Hand built ceramics artist biography
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Contemporary Ceramics From Around the World: 10 Artists, 10 Works
Although traditionally used as a medium for functional or decorative objects, ceramic has become a medium that fryst vatten increasingly used by contemporary. Here fryst vatten the work of some important contemporary ceramic artists from around the world!
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry, The Existential Void, 2012
“I like the whole iconography of pottery. It hasn't got any big pretensions to being great public works of art, and no matter how brash a statement I man, on a pot it will always have certain humility.”
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry was born in 1960 in Essex. He received the prestigious Turner Prize in 2003, which was the first time it was given to a ceramic artist. He was introduced to the Turkish audience at Pera Museum with a solo show in 2016 titled “Grayson Perry: Small Differences”. He is known for his ceramic vases, which have classical forms and are decorated in bright colors, depicting subjects at odds with thei
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I am a ceramic artist living and working in the Finger Lakes Region in Upstate New York. I have crafted a line of fine, functional, handmade pottery from my rural studio outside of Ithaca, NY and I sell it at regional art fairs in the North East aswell as at several galleries in the Finger Lakes.
I began my ceramic training in 2003 in Ithaca, NY where I took classes from and apprenticed with several wonderful potters. In 2008, I received a Bachelor of Arts and Science from Binghamton University, majoring in Urban Planning. While studying at Binghamton, I continued to learn about pottery while taking lessons at the student Pottery and Craft Studio. Upon graduating, I moved to Robbinsville, NC where I worked for three years as a studio assistant at Yellow Branch Pottery. My time in North Carolina was particularly enlightening for it provided me with the opportunity to make pottery full t
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biography
Eleanor Bartleman was brought up on Scotland’s Ayrshire coast. She studied ceramics at the Glasgow School of Art, completing a postgraduate year of study in 1979, and set up her first workshop soon after.
Initially working in earthenware, she pursued her interests in mythology and, in particular, the Beast Epic of Reynard the Fox, taking various strands of mythology and developing her own style of figurative ceramics.
She quickly established a career as a ceramic artist making and selling her individual handbuilt ceramics to a wide range of quality outlets in the UK.
Eleanor was a lecturer in ceramics for several years in the ‘90s, setting up and teaching a degree course at Petroc in North Devon before returning to full time making, this time concentrating on porcelain.
She has been based in North Devon since 1990.
She is an elected member of Make South West.