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The body of work that
was conceived during my recent MA at the RCA is concerned with
exploring how scale, colour, texture and material inform our
perception and understanding of form. The space an object occupies
through its scale has a significant role in determining our
relationship with it. Colour, whether bright, soft, intense or vivid
has a powerful effect in defining its character. Textural treatment
invites us to examine the tactile qualities of the surface and how
this influences our ability to read and comprehend a form.
I am interested in the lines
and spaces that develop through both the manipulation of the volume
within forms and their relationship to one another. The interaction
between sharp and organic lines creates subtle and sometimes
pronounced curves that invite the eye to engage with the sculptural
aesthetics of the form.
AWARDS
2010 Welsh
Artist of the Year 2010, Applied Arts Category.
Purchase Award, the National Eisteddfod.
2008/09
Public Award for best in show, the International
Oldenburg Ceramics Fair, Germany.
2008
Best of the Best Award at Art In Action festival.
2003
Sotheby’s highly commended award at Potfest in the Park.
2002
Peers award, Art in Clay Hatfield House.
EXHIBITIONS & SHOWS
2012
Solo show, Beaux Arts Bath
Figure, Form &
Material duo with Sue Hanna at Rufford CC
COLLECT Fair
at the Saatchi Gallery
Ceramic Art
London at the RCA- London
Metamorphoses,
Solo show at Le Don Du Fell gallery, France
Earth, group
exhibition at Ruthin CC
2011
MA graduation show at the RCA- London.
Line,
Volume & Space- Solo show at Contemporary Ceramics
2010
Trio show at Le Don Du Fell gallery, France.
Welsh Artist of The
Year exhibition, St Davids Hall, Cariff.
The National
Eistedfodd- Wales.
2009
Solo exhibition at Beaux Arts gallery, Bath.
Ceramic Art London
Fair at the RCA- London.
Invited
demonstrator, Art In Action- Waterperry- House-and-Gardens.
Westerwald prize
exhibition, Keramik museum Westerwald- Germany.
Westerwald prize
(touring) Museum International Ceramic Art, Grimmerhus, Denmark.
Westerwald prize,
touring exhibition, Kammerhof Museen, Gmunden- Austria.
2008
‘Formed in Fire’ group exhibition, The Leach pottery, St Ives.
Duo exhibition with
Sue Hanna at Rufford CC.
Ceramic Art London
Fair at the RCA- London.
Duo exhibition with
Sue Hanna at Tenby Museum- wales.
2007
Clay14 group exhibition at Woodbury Studio Gallery
Invited
demonstrator at Art In Action- Waterperry- House-and-Gardens.
Solo showcase, part
of the Liverpool Arabic festival at The BlueCoat Display Centre.
CPA at Fifty,
touring exhibition
17 Prime Makers,
group exhibition- Ireland, Wales.
Solo exhibition at
Beaux Arts gallery- Bath.
Monochrome,
group exhibition at Contemporay Ceramics Gallery
2006
Duo exhibition with Dedrie Burnett at Alpha House gallery, Dorset
COLLECT Fair at the
V & A
2005
Ceramic Art London Fair at the RCA- London.
Hayes & Hanna-
two man show at Rufford Ceramic Centre.
New Directions,
Group exhibition Book launch exhibition for Tim Andrews new Raku
book.
Solo at
Alpha House gallery- Dorset.
In The window
Bluecoat Display Centre- Liverpool.
Smoke fired in
Britain group exhibition at Loes & Reinier gallery- The
Netherlands.
COLLECT Fair at the
V & A represented by Contemporary Ceramics.
2003
Clay Ten, group show- Woodbury Studio Gallery, Devon.
Solo Showcase,
Contemporary Cramics Gallery- London.
2002
Solo showcase at Yorkshire Museum curated by Maggie Barnes of
European Ceramics.
SOFA- CHICAGO
2001
Solo Show at the Mecer Gallery – curator, Maggie Barnes.
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