Olla Ceramics x Golden Earth Studio
Art for the Anthropocene.
Bridging the gap between artists and the construction industry in pursuit of circularity.
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In 2025 Golden Earth Studio expands to Southern California with Olla Ceramics.
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View the Golden Earth webpage.
First Southern California Collection Event. Clairemont, San Diego, January 5th, 2025.
Connecting Industries
Golden Earth Studio strives to make construction waste streams accessible
for creative visionaries. Their actions promote conversations surrounding sustainable development and circular economy principles through the process of waste transformation.
Breaking Ground
The focus is to make by-products from construction sites accessible. Replacing
typical commercial clay bodies that may be made from quarried or mined minerals, imported from various locations. Golden Earth Studio’s actions can reduce the CO2 associated with the transportation of waste and acquisition of virgin raw materials, preserve our natural resources, and reduce the volume of waste contributing to landfills.
Highlighting Artists
Golden Earth Studio mission extends to supporting artists to incorporate circular
practices and provide a platform for their artwork to make their way into interiors through their online gallery.
Image: Chess set by artist Jacob Chan.
Material Collections and Workshops hosted by Sara Howard and Gabriel Lau in London, UK.
Our Team
Sara Howard and Gabriel Lau
Founders
Golden Earth Studio was established by Sara Howard, a ceramicist and sustainable materials developer, and Gabriel Lau, founder of Golden Earth Developments. The partnership began at a London ceramic atelier, where shared challenges in working with the others industry formed a mutual ambition for creating systemic change and mitigate the ecological impact of waste.
Ariana Kier
US Representative
Ariana Kier is a soil cataloguist and ceramicist based in San Diego, California who is fostering the expansion of Golden Earth Studio's sustainability initiative to North America.
Connecting artists, architects and designers with construction industries to give second life to displaced materials and begin to close the waste stream in building development.
Wild Clay Foraging Workshops, Southern California, 2022-2024