Victoria Mock Pollock

Bio

Victoria Mock Pollock is a ceramic artist who enjoys creating functional pottery and challenging herself with new forms, techniques and glazes. While she didn’t receive a formal art degree, she discovered clay in high school and completed 3D design and ceramic courses at the University of Texas Brownsville in 2009. After a long break from the arts to focus on her career in IT, Victoria rekindled her love of ceramics in 2018 while taking a class at the Ankeny Art Center in Ankeny, Iowa. Since then she has participated in several member shows at the Ankeny Art Center and has had work featured in the Iowa State Fair. She currently creates her work out of her basement studio in Des Moines and studio space at Ankeny Art Center.

Artist Statement

Most of my work is made with its final home in mind. As a hobby potter, I’m able to spend a good deal of my focus on the wants of friends and family. Every artist struggles with finding inspiration from time to time, and finding that inspiration through people you know is incredibly rewarding, particularly when it leads to trying something new. Through the years, all of those new things are collected, sorted, saved, and discarded to become the combination of techniques, styles, and glazes that define me as a creator. 

This work represents a piece of that process. A friend’s request for a garlic keeper turned to an experiment with jars, then to a foray into methods for piercing, and finished with glazes used in a prior project that I knew would complement the flowing texture. Ceramics is a bottomless well of potential, and I’m excited to see what I’m challenged with next.

Exhibitions