Forced to recently flee their home in Ukraine and relocate to the Netherlands, Olesya and Andriy Voznicki have restarted their practice in vicinity to Amsterdam and been supported by Mia Karlova Galerie to create a new series of ceramic pieces using locally-sourced materials. Their pieces – which combine wood, clay and coal – demonstrate our innate desire to form deep connections with the natural world and the materials that surround us.

Voznicki explains: “Our practice is very much rooted in the environment in which we find ourselves at any given moment in our lives. When we arrived in Amsterdam, we visited a salvage market and found a myriad of old materials that formed the basis of our new pieces. There’s something truly magical about transforming elements that were once utilitarian into unexpected, tactile objects.’