Jacqui Ramrayka is a British-Guyanese ceramicist whose practice explores identity, home and belonging through her experience of Indo-Caribbean diasporic culture. She understands this identity as layered and hybrid, shaped by migration, inherited traditions and cultural exchange. Her work considers how objects can carry these histories and experiences, particularly through surfaces and forms marked by residue, erosion, fracture and repair.

‘My work is led by material experimentation and by a willingness to let clay behave in unexpected ways. I use clay and mixed media to make work that invites conversation—between materials, objects, histories and people. Clay is both a practical material and a way of thinking: it allows me to respond, revise, repeat and build meaning over time. I’m particularly interested in what is left behind: fragments, failed pieces, dust, excess material and traces of use or making. These elements are not incidental to the work; they often become its starting point. Through collecting, collating and repeated acts of making, I explore clay as a material that can be transformed, broken apart and reworked. This process reflects my interest in identity and belonging as things that are continually formed through accumulation, change and connection.’