Zoë Andrews: Lessons in Spring

13 Apr-17 Apr 2026

Overview

Winner of the Christie’s Drawing Award 2026, Drawing Year Alumna Zoë Andrews, presents a solo exhibition of ceramics, inspired by the 'Homeric Hymn to Demeter', exploring loss and renewal through processes of material transformation.

Location: Christie's, London

'Lessons in Spring' presents new work by Zoë Andrews, recipient of the Christie’s Drawing Award 2026. Returning to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the exhibition features bowls, lanterns and tile arrangements through which Andrews explores motifs of change and renewal as material transformation.

Responding to the Greek and Roman collections at the British Museum, alongside digital archives from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, Andrews revisits the allegoric myth of Demeter and Persephone. The enduring themes of seasonal rhythms and humanity’s experience of loss are reimagined through an exploration of drawing in ceramics.

Working with paper ash and copper, Andrews embraces chance and transformation in her process. Earlier drawings are torn and shredded to make paper clay or burnt to develop glaze. Porcelain is formed so thin that drawings migrate from the outside in, making translucency and light integral to the work.

The exhibition traces how this myth travels from antiquity to the present, with fragments acting as custodians of time. As Andrews reflects, ‘Slow and ever evolving, ceramics remain a technology that quietly witnesses a world unmoored.’

This exhibition and award is supported by Christie's