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View Image Gallery Christine Gittins(Full member)

Web: www.christinegittins.com  

Artist's Statement

South African born and educated, Christine Gittins settled in Wales in 1994 where she is continuing a career as a studio potter. Although a trained graphic artist, her involvement with clay has occupied her life since 1982 when she first started evening classes in pottery.

Her pots are wheel thrown in earthenware, finely turned and burnished to a smooth finish. Forms are based on classical shapes and for surface decoration she relies on the effects of various firing techniques to produce unpredictable results that are a constant challenge and source of excitement.

For her most recent work she uses a white body that lends itself to showing the subtle surface colours obtained by fuming the work in a saggar containing salt, copper and sawdust.

Her work is low-fired to keep the clay surface slightly porous to be able to absorb the effects of the treatment during the final firing.

Since moving to Britain, Christine has been selected as:
- a member of the Makers Guild in Wales and
- a member of the British Craft Potters Association.

She has participated in various group shows and had her first solo exhibition in Beaux Arts Gallery in Bath in September 1995 and another solo exhibition in 1998.
Christine participated in 'Made in Wales' with the Craft Forum Wales in Barcelona during 1995, and in Japan`s UK Festival during August 1998 in Oita City. Her work also featured in "In The Window" at the Contemporary Ceramics Gallery in London during September 1996.
She was represented at the exhibition of Welsh Ceramicists in Aberystwyth and also exhibited with the South Wales Potters at the Ceramic Millennium in Amsterdam in 1999. In the same year she was also a recipient of a grant from the Arts Council in Wales to further development of her work.

Apart from special exhibitions she sells through selected art and craft galleries throughout Britain and abroad as well as from the showroom attached to her studio in Llantrisant.

Current Work

Recent work concentrates on Saggar-firing, in an electric kiln, creating a reduction atmosphere, using sawdust together with salt and copper to fume the burnished surface of the clay. The thrown pieces are polished after the firing to bring out a subtle sheen on the surface.

Work generally available from:
Work can be obtained from the studio and the following Galleries:
St. Ives Ceramic Gallery, Cornwall
Printmakers Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
Contemporary Ceramics, Marshall Street, London
Beaux Arts, Bath
Montpellier, Stratford-on Avon
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
Hulbert & Bowie, Hay-on-Wye
Rope store Gallery, Stroud
Church House Designs, Congresbury
Glass House Gallery, Truro
Other galleries stock my work and I will be happy to advise callers of the nearest convenient gallery on request.

Other Information:
Throwing demonstrations, Raku firings and slide shows or talks for interested Groups can be arranged.

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Web-site: www.christinegittins.com

Availability: This profile is no longer been updated as of 03.07.

Last Updated: 2012-03-31

Work styles:

Raku
Earthenware
Thrown
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