Yuliya Makliuk (b.1987) is a ceramic artist, activist, and author driven by a passion for addressing the pressing challenges of our time: environmental crises, social injustice, and war through her practice.
Makliuk is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of ceramic tradition, actively exploring sustainable approaches and innovative techniques in her studio, ‘Here & Now Pottery’. She has been awarded the Risktakers and the CEC Artslink International fellowships for her work in sustainability and arts organizing.
Selected Publications:
2024 ‘Clay Culture: Sustainable Steps’, Ceramics Monthly magazine
2023 ‘Potters Save the World: Learn to Make Sustainable Ceramics and Help Protect the Earth,’ author, self-published
2023 ‘The Sense of Clay in the Anthropocene’, Garland magazine
2023 ‘How Yuliya Makliuk tried to invent the world’s most sustainable pottery and what came out of it’, Ceramics Now magazine
2023 ‘How to Craft the Ultimate Eco-Friendly Mug’, Studio Potter magazine
2022 ‘A Greener Pottery: A Step-by-Step Guide to Sustainable Ceramic Studio Practice,’ author, self-published
2015 ‘Beautiful Trouble. Manual on Creative Activism’, Boyd and Mitchell. Radical theory and practice – Curator of the Russian edition, compiler, foreword
Selected public speech:
2024 Mingei Museum, USA
2024 Red Lodge Clay Center, USA
2024 Sustainable Ceramics Symposium, University of Montana, USA
2024 Making Change Conference: Sustainability & Ceramic Practice, The Leach Pottery
2023 The Green Makers Initiative, MAKESouthWest, ‘Can Potters Save the Earth?’
2023 The Ceramic Congress, ‘Environmentally Friendly Ceramics’
2021 NCECA Fall Symposium ‘Cultivating Community,’ lecture on sustainable practices in ceramics
Selected Projects:
2024 ‘Forest Clay’, charitable series of clay workshops with elements of nature-based art-therapy
2024 ‘Emotional Labor’, series of sculptures incorporating recycled ceramic shards
2024 ‘Potters Save the World Community’, hands-on sustainable education for potters
2023 ‘Saving the World as a Potter,’ webinar series on sustainable ceramics, the Risktakers Fellowship, Allianz Foundation and SUPERRR LAB
2022 ‘Ceramics for the soul,’ eco-art therapy, Ukrainian Culture Foundation
2022 ‘A Bowl for Everything,’ ceramic wartime diary
2022 ‘I Will Sprout with Flowers’, ephemeral memorial to those killed in Irpin
2021 ‘The Melting Point,’ series of vases dedicated to the UN Climate Change Conference
Cooperations:
2024 Art residency with Julia Galloway, Professor of ceramics, University of Montana, USA
2023 ‘Pottery 4 Peace in Ukraine’, charitable raffle with the Clay College, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
2022 ‘Fire it!’, residence and collective anagama firing, Gudenky’s, Zaymyshche, Ukraine
2022 Collection of artifacts of war for Tessa Grundon’s ‘Library of Lost Places Project,’ exhibition ‘Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters,’ The Gallatin Galleries, New York, USA
2022 ‘Host a Potter,’ an international network of ceramic studios providing shelter to Ukrainian refugees
2019 Internship at Anja Slapnicar Ceramics Studio, researching wild clays and glazes, Slovenia
Exhibitions:
2024 TseGlyna, collective ceramic arts exhibition, TseGlyna Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2024 Collective exhibition dedicated to the 2nd anniversary of de-occupation of Irpin, Lisova_3 artspace, Irpin, Ukraine
2023 ‘Brick by Brick’ collective exhibition, Andrei Sakharov Centre for Research on Democracy Development, Vilnius City Hall, Lithuania
2023 ‘Mini-Tseglyna’ collective exhibition, ArtAnkara, Turkey
2022 ‘Mini-Tseglyna’ collective exhibition, TseGlyna Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 ‘Fire Up!’ collective exhibition, Ukraine-Japan Culture Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Vasyl Krychevsky Second International Biennale of Artistic Ceramics, Opishne, Ukraine
2021 Ceramic Art Week, D. Hub Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 ‘Rock to Bowl’, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 ‘Where to next?’, contemporary eco-art exhibition, Izolyatsia, Kyiv, Ukraine
Education:
2016 Summer Pottery Academy, National Museum of Pottery, Opishne, Ukraine
2013 MA ‘Participation, Power and Social Change,’ University of Sussex, UK, Chevening Scholarship
2012 MS ‘Ecology and Environmental Protection,’ National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hereandnowpottery/
