Exhibitions
2025
British Ceramics Biennale
Stoke-on-Trent, UK

London Design Festival
Mint Gallery
London, UK

Future Icons Selects
London, UK

Hastings Craft Weekend
Hastings, UK

Spring Tide
Mint Gallery London, UK

Folde
Pevensey, UK

Lut
Romanian Creative Week
Iasi, Romania

Peisaje Modular
Guadalajara, Mexico

2024
Embrace
Your true - Nature
Athens, Greece

Romanian Design Week
Bucharest, Romania

2023
Winter Exhibition
Thrown Contemporary
London, UK

Folde
Contemporary Ceramics
Observer Building
Hastings, UK

2022
Coastal Currents
Ceramics
Hastings, UK

Press & Publications
2025
Elle Decorations
UK

House&Garden
UK

WeTheCoolMagazine
US

Good Life Magazine
GR

2023
Ceramic Review
Emerging Artist
UK

About
(b. 1989) is a Romanian-born, UK-based artist and designer specializing in ceramic art. Growing up in post-communist Romania, Catalin experienced a time of creative tension: newfound freedoms allowed for artistic expression, but limited resources compelled artists to be inventive. This environment shaped his approach to art, fostering a spirit of experimentation and a deep appreciation for alternative processes

Catalin makes sculptural ceramic lamps and object installations inspired by the natural responses of raw clay to forces such as gravity. By bending, pulling, and stretching the material, he captures the fluidity and movement of clay, transforming it into stone-like finished forms. His work echoes the organic distortions found in nature, drawing from carved hills, wind-bent trees, and the dynamic forces that shape the natural world. Through his process, he seeks to incorporate hints of “making”, allowing the final piece to reveal traces of its creation.

As a self-taught ceramicist, Catalin approaches clay as a medium for discovery, embracing trial and error to develop innovative techniques that achieve the forms he imagines. His background in architecture adds a complementary focus on structure and design, enabling him to create works that balance artistic expression with functional purpose.

Since moving to the UK in 2014, Catalin’s work has reflected his evolving cultural and creative journey. Over the past year, his pieces have been exhibited internationally, including shows in London, Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week, Bucharest, Athens and Guadalajara, Mexico. These exhibitions highlight the distinctiveness of his practice, which continues to explore clay’s transformative possibilities as a medium for the design narrative.