Rose Schmits is a Dutch ceramics artist working in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her role in the

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reality series ''

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'' on which she was the kiln and firing technician. Schmits is from

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and moved to the UK to study at the

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. She won the Undergraduate Prize awarded by the Artists' Collecting Society in 2018. Schmits joined the show in 2021 and left in 2024, ahead of the eighth season of the show. Schmits bases her work on the

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pottery technique. Her work includes: * We Live in a Society Collection * Crawler Pot Collection * Trans Forms Collection * Creature from the Delft Canal * Galatea’s C***

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