BCB 2025 Artist Talks: Leah Jensen
It was Lost in the Move by Leah Jensen
This artwork explores the anxieties of housing insecurity. An unsettling collection of terracotta artefacts associated with the moving process draws upon Leah’s experience in 21 different living situations whilst also considering the larger impact that housing shortage has on society.
Artist Talks
During the 2025 British Ceramic Biennial, visitors had the chance to meet and hear from some of the talented artists exhibiting. The Artist Talks provide a unique insight into the work and careers of some of the artists and the work they have created especially for the 2025 Biennial.
About the Artist
Leah Jensen is a multidisciplinary artist-maker born in Cornwall, 1990.
Fortunate to be raised in a creative family, her education in art and making began in childhood, learning both the creative and practical applications of a broad range of materials.
In 2010 Leah began her Degree in Contemporary Crafts at Falmouth University, where she would focus on ceramics. Here she began developing a method that has since evolved to become a signature style. This process involves an image mapping technique that enables her to carve intricate geometric interpretations of Renaissance paintings into ceramic pots. The result is a work of vivid, immaculate detail as if to appear digitally manufactured, a style which Jensen playfully describes as ‘anti-digital’.
Today, Leah lives and works in London, continuing to carve ceramic vessels whilst working on a number of other projects.