Recent Exhibitions include; Collect Art Fair, London (2023), Solo show at CERCO - International Contemporary Ceramics Festival, Zaragoza, Spain (2022), Post Creaciones - Associació Ceramistes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (2022), International Ceramic Triennial Art Andenne, Belgium (2022), Teruel Museum, Spain (2022), International Ceramics Biennial of Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain (2021), Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition (2020), and Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition (2020). Prizes and awards include: Brookfield Properties Craft Award, shortlist (2023), Wells Art Contemporary Awards shortlist (2019), and a Crafts Design Award nomination (2017). Residencies include Artist in Residence at La Rajoleta Ceramic Museums, Barcelona (2024), and Bernard Leach Residency, St Ives, Cornwall (2020).
Anne-Laure Cano’s practice is led by material, process and meaning. She explores the properties of clay through a process of breaking and reassembling; twisting, pulling and mixing clays with eclectic components. Her abstract sculptures create intrigue through a combination of familiar details with unexpected elements. A key theme of her recent series ‘Ussade’ is reinvention, adaptation and the relationship between destruction and creation. The lines of stress, cracks and distortion of the pieces are the result of pushing the material to its limits, as well as the unanticipated results from firings. These stresses and fractures illustrate the duality between fragility and resilience.
Anne-Laure Cano was the winner of the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize 2023.