In 1938, Bob completed his Pottery MA at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2007, The R.J.Washington Bursary was established to support current MA graduates in their future careers.
The Washington Foundation UK are pleased to announce the R.J.Washington Bursary 2024 recipient is Jietong Xu.
Jietong Xu
Jietong Xu is a Ceramics and Glass, Royal College of Art (RCA) graduate. She previously earned a degree in Illustration and Visual Media from UAL LCC, where she developed a passion for integrating illustration with diverse materials. Her work focuses on transforming imagined worlds into tangible realities, using glass as her primary medium and flames as her brush.
Her work explores object diasporas, within the ceramic lineage of the low-fired, coiled terracotta pot from West Africa. Drawing on craft and historical narratives, she disrupts and activates form and surface as a means of storytelling and embodied practice. Her vividly painted and glazed surfaces, textured by hand, tool and organic inclusions evoke labour, landscape and the body in expression and form.
