Artist Biography Julia Schuster 
 
 
Julia Schuster (b. 1989 Vienna, Austria) holds an MA in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art in London (2016) and has completed a BA (hons) degree in Design from the Faculty of Design & Arts, Free University Bolzano-Bozen in Italy (2013).  Her work has been in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally, which include the European Ceramics Context, Denmark, the British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent, Ceramics and its Dimensions: Shaping the Future touring show (Berlin, Ljubljana and Prague) and Photo Kathmandu Festival, Nepal. Most recently in 2020 she exhibited at Palinsesti in Italy.  Residencies include the studio of the onggi potter and artist Master Hyangjong Oh, Hwasun, South Korea, Marlborough College, United Kingdom, Mixed-media residency Photo Kathmandu, Nepal and the Glass & Ceramics School KADK, Bornholm, Denmark.  She is a recipient of the Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Travel Grant, the Worshipful Company of  Tin Plate Workers Ceramics Prize and the Future Lights in Ceramics Award.  Collections include various private collectors, Marlborough College in England and JEP University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.  
 
Schuster’s work in a number of very different cultural settings and countries has turned “to go on walz” into a key methodology of her practice. “To walz” namely describes a tradition from medieval Germany where a craftsperson would travel around as a “journeyman” to learn from different workshops and master craftspeople. To her “to go on walz” is a contemporary reinterpretation of both learning from and contributing to various communities.  
 
Currently she is based in Vienna and Southwest Sweden, where she will hold her first Swedish solo show in autumn 2020.