Although art has been a part of Júlia Néma's life since childhood, she studied humanities after graduating from high school. It was then that it became clear to her that she wanted something literally tangible as a profession: she realised that those were always the most memorable periods of her life when she was creating something, and that if she was not creating, the lack of artistic activity was almost painful for her. She obtained a degree in ceramic design and then a doctorate in 2012, since then she has also been active as a university lecturer. To this day, she loves every aspect of her work: from wedging (or even mining) the clay to continuously feeding the kiln with wood. Although she has been working with ceramics since the early 1990s and launched her own brand in 2010, the real breakthrough in her career came in 2012: she built her own wood-fired kiln with her master, Frederick L. Olsen. Today, she cultivates and creates autonomous works and architectural ceramics too, but her best-known pieces are her wood-fired bowls and plates made for the best restaurants in Budapest: Olimpia, Babel, Salt and Laurel.
Júlia Néma
