2025; Ioana Tămaş: winner Delft Ceramics Days 2024 Terra Delft
2024; winner Delft Ceramic Days
“My work represents my personal research into human behavior and psychology. In my work I explore femininity as identity and symbol, but there is also a tendency towards the androgynous. I try to create images and forms of life that show both vulnerability and strength. What stands out in most of my sculptures are the pointed legs that I use to suggest roots, a symbol of leaning towards something, continued growth or a search for stability.” Tămaş's work is constructed and decorated by hand. Characteristic is the use of unique lithographic decorations of her own design.
Tămaş was born in 1988, in Cluj, Romania. Here she started her study in ceramics, at the Art College, age fourteen. After college she studied at the University of Art and Design, Cluj, where she received her Bachelors and Master's Degrees in ceramics. During her study she undertook two internships abroad, one in Belgium, Liege and one in Turkey, Eskisehir. This helped her broaden her perspective in art and her future as an artist. After graduation from the university in Cluj, she moved to Eindhoven, The Netherlands. There she worked in a shared studio open for artists, focusing on developing her work and sharing her experience as ceramic artist. In 2022 she opened her own studio where she is further experimenting and developing her art. Ioana creates work for exhibitions and art events in the country and abroad.
