🎨 Laura Wöllner Laura is an artist based in Portsmouth, UK, she has a BA in Animation from the University of Portsmouth and she has a growing love for ceramics. Clay as a medium is so incredibly tactile and versatile; and exposing it to upwards of 1000°C in the kiln means you can never be 100% sure exactly how your creations will turn out. She is passionate about conservation, sustainability, and Earth’s weird and wonderful creatures, Laura champions the underdogs of the natural world: organisms far from the “charismatic megafauna,” yet no less beautiful and fascinating. With a special admiration for the deep sea, she believes its strange, complex, and hidden life deserves the spotlight - And that it’s worth protecting. 🐚💙 🔬 Dr. Emanuel Pereira Emanuel is a deep-sea researcher from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s working at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. His PhD thesis focused on the taxonomy, systematics, and biogeography of deep-sea isopod crustaceans. They are among the most bizarre animals and are commonly found in association with cold-water hard corals. He recently joined the renowned expedition “Underwater Oases of the Mar del Plata Canyon: Talud Continental IV” aboard the RV Falkor, further deepening his exploration of one of Earth’s least-known ecosystems. He is driven by a lifelong passion for marine biology and has been interested in crustaceans after knowing their diversity biology and ecology. Emanuel hopes to raise visibility for deep-sea fauna and demonstrating the importance of one of the least known habitats in the world. 🌍🦐
🤝 Together Together, Laura and Emanuel aim to reveal the deep sea not as bleak or lifeless, but as a bustling, vibrant community. Their collaboration centers on a multi-layered, three-dimensional ceramic ceramic sculpture of a coral, populated with a selection of the typical fauna that call these corals home — from permanent residents to fleeting visitors. By restoring form, color, and presence to species we rarely see alive, they hope to bring these hidden creatures closer to viewers and showcase the deep sea’s true beauty, complexity, and vitality. This photo shows their first ceramic artwork: A beautiful clay cup with a brittle star coiling around the cup and the ear. It has not been in the kiln yet, so it still has the natural gray color
The same cup from the last picture, but out of the kiln. The brittle star now has a beautiful reddish brown color
A detail from the same artwork, to show the beautiful texture of the brittle star. This photo also shows the wonderful colors on the coiling arms
🌊 Associate Fauna ✨
An ArtSea Matchmaking team where ceramics, curiosity, and deep-sea discovery come together.
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