Kenza is a Norwich-based ceramic artist best known for her practice of destructive pottery, a process that transforms traditional ceramics through acts of controlled violence. Working with firearms and other destructive methods, she challenges conventional ideas of craftsmanship, beauty and permanence, allowing chance and impact to become active collaborators in the making of each work.
Rather than viewing destruction as an endpoint, Kenza treats it as an essential stage of creation. By shooting, hitting and manipulating ceramic forms, she embraces unpredictability, creating pieces that are impossible to replicate and each unique. The contrast of the fragile nature of ceramics and the brutality of her process gives works that are both visually striking and conceptually compelling. For Kenza, the act of making is as significant as the finished object, with each piece bearing the physical evidence of its own creation.
Her practice encompasses several ongoing bodies of work, including the Shot Series, Hit Series and Flop Series, each exploring different forms of impact, fracture and transformation. Her first Shot Vase was exhibited in Mutiny in Colour (2023) alongside works by Banksy, KAWS, Damien Hirst, Pure Evil and Tracey Emin. In 2024, her work was the focus of Wounded, a solo exhibition charting nine years of developing her distinctive destructive pottery practice. Whilst more recently she has featured in several group shows in the gallery and been selected for the curators walls at the Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead Heath