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welcome

Roll over the mirrors for some notes on each featured sculpture. 

You'll find details of my book 'Putting my heads together' here.

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about me

I make heads and faces. Some people have great faces on the first look; other people’s faces grow on me.  Some faces have a particularly interesting composition or outline. Faces are surprisingly different and I like the sensation of change that I get when I look from one face to another. Lived in faces hold more of a fascination for me than the sparsely populated faces of perfection. There’s no one place that I start, each piece of work is an amalgamation of influences - people I meet, faces in print, previous works, sketches and drawings. Narrative is significant; I collect words, sayings and pieces of conversations, quotes, poetry and the wording of adverts.  It all goes into the work, either conspicuously as a title or as an idea when I’m planning the piece. Some days I have all these things in my head when I sit down to work. Other days I start with no particular intention and just see who or what emerges from the clay.

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Education:

1993 BA(Hons) Graphic Design/ Illustration, Bath Spa University.

2006 MA Ceramics, University Wales Institute Cardiff

 

Awards:

Crafts Council ‘Next Move’ Award

Arts Council Grants for the Arts

 

Public Collections:

Ceramic Collection and Archive, Aberystwyth University.

 

Selected previous shows:

Origin, Somerset House, London

Ceramic Art London, RCA, London

‘Two ways about it’, The Brownston Gallery, Modbury, Devon

‘Must Have More’, Aspex, Portsmouth

‘Get Fresh’, The Devon Guild

‘In the Window’, The Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool,

 

Associate Member of the Devon Guild 

 

        

 

This rather lovely site was built by very clever Ed after much talking and was such fun to make!