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My sculpture, both on a large and small-scale, centres around the process of casting applied through the media of plaster, concrete and ceramic. Exploiting the convolutions of the process and the interplay between positive and negative, I’ve worked with reversals of original imagery, creating negative indentations on the sculpture’s surface. ...
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I have always felt a strong affinity with my medium, in particular its variety and unpredictability. Torn edges, cracks, slumped shapes, textures, all things I happily incorporate and cultivate within my surfaces and forms. I am a great believer in letting the clay express itself, maintaining the integrity of the material, making sure that it...
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Following a period working in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s conservation department, I moved across the road to the Science Museum where I was given access to their stores. It was here where the roots of my work began.  Disparate objects placed next to each other by size and material gave rise to surprising and discordant marriages....
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We live in a world that is constantly changing and evolving even the things we take for granted as always being there are constantly in flux. This is the flux that Kate Hammersley captures in her work. Transient moments such as a word spoken in passing, a lightning strike or a shifting horizon line are sources of inspiration in her work which...
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The emphasis of my previous work has been the use of abstraction to portray a more atmospheric and ethereal view of our natural world. In order to achieve this I have used my observations of the natural environment and interpreted them through the use of colour, texture and line in order to create the sensation of oneself being encompassed within...
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I love paint in all its forms.  The physical sensuality of it.  The truth and the lies.  Object and illusion.  Window on the world.  Window on the soul.  Layers of factory-produced, chemically calculated magic.  Years ago, in America, I stopped using rectangular stretched canvas.  I started building...
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Heritage interpretation plays an important part in Theresa Easton’s practice. Easton is interested in exploring cultural and historical episodes using contemporary printmaking processes. Central to Easton’s creative practice is the role of printmaking. Easton is interested in pushing the boundaries in printmaking and working with...
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Ryan McClelland was born in Liverpool in 1978, he moved to London in 1997 to study at Camberwell College of Art, subsequently studying at Goldsmiths College and then obtaining his MA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 2007. His work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at the Oscar Neiymer Museum in...
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Concepts Ailsa graduated from Cardiff University in 1999 with a first class honours degree in Ceramics.  Her work experiments with a wide variety of decorative wheel thrown pieces and handbuilt sculptures which concentrate on form rather than function and explore both negative and positive space and the movement suggested within those spaces...
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"I am exploring 'process' as a response to existential tension, and 'material' as a route to presence. I am interested in finding ways to manage and enjoy the life and death tension of our existence." (Veronique Maria 06-2011)
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The landscape around me offers the basis of my inspiration. Finding forms worn away over time intrigues me, either by weathering or erosion. I am drawn to naturally occurring curves produced over time by these processes, such as an ancient step found at the entrance of a church. I was recently awarded a grant from the Arts Council of Wales titled...
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Louise Bradley explores drawing, printing and painting as well as digital media. She works initially directly from life, focusing on line, structure, emotion and symbolism to create a powerful presence of the subject, whether it is a portrait, figure or still life. Recent work has been developed by making automatic drawings which are drawings...
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I wander at the edges, a flaneuse, observing, seizing fragments by drawing swiftly or using a video camera, and I express my ideas in a personal way employing a diaristic confessional mode that communicates clearly to reach the power of universal meaning, and to engage a wide audience. Educated in the sixties; empowered by feminism and by...
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Born in Edinburgh. Lorraine Robson spent some years working as a Cartographer before studying Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. After graduating she worked for a Commercial Sculpture Studio, producing commissioned fibreglass figures. During this period Lorraines own sculpture developed in plaster, fibreglass and cold cast metals. This work...
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My work is inspired by natural forms and observation of related forms found in the manufactured world. It is mostly porcelain, sometimes with additions of glass or metal, and best described as semi-functional or non-functional, though the many vases I make all work. Since childhood I have always loved lanterns and specific lights which give...
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Concepts Mostly wheel-thrown with some press moulded textural combinations. I produce elevated stemmed vessels, birdbaths and sconces. All are functional, individual one-off pieces. Elements of ancient artefacts are present in my work and reference is also drawn from period garden ornamentation and architecture. Influences Textural, wheel...
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Concepts/themes/ideasI am a public and community artist working in the medium of architectural ceramics. The content of project work has mainly covered local heritage, geographic and historic, rural and urban. I have also worked on a multi cultural theme working with the group Connecting Cultures. My personal theme lies in the historic and...
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Recognition begins the instant we encounter any form of representation, our cognitive memory grasps onto certain aspects and we begin to interpret what we see. My current work is an investigation into this process of perception, how we forge mental links in order to understand. I am interested in the metaphor of language as a structure, one...
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Current issues inform my practice, in particular those that seem pivotal to sustainability and wellbeing. I'm interested in complex systems such as the eco system, capitalism and the use of energy and water.I am a ceramics specialist, but my work is mixed media particularly when creating installations, which may include film and sound. A...
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Career Path I established my practice in 1996, a year after attaining a BA (Hons) in three dimensional design. With grants from the PYBT & Business Link the practice grew and developed. To add to the success I was awarded a travel scholarship from the Winston Churchill Trust in 1998 which enabled me to study at the prestigious...
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My work involves creating permanent installations in a wide range of media, especially ceramics, glass and mosaic. Examples of my previous projects include sculptures, wall reliefs, floorscapes, water features, decorative seating and architectural features for new builds. My designs are situated in a variety of urban and rural locations, such as...
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Extending the boundaries of the handmade to express abstract ideas, I confront the collision between art and science, directing energies into exploiting the properties of a primal material at the extremes of its capabilities. Abstracting biological concepts of form and function is a negotiation between the engineered and the organic from...
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Concepts/themes/ideas The non-functional vessel has been my main focus for several years. Influenced by formal research, a series of work from 2006-2010 explored the representations of tourism: the souvenir and the photograph in particular. Research trips undertaken to Alberta, Canada, and Philadelphia, USA provided a rich source of...
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Concepts I specialise in the design and fabrication of site-specific artworks for public spaces. I collaborate with artists, architects, planners and engineers on projects within Urban Regeneration, Housing Renewal, Home Zones and in Healthcare settings. All my work is site-specific. Design concepts and the choice of materials...
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I make hand-built decorative ceramic forms for the interior in stoneware and earthenware clays. I have recently developed a new range of pieces, using new clays and glazes. The bowl shapes are formed by smoothing flat sheets of clay into hand made plaster press-moulds. I then scrape the forms with tools and 'pinch' the rims to achieve a delicate...
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I am interested in challenging the inherent characteristics of clay to form a spontaneous, rhythmic and consistent visual line. Falling from a wall mounted extruder I allow a length of clay to draw like a pencil to create the 3 dimensional forms. The extruded material is coaxed to meander in and out of space, making frequent changes of direction...
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ConceptsFrom the ridiculous to the sublime. I work on the wheel. An experience initially so like sticking your hand up a cow's bottom. But also, by contrast, a transportation that results in finding yourself playing a rhapsody on a finely tuned instrument. I am interested in most things. Words are very important to me. I have always read,...
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At the core of my interest is the enjoyment of disparity, discontiguity and the occasional brief failure of Gestalt mechanisms, and the quest to represent this in some way. I investigate ways of seeing, specifically with reference to cultural and paradigm disjunction, and embody these disparities in my working practice. I work with video and in...
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A common theme, which seems to run through my work, is the elevation of the status of the discarded, rejected and ignored. My designs recognise neglected needs and challenge the standard.I work mainly in ceramics and photography.'Making Sense', a series of over 40 ceramic tiles, is one example of elevating the status of the discarded. In...
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We inhabit two worlds in parallel. Two different universes that equally follow the laws of physics; one material, with mass and volume and the other a mathematical construct assembled from binary information.In this body of work these two worlds, the material and the digital, become a metaphor for the mind and the body, as well as for the physical...
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My work examines ways in which digital technology can be used to stimulate new perceptions of museum artefacts. I explored the ceramic collection of the National Museum Wales to investigate ways in which digital 3D scanning and print technology can be used to re-imagine objects, thereby extending their narrative from the past into the present day....
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My work explores how the perception of three-dimensional ceramic forms can be manipulated by the application of arrangements of bands on their surfaces. Depending on the arrangement, using gradients of width, interval or tone, illusory spatial phenomena can appear and thus significantly influence the actual three-dimensional forms. The duration of...
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