Oriel Zinaburg is a Ceramic artist based in East London. He initially trained as an architect before practicing ceramics in 2015. Inspired by nature, art history and clay materials, he began to develop his own unique style and approach to ceramics and opened his own studio in 2020. Working in series, his work commands a charged expression of the surreal and absurd in order to represent an emotional state that one could be in.  

Oriel Zinaburg’s abstract sculptural pieces explore the relationship between what is logically and mathematically constructed and the fluidity of emotion. Creating tension between control and chance, his work gives no clear answer and leaves the viewer feeling distended by its beautiful mystery. Inspired by landscape, geology and art, he is repeatedly looking for a response to the traditional vessel form based on the Japanese aesthetic of beauty in imperfection and irregularity.

In order to keep the work open-ended, Oriel zinabburg uses a collage-like technique, putting the pieces together through intuition and serendipity. Whilst the clay is still soft he tears, folds and distorts it. The materiality of the clay dictates the way in which the folds take shape. Each passing moment of creation informs the next, as do the material's intrinsic properties and the forces to which it is subject. Every object is the result of unique and specific responses in the evolution of the individual form.