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| An opportunity for Ceramicists to make valuable contacts in Wales and Ireland. If you would like to place a notice on our bulletin board, set up a link with your own website, and/or alert others to important events taking place in Ireland or Wales, please CLICK HERE |
NORTH WALES POTTERS CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION Llanidloes, Mid Powys. Don't miss this event at WOOD N THINGS GALLERY, Longbridge Street, LLanidloes! A good range of quality work by Bev Bell-Hughes, Terry Bell-Hughes, Linda Caswell, Willie Carter, Phil Mumford, Chris Purdy, Katie Scarlett Howard, Owen Thorpe. Also lots to see and do in the town; thriving art community, superb alternative shops and Great Oak Cafe. Worth an afternoon visit! For more information please contact: Chris Purdy 01686 624 332 |
QUÉBEC RESIDENCY
For further information and application details please go to: www.wai.org/meduse |
EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY Newtown Library, Powys Newtown library have a small gallery/exhibition space in their busy town centre library with wall space plus 3 secure glass display cabinets and would be interested in displaying work from local artists. The use of space is free and usually booked for 2/4 weeks at a time. For more information please contact: Candy Hodgetts, Branch Librarian 01691 626 934 |
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THE 2006 GMUDEN CERAMICS SYMPOSIUM The symposium is intended to promote young european ceramic artists and to serve as a platform and spring board for their career. For more information and/or an application form please email organisation@keramiksymposium.com Austria |
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WELSH MANUFACTURER OF WHITE CHINA? I am trying to locate a Welsh manufacturer of white china or pottery who would be interested in making quite large volume editions of table-ware. They would need to have their own equipment for transfering high standard images onto the table-ware. I would be most grateful for any information on this matter. Claire Ward West Wales |
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ADVICE ON LAYOUT OF NEW POTTERY I'm building a new pottery at my home and would like advice on things to look out for when deciding "what should go where". I will be working in stoneware and (mainly) throwing. I have a largish bare-walled room - with a sink and draining board planned along one wall. Any tips for what needs to go where? Steve Hoselitz SWP |
As the Féile Clai project approaches its final major event we plan to show a joint exhibition, with our Irish partners, of work from established ceramicists who live or work in the Interreg 111A area, (Anglesey, Ceredigion, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbigh, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire in Wales), showing the diversity and quality of work being created in these areas.
This exhibition for 2007 which will open at Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin, at the end of April, will transfer to Aberystwyth Arts Centre in June for the world famous International Ceramics Festival.
We would like to invite applications, from makers who have been in business for at least five years, for consideration for this prestigious exhibition. A maximum of 16 makers from Wales and Ireland will be chosen. This very difficult task will be carried out by an independent panel comprising of two jurors from Wales and two from Ireland.
The exhibition will be well publicised with advertisements in Ceramic Review and the National Press.
If you would like to be considered for this selection please send three digital images or slides to
Joan Doherty
Little Barn,
Pentwyn,
Tredustan,
Talgarth,
Powys, LD3 0PY.
These should describe the type of ceramics or new work that would be offered for exhibition.
The deadline for submissions is 12th January 2007
Outreach Workers Interim Report Report 2005 Click here to read the interim report compiled by Outreach Worker Pea Restall |
The object of this report is to establish the effectiveness of the outreach of the Féile Clai programme to date, monitor the fulfilment of its aims to identify the needs of makers in Wales and Ireland nand give them support and training in order to create and sustain a lively successful ceramics industry which otherwise would not be addressed. |
An Opportunity for New and Emerging Makers to Display and sell their work at Aberystwyth Arts Centre |
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As part of the Féile Clai Project selected New and Emerging Makers from Wales or Ireland INTERREG areas will be given the opportunity to display and sell their work in Aberystwyth Arts Centres Craft Gallery. • Selected makers will each be given gallery space for a six week periods throughout the three year project. • The gallery takes a 33% commission off the retail selling price. There is 17.5% VAT on the commission. If you are interested in submitting your work, please send a recent CV with 6 slides / images by |
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| Feile Clai Case Study | |
Feile Clai would like to highlight new/emerging makers who have created a sucessful career in ceramics with the aim of encouraging other makers to do the same. Our second Case Study is by Karen Morgan |
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Karen Morgan - Ceramicist |
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I first became interested in working with clay while attending the Limerick School of Art and Design where I went on to achieve a Diploma in Ceramic Product Design. Following this I attended the one-year Pottery Skills Course in 1999 where I acquired the necessary skills as a potter to go out and work as a full-time production thrower. I spent the next couple of years developing my throwing skills further while working in a number of Irish studios such as Michael Kennedy’s Pottery,Co Galway and Castle Arch Pottery, Kilkenny. Then I took some time out to travel and I worked with Paul Laird in New Zealand as well as teaching ceramics on board a Princess cruise ship for six months. I returned to Ireland in 2005 to attend the second year of the new Pottery Design and Skills Course which gave me the oppurtunity to develop my own design and making skills in order to set up my own studio.
I am currently making two ranges of work both hand thrown.The first is a contemporary range in porcelain and includes my pestle and mortar. The second range “Sandscapes” involves more individual, sculptural vessels. Inspired by shell forms and natural landscapes both ranges share a similar language created by accentuating the flow of form through, distorting an applied linear pattern.
Winner of the 2006 Habitat/House and Home Design Award my porcelain Pestle and Mortar was designed to combine sculpture and function.”wonderful to use,very functional and great to hold and this was the winning factor for me” Dermot Boyd, Architect. This piece has been purchased by the National Crafts Gallery for their permanent collection and also earned me the 2006 Irish Student Designer of the year Award at the RDS Interior Design Show,Dublin.
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To create the Sandscape vessels I stretch and alter the clay while its fresh on the wheel capturing the tension and energy within the piece.These organic soft, fluid forms reflect the light and shadows cast over sand dunes where patterns constantly change and reinvent themselves. “Sandscapes” took part in this year’s Ceramics Ireland, Dalkey Castle Exhibition and were awarded the Peter Brennan Pioneering Ceramics Award, this exhibition then took part in Plan Expo, the annual architectural convention in RDS,Dublin.
Both ranges of work also took part in the RDS National Crafts Show,Dublin, 2006.
Winning the Feile Clai Emerging Makers bursary this year gave me the wonderful oppurtunity to travel to the UK to work with potter Jack Doherty. The week I spent working with him in his studio really benefitted and inspired me. It was great to take part in the Emerging Makers exhibition which travelled from the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny to Aberystwyth allowing me to showcase my work in both Ireland and Wales.Getting this kind of exposure at this stage of my career has helped greatly in creating a number of oppurtunities and really expanded my horizons.
Currently I work part-time for Colm de Ris Pottery,Dublin and make and design my own work from a studio based in Thomastown.Co Kilkenny. Contact details: Tel: 00353 (0)86 1663691 E; karenmorganceramics@eircom.net Address; 18 The Belfry,Thomastown, Co.Kilkenny.Ireland
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