Episode Details

You know that it's good to "get out and touch grass."

My guest today goes out to touch clay.

Contemporary ceramic artist Dimitria Barrows spent a decade working fulltime in the art industry — at Gagosian, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, among others — handling exhibitions, sales, and artists’ studios — a blast from the past — before returning to her own practice in 2024. Now Barrows makes ceramics, including functional sculptural vessels.

Based in Zug, Switzerland — known as Crypto Valley — Barrows creates handmade stoneware ceramics — vases and vessels exploring value formation in internet memes, crypto culture, economics, onchain dynamics. Barrows bridges the contemporary art scene with Bitcoin. Each artwork is unique, boldly glazed, and created with utility in mind — it mirrors how we assign (and verify) worth, a question she watched play out in blue-chip galleries and now watches play out onchain. Barrows’ artworks are NFC-chipped and onchain-registered; these conceptual ceramics exist as physical-digital twins.

Barrows graduated from Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) in Zurich with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2015. I find particularly attractive and when I saw her work in Prague and met her in person, I wanted to get her on the podcast.

Website: https://www.artasaconsequence.net

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Email: dimitria at artasaconsequence dot net