There is a particular quality of silence in an empty room, especially a family home when the door slams loudly and voices dissipate along the street. It is as if the air exhales, released from its constant disruption, constant churning by children running up the stairs and through doorways. For a moment, it is given reprieve to settle into the spaces left behind.
Material Presence 2018
May 2019
Ceramics Art and Perception: article 'Pacing the Perimeter'
May 2019
Ceramics Art and Perception: article 'Pacing the Perimeter'
I am a practitioner at heart but constantly drawn towards the wider ecologies of creative practice, to the devising, and capturing of wider ecosystems that evidence an entanglement of multiple, interconnected demands ...
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Selected Exhibition/Event:
Co-Devised: Zelli Porcelain Figurative Award, Marylelbone
Conference: Theorizing Practice: A Research Culture for Ceramics, University of Westminster, Harrow
Conference: Craft in the 21st Century: Theorizing Change in Practice, University of Edinburgh, Art College
Joint Award: Zelli Porcelain Figurative Award
Festival:: Expression of Flesh and Skin, Theory in Education, Aberystwyth International Ceramics Festival
Round Table: Gendered Figure, to accompany the exhibition 'The Female Form. Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
Conference: Practice and Reflection II Frome Arts Centre, UK
Awarded: PhD, University of Aberystwyth 'An Investigation Into the Potential of Ceramics to Expressively Render Flesh and Skin on the Human Form
Exhibited: Ceramic Contemporaries 4 touring: Royal College of Art, London, Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, Wrexham Art Gallery, Collins Gallery Glasgow, and Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Exhibited: Bodywork, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Awarded: Arts and humanities Research Council Grant to Co Devise: The Fragmented Figure Exhibition and Conference, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff Met
Exhibited: Figurative Craft in the Bay
Exhibited: It Wouldn’t Be Worth it Without the Struggle, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff Met
Exhibited: Corps fertile body, Ceredigion Museum, St. Fagan’s Museum, Carmarthenshire County Museum, Musee du Perigord, France
Awarded HEA Grant to devise Symposium and Exhibition Drawing In-Between: Interdisciplinary Learning Through Drawing, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Awarded Wales Arts International Grant to Devise Exhibition: Beyond Borders, Art Xchange Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA as part of NCECA
Exhibition: Fireworks Now, Craft in the Bay, Y Galleri, Caerphilly. Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Conference: Parental Conversations: Towards a New Domestic Culture presented as part of the 'Thinking with John Berger Conference, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Co-Curated with Zoe Preece the exhibition: The Sensorial Object a curatorial project exploring sense experience through crafted objects and devised events surrounding: interdisciplinary workshops exploring sensory perception, Joanna Grace (Sensory Story) Becky Lydon (Sensory Spectacle), Lea McLaughlin, Bethan Frieze, for Craft in the Bay, Makers Guild Wales, UK
Co-Presented: Sensorial Object with Zoe Preece for SSN York Museum Trust and National Museum, Wales.
Awarded Funding: Artworks Cymru Seed Fund, to convene Flux: Art, Society and Responsibility and Drawing Parental Conversations International project 28 families across eight countries
Devised: Drawing Inspirations Symposium, CSAD in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing Inspirations devised by Alex McErlain at Craft in the Bay, Makers Guild, Wales.
Exhibited: Figurative Symposium' International Ceramics Studio, Hungary