Ellie Heath is a ceramic artist and sculptor based in Newport, Rhode Island. She is currently attending Salve Regina University, on track to graduate in May of 2025 with a BA in Studio art concentrating in Ceramics. Heath has been featured in many shows at the university, such as the Best of Salve Students shows in 2022 where she received Best in Show, 2023 Where she received Best in Ceramics, and 2024 where she received an honorable mention. She has also taken part in the juried 2023 College Show at the Providence art Club. After school, she has the intention of receiving her Masters of Arts in Teaching to teach high school art.
My work explores my personal experiences with physical and mental health as well as interpersonal relationships. The unique movement of each abstracted form tells my own personal story, while allowing the viewer to relate their own person stories to the piece. I also encourage play and reflection of childhood through tactile experience, as I tend to explore the changes in perspective that occur during growing up.
I interact with my pieces the same way I encourage the viewer to, through play. Whatever emotion that I am feeling in the moment can be seen reflected in the way I work. I typically go into a piece with little idea of what is going to happen. The meaning comes as the clay moves in its own way, and what emotions my personal reflections create.