Really happy to see my first Ceramic Review article published this month. Thank you Alex McErlain for interviewing me in Fireworks Clay Studios last year for this profile article. It describes my journey from jewellery to ceramics, how my practice has developed over the years and my plans for future projects.
Amulet
30x28x32cm, 2016, porcelain, silk, steel, gold leaf (Photography Christopher Stock)
3rd August - 3rd December
Coin weights shining under a rock in a river. Once nestled inside a woven glove. Placed in speed, the textile rots, is washed away. The metal remains. Held by gravity and the memory of a net. Waiting to be found. Given new contexts, new values, new stories, new meanings. What do we lose and what do we find over time as contexts shift and owners change.
‘Hoard’ actively explores our relationship with objects and how we read them as they knit together with our own personal experiences and narratives. These lost contexts and ambiguous groupings offer the potential for poetic forms to emerge.
I'll be visiting the space throughout the exhibition period to re-group and re-assemble the forms, blending further elements and materials to offer a series of possible final readings.
Visitors are invited to create their own versions of these artefacts in the gallery space to add to an ever growing public hoard of offerings.
Hothouse 2017 - Spot the Talent
12 August – 23 September / Private View: 11 August, 6-8pm
New Ashgate Gallery showcases the work of 12 current Crafts Council's Hothouse Alumni. I'll be showing a range of both table and wall based works.
'Bringing together 17 practitioners from the fields of design, jewellery, ceramics, metalwork and sculpture Ambiguous Implements presents a collection of contemporary works that playfully reconsider the familiar objects of our day to day domestic life'.
Ambiguous Implements has been curated by Laura Mansfield in collaboration with Rachael Colley and Nuala Clooney.
This touring exhibition will open at Bl_nk Space Gallery, Roco on Thursday 6th July 2017 6–9pm, and continues until Saturday 15th July. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11am–6pm.
Delighted to have been selected as a finalist for the ICF Potclays Emerging Maker Award at this year's International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth. I'll be exhibiting my work at the event (30th June -2nd July).
I'm showing work in the European touring exhibition 'Shaping the Future' opening next at the Millennium Court Arts Centre (PV Friday 23 June, 7-9pm) continuing from 24 June – 22 July 2017
'The European project Ceramics and its Dimensions seeks to be a part of the rediscovering of the role of ceramics and the bringing forth of the knowledge of the heritage and the different traditions of the use of ceramics'.
Honoured to be included in the 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale this year, organised by the Korea Ceramics Foundation (April 22nd - October 9th)
Founded in 2001 to suggest the direction and visions for the future of world ceramics, the International Competition of GICB is the world's most prestigious international event for ceramic art.
Bit, 2016, 17x13x5cm
National Glass Centre Sunderland PV: Friday 24 March, 6-8pm. Exhibition: 25 Mar – 1 Oct
'National Glass Centre presents a new national exhibition of glass jewellery made by bringing together four glass artists and eight of the UK’s most exciting jewellers'.
'As the country’s main centre for glass, National Glass Centre works closely with many leading artists who have a high level of expertise in using different techniques. James Maskrey works in hot glass, Angela Thwaites in cast glass, Ayako Tani in lamp worked glass and Joanne Mitchell works in kiln-formed and waterjet cut glass. These four artists have shared their expertise with the jewellers who have had ten days each to create experimental new work in glass'.
'This exciting new ‘wearable glass’ will be presented alongside the twelve artist’s more established work allowing the viewer to compare the difference between artist’s work in glass and jewellery and what happens when they are brought together.'
My last trip to The National Glass Centre for the final assembling of work.
Julia Stephenson, Head of Arts at National Glass Centre said: “Through this project the jewellers and artists specialising in glass have collaborated, sharing their skills and challenging what is accepted as standard practice in both jewellery and glass. Around forty years ago artists started to make radical new jewellery using ‘non-precious’ materials. This work had an enormous impact on how we consider and value jewellery today. As a result of the very specific skills required to work in glass there has been very little overlap between artists working in glass and those working in jewellery. We have aimed to begin to address this through our exhibition.”
This year I will be attending the 'Glass Adornment' Residency at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. I'll be working with Master Glass Artist James Maskery to develop new forms which will be on show at NGC from the 25th March
Works currently on show at the Mission Gallery, Swansea (until the 19th February) were created during a residency at Guldagergaard, The International Ceramics Research Centre in Denmark. The forms have evolved from research trips to The Yorkshire Museum and The National Museum of Denmark.
Photo Credit: Deirdre Finnerty-Davies
Delighted to have been selected for the Crafts Council Hothouse scheme 2017. My Crafts Council Makers Directory Profile is now available to view.
I recently exhibited work at the Apple House Gallery in Guldagergaard as part of the Project Network residency scheme.
I'm showing new work at the Mission Gallery as part of their Maker in Focus Series. It's on until the 19th February.
Delighted to have been shortlisted for the Henry Rothschild Ceramics Bursary Prize.
Project Network Guldagergaard - the International Ceramics research Center in Denmark. I'll be developing new ideas for the Maker in Focus exhibition at Mission Gallery Jan-Feb 2017.
Happy to have been selected for this years Craft Emergency exhibition at the Aspex Gallery. Exhibition dates 25 November 2016 - 22 January 2017
'One Year On' opens at Llantarnam Grange on until 19th November. Including work by Rosamund Hanny, Chrisoula Konstantakou, Jacky Puzey and Claudia Wassiczek
The 'Making in Colour' exhibition is now open and on until 27th November at the Ruthin Craft Centre
Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre
I'm exhibiting new wall-based works in One Year On 2016 at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre in Cwmbran and showing alongside fabulous artists/makers Rosamund Hanny , Claudia Wassiczek and Chrisoula Konstantakou from 1st October – 19th November 2016
