’s arrival again.