Rosie Williams

Graduating last year from the Design Crafts course at De Monfort University, Rosie Williams' Plastic Species are imagined ceramic “fossils of the future,” where sea creatures are embedded with deadly streaks of plastic. It's a highly original concept, with strong emotional impact, and her "specimens" are carefully annotated - "see here a large fossilised fish strangled by fishing line and tangled trash...an example of how ghost fishing equipment lost at sea affects the ocean's marine life"