Award films 2025 – Fernando Casasempere

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Award is the British Ceramics Biennial’s headline exhibition. It invites ten selected artists to tread new ground, use the momentum of the exhibition to focus or make a step change in their practice or to present work in ways it hasn’t previously been experienced.

About the Award films

Each film introduces the Award artists and shares how, where and why they make their work. Created by acclaimed filmmakers Lucy and Cameron of Elastic Pie Films, they reveal clay to be a rich material for storytelling, experimentation, playfulness, risk-taking and activism.

Fernando Casasempere is part of the Award exhibition at Spode Works, open daily 10am-4pm from 6 September – 19 October 2025.

About the artist

Through a fascination with the imprint left by humans on the earth, Fernando Casasempere draws on archaeology, geology, landscape and architecture to explore urgent global ecological and social concerns through the lens of his native Chile.

For Award 2025, Fernando will present an installation of boxes housing all the “waste” he’s kept in an effort to minimise his environmental footprint. From sculptures shattered in the kiln to accidentally broken pieces, he will repurpose and install these remnants, transcending them into new artworks documenting Fernando’s creative journey.

See more of Fernando’s work.

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