CARDIFF OPEN PRIVATE OPENING

Just a quick post to inform you all that my work will be showing in the Cardiff Open with the Cardiff Arts Collective for the Cardiff Design Festival. The opening is Friday the 5th, from 5-7pm and will be there for around two weeks. Really excited to see my work amongst other mixed media art, not only ceramics. 


11, High Street, Cardiff. 
10-5.30 daily, 1-27th of October. 

Have a look at their website:

http://www.cardiffartscollective.co.uk/#/

Exhibition opportunities!

Hello! Sorry it's been such a long time since I've written a post! I've been very busy, creating a facebook page firstly to join both my blog, my work and my friends, I also want to finish a website but not quite finished it yet! 

My work has just come down from the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff which was successful and I enjoyed having my work in such a public place, it was a great experience for me that so much of the public could see the work. I felt a great sense of achievement that the museum I spent time in sketching and taking images for inspiration wanted to show my work. 

I have now split the work into two groups, one has just been handed in for the Cardiff Open which is opening on the 1st of October until the 27th, in a shop near the Castle. This will have three shelves of work with fifteen pieces in all. 

The other group of pieces will be moving to Milkwood Gallery, from the 12th of October for two weeks, over the Made in Roath Festival. They will take their place nicely on the old fashioned dresser in the front of the shop. 

Another project I have in the pipeline is the Aberystwyth Arts Centre Christmas Craft Fair from the 26th of October until the 6th of January. Here I will be selling a collection of ceramic pieces and my hand-made Sterling Silver porcelain jewellery. If your around it's a great place to buy some individual, personal christmas presents for all your family and friends! 

I have been making new pieces to add to the collection of Minimus Maximus, so more seven and eight part molds in the new studio. Some great news, the new kiln was delivered today! So excited to start firing and create the tea set that I've been planning for a while now. 

I'm pleased that there is an interest in my degree show work, and love the idea of having many different bodies of work, from my Minimus Maximus range, to the Welsh Heritage pieces I want to continue from my second year to my porcelain jewellery. Well, we'll see how it all goes! 

Degree Show Success

Well, it's been a busy time! After my work visiting London for the New Designers Fair in the Business Design Centre and Art in Clay, Hatfield House I've been applying for competition and exhibition opportunities. I also graduated this week with a First Class Honors and had a lovely day at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay.

My work is currently showing in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, for the Contemporary Makers Showcase. It will be there until the 1st of September. I'm proud to be showing my work there, as it was such an inspiration to my work, that of the Swansea Pottery Lustreware and the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea.

I'm setting up my own studio space too, which I'm excited about! Just trying to get all the cobwebs out, then it's time to get making! I will be creating new designs of cups, saucers and teapots hopefully to add to the many jug designs from my degree show. 

I will also be showing my work on the creativeGAPS website, which is a great showcase for people to see my work. www.creativegaps.co.uk.

After the degree show I felt a bit deflated, working so hard towards an outcome and not having anywhere straight away to carry on making, but I'm happy to be continuing my work in the studio I have now. 

I will be exhibiting at the Made in Roath and Cardiff Design Festival, showing my work at the Milkwood Gallery in Cardiff. I love this gallery so it's great to be showing my work there. Here is their website, check them out! :)

www.milkwoodgallery.com/ 

I'm happy with the reaction towards my work, and have had some great comments on how to improve and develop the concept. 

That's all for now. I'll leave you with a picture of my studio, mid-painting and moving in!! Happy times! 

New Designers

I have been chosen to represent Cardiff Metropolitan University at New Designers this year. I will be taking a selection of three shelves of my work from the degree show.

I'm very excited for this opportunity. The work will be shown along with twelve of my peers from the 27th-30th of June. 

Rwyf i wedi cael fy newis i gynrychioli Prifysgol Fetropolaidd Caerdydd yn 'New Designers' y flwyddyn hon. Mi fyddwn i yn mynd a detholiad o tair silff o waith o'r Sioe Radd.


Rwyf edrych ymlaen i'r cyfle. Bydd y gwaith yn cael ei ddangos ynghyd a deuddeg o weithiau eraill o'r 27ain-30ain o Fehefin. 

Minimus Maximus

For my final show plan I wanted the idea of excess and grandeur to be evident. How, although I've looked at minimalistic and modernist ideal for my contextual research, the contrast between this and this collective piece that reflects upon the title 'Minimus Maximus' and how modernism and post modernism has inspired me. As Robert Ventun and Mies van der Rohe both famously argued, 'Less is more,' 'Less is a bore.'

I believe that both movements have inspired me. Another inspiration is the ceramic galleries in the Victoria & Albert in London, how vessels and forms are shown together even if they're from different periods and made in different countries. The pieces that I have bought are re-born to create new forms where the idea of history rubbing against each other and connecting.

I wanted the illusion of height and mass due to the amount of pieces on the shelves. I wanted the collection to look as if every different piece was a different design. Although the work is on shelving, it's possible to see the forms at a 360 degree as the same forms are showing but at different angles. I wanted to fill the shelves with the vessels and create as much as possible with hints or highlighted editions in the deep green glaze to accentuate the form and design.

Gwaith a syniadau newydd / New work and ideas

I have designed these cups to go with not only the jug designs I have been working on, but also I want to create a tea set with a set of saucers and a teapot too.

Rwyf i wedi dylunio'r cwpanau yma i fynd gyda'r jygiau rwyf i wedi bod yn gweithio arnynt, rwyf i eisiau creu set de â soseri a tebot.

Y gwaith yn dod at ei gilydd / The work coming together

I think the jugs together are very successful in showing the idea of excess, I will be putting lustres on the work too, to show fluidity throughout the work.

Rwy'n credu bod y jwgiau yn llwyddiannus iawn yn dangos gormodaeth, mi fyddaf yn rhoi gloywedd aur ar y gwaith i ddangos llifedd trwy'r gwaith.