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Tel: 07985 553 711 Email:
Artists Statement
I am a ceramic artist creating hand thrown functional and decorative ware for the home. I work in white stoneware and porcelain. I am currently developing through three form ideas. One is a plate / bowl form that it thrown and altered. I am inspired along this form by the precision of the product of the surrounding industry yet I wish to maintain the energy if the throwing process within the piece. Platters and bowls: Bowls and Ginger Jars among other forms that I am currently making are a more domestic standard. With these simple forms I am exploring my interest in glaze and the reactions of glazes as they are overlapped over one another. The third form sequence I am working on are freely thrown and altered cylinders with a simple glaze such as tenmoku with dolomite or a plain green celadon. These forms are concentrating on the energy of throwing a simple strong form to display the distortions of quick strong throwing without interruption.
Current work
Gas fired reduction stoneware and porcelain domestic use and display pieces Availability of current work: Technical InformationGas kiln propane fired to 1280 in reduction, tenmoku's, celadons, copper reds, kakis History and Education
Lady Manners School - graduated 2000 Staffordshire University - graduated 2007
Exhibitions and Events
• Wirksworth Festival , 2003, 2004 • Japanese commission Sochou pots • Chatterley Whitfield commission installation • Exhibiting Haddon Hall • Exhibiting Ridgeway Gallery • Exhibiting Bessemer Gallery • Exhibiting St John’s Street Gallery • Exhibiting Hanley Potteries Museum • Exhibiting Gladstone Pottery Museum • Exhibiting Burslem Art • Work in homes throughout UK and Miyazaki • Featured in Derbyshire Life, Christmas gift Guide 2008 • Exhibiting Created Gallery, Chesterfield • Exhibiting Longdale Craft Centre • Exhibiting Focus Gallery Nottingham • Exhibiting Twenty Twenty gallery • Demonstrator for Burslem Arts 2009 • Demonstrator for the British Ceramics Confederation 2009 • Private commission 12 crock pots • Private commission 18” lamp base • Exhibited Wirksworth Festival 2009 • B arts commission 250 vases for clay British ceramics biennial 2009 • Great Peak District Fair 2009 • Exhibition coordinator and exhibitor at British ceramics biennial 2009
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Contact DetailsStudio Address: Unit H, Potclays, Brickkiln Lane, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, ST4 7BP.View in Google Maps Telephone: 07985 553 711 Email: Availability: Usually every day of the week best to phone first and on arrival and I will come and find you Other Information: Classes held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, available for lectures and demonstrations Joined on: 2009-11-18 |
