Erum Aamir is a Manchester-based ceramic artist whose porcelain sculptures draw inspiration from the microscopic architectures of plant life. Her background in Physics has allowed her practice to bridge the poetic and scientific, revealing the hidden structures that shape the natural world.
Inspired by her research at the Herbarium of Manchester Museum, Erum’s work incorporates the vast and intricate encounters found in nature with imagination. Working exclusively in porcelain, Aamir embraces intuition in her making process whereby repetition and rhythm echoes the organic cycles of growth, decay and renewal. Through this process, her sculptures capture the quiet tension between fragility and strength, inviting viewers to rediscover wonder in the minute and sense the vastness contained within nature’s smallest forms.
Erum holds a BA (Hons) in Three-Dimensional Design from Manchester Metropolitan University, a BEd in General Sciences from The University of Punjab, a MSc in Physics from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from The University of Punjab.