Collection: Donham Buratti Jesse

(Turin 1992)

Jesse Donham-Buratti is a ceramist and agroecologist who works with wild materials: she collects small amounts of clay while hiking, swimming, and in farmland, tests it numerous times, and adds rocks and minerals to recreate a sort of landscape in each piece.
She has lived her whole life between two places and two languages, between Italy and California and after a three-year degree in Environmental and Political Sciences she moved to Melbourne, Australia. Here she began to experiment with clay in a self-taught way, first working on the wheel and then dedicating herself to manual techniques. She discovered and deepened the practice of “wild clay” by training with true pillars of this approach, such as Nina Salsotto Cassina, Anja Slapnicar and Studio Alluvium.