Perception Deception "Abstracting is real, probably more real than nature" - Josef Albers My work is part of an investigation into the forms and shapes which appear in nature and animals. My practice took root through the investigation of a painting at a museum...
Pulse "Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you in to creativity that is not hampered by opinion"- Red Haircrow The work is a visual experience of my own creative practice; a way of actualising the unseen without a verbal language. I play with...
A Material Experience A material experience comes from an experimental style of making, which is driven by a fascination with ceramic material and its vast range of qualities and potentials. Alongside this, the process of making is especially important to the overall...
Proxemics: an invasion of personal space. "All these people-producers,coaxers,consumers-are engaged in assembling life story actions around lives,events and happenings-although they cannot grasp the actual life. At the centre of much of this action emerge the story...
The space binds and flows like poetry and on a starting points demonstrates thats that I have negotiated with internal and external space within the objects presented. Space with its whole sophisticated metaphor becames the subject of my work and something I have...
Adapt Integral to the pursuit of understanding, human beings extend themselves - combining flesh with machine to excel beyond limitations, we progress, struggling to adapt to new parameters. This co-existence is not necessarily one of harmony; as tensions build we...
Paper Bag "It affected the whole of my life, I went right off the rails afterwards, I never went back to reading Jackie comics. All stopped. I just drowned in drink and drugs and being suicidal. I feel destroyed. I never told my mum and she's dead now, it's the one...
Duration 30 metres Lydia Spurrier-Dawes' recurrent interest in how we conduct social relationships and create interpersonal bonds is key to her work. In the Duration 30 Metres series of performances Spurrier-Dawes uses the presence of the empathetic artist as her...
Beginning of Existence I use the drawing process to aid the exploration and understanding of origins. My work seeks to use the notion of drawing as an experimental tool and giving it a value beyond merely the aesthetic. This series of work explores the space beyond...
The Salient Dead 'We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together' History removes man from sites of carnage; death tolls of warfare are reported via the amount of weapons used rather than casualties: 'They describe the struggle of the tanks, guns,...
Delineations Is there a line that divides day and night, land and sea, east and west? Where does this line lie? It shifts continuously, it is not fixed, it is intangible. When we reach out for it, it moves on. Our perceptions are based on our current position, when we...
The landscape painting has inspired a plenty of works since a long time ago, and it is still a great source that has many possibilities and valuable parts that could be worked with various interpretations. This project has started from an inspiration by traditional...
Self-Portrait "But if you look long enough, eventually you will be able to see me" - Margaret Atwood. Self-Portrait is a part of a ceramic and theoretical investigation into what portraiture can reveal to the viewer. This collection of ceramic objects physically...
Pareidolia Responding to local geological phenomena, these pieces reflect a creative investigation into the concept of material. Heat, pressure and time, are the predominant forces in both geological and ceramic process, altering states of material. This work...
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Tiger Bay Arts CentreThe Tiger Bay Arts Centre Project has provided me with the opportunity to design an exciting new waterside development in the heart of Cardiff Bay. Throughout the duration of the project I have had the opportunity to demonstrate my knowledge and...
Simple Complexity Bringing together the latest technology and traditional craft by merging 3D printing with ceramics. This work will begin to form the identity of my design brand, showing a collaborative approach that brings together design disciplines and craft...
Ceramic art is so much about processes and materiality. I look to traditional processes but combine them with industrial and contemporary tools to update my work. This body of ceramic forms evolved from an investigation into the traditional vessel and industrial...
The body of work I present for the Degree Show is an exploration of material and theoretical constructs, and a statement on global conservation from a socio-political standpoint. Drawing inspiration from graph readings of seismic events and traditional pottery...
The development of microorganisms over 98 days.
Geometry is the visual study of spatial forms, shapes, sizes, positions and patterns. It is the branch of mathematics concerning the relationships, measurements and properties of points, angles, lines, surfaces and solids. It defines the world around us and everything...
Telling a Narrative My work explores the rich collections of myths and legends, some well known narratives that have engaged our imagination for centuries. I alter the story, to be seen from the standpoint of the animal, making them the victim and not us. Myths have...
"Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this?"" - Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit The capturing of images through photography is a major theme running through my work, how we use images to construct and...
Reconciliation Where Isaac Newton, along with many Renaissance scientists, spent countless hours attempting to turn base elements into elusive precious metals with no success, the modern ceramicist has the power to do this, through an understanding of essential...
Yours Truly Artist statement I create work based on the idea of being human; not only forms but emotive and functioning. As human beings we can never understand ourselves completely, which creates a certain dichotomy, if we do not understand completely how we feel and...
The Honest Attention I centre the basis of this idea around the ideas of abstract expressionism. The vessel is the vehichle I choose to work with, to explore space and time and these objects act as a carrier for self expression. My approach to throwing is intuitive...
Human Beauty I work with classical narratives to create wearable ceramics, thus connecting to the wearer and drawing them into the story and focus. I am passionate about using my work as a vessel to draw a little bit of fantasy from my classical inspirations and into...
My work attempts to address, not our relationship to the earth, but the earths relationship to ourselves using a variety of clays dug from around cardiff to illustrate the variety, but underlying commonality of humanity and the transient experience of being human,...
The Process Object Oriented Ontology, the idea of an object having an effect on the human mind and being able to recollect thoughts and feelings is very interesting when working with found artefacts. This interaction is of great importance to my work, not just by...
The proposition that we are defined by our abilities is brought into question in relation to my practice, highlighting the possibility that it is not our abilities but our choices that define us as creators. My work explores the restrictions that occur in both 2D and...
I employ traditional pottery techniques to create contemporary work that explores formal values, through the medium of tableware. Formal values are explored in both 2D and 3D formats using relatively minimal abstract mark making, these are then appropriated for...
Exhibiting aesthetic sensibilities which are experienced from visual representation created within an object and the displaying of contradictions between the real and unreal is central to my work. This visual language of past and present creates a 'tipping point'...
The Family This body of work has been inspired by the emotional content found within fairytales. It focuses upon the embodiment of human emotion and not on the traditional ideals of fairytale, being made to highlight the human condition through materiality and...
Touch Drawing is a key element of my practice and I have previously worked with fabric, stitch, light and wire as well as traditional drawing materials. For this work I wanted to develop my interest in the body and make a piece about movement, about energy and energy...
Hybrid Furniture Wood and ceramic have been the material focus of much of my work. My latest project explores material hybridity in furniture, incorporating ceramics and metal as visual elements within hardwood pieces. The coffee table incorporates dovetailed metal...
Attracted to the light My designs are derived from various insects that have a reaction to light, a reaction that makes them move whether they are attracted or repelled by it. I studied these movements and took the negative spaces created by their body and wings,...
Medals of Injustice Joshua Baurley is an artist specialising in small-scale sculpture, using the vehicle of the art medal to compare opposite or opposing sides of a humanitarian or political issue. This series of art medals is inspired by themes of injustice. The...
Dazzled My work is centered on paper manipulation and inspiration comes from naturally occurring structures, primarily shells. I was interested in taking lines and shapes from nature into a different situation, the domestic interior. My starting point were paper...
Contort Definition: To twist or bend out of the normal shape. The properties of wood and Valchromat have been modified to create a flexible material through the empirical experimentation of the laser cutting process. These light boxes utilise the idea of concealment...
Series One... The Cube This exhibition shows the journey of a simple line drawing developed through Corel Draw, laser cutting and Photoshop, to create a complex pattern. My interest is in taking a 2D image into a 3D object and then back in to 2D. Bringing the...
Immortalised in Porcelain The main focus of Hannah's work is to create bespoke ceramic artefacts that are inspired by traditional Wedgewood Jasperware, and through digital manipulation the work is made in to a piece of contemporary ceramics. The works main feature is...
Flock My work is an exploration of beauty and life within organic sculptural pieces. With a focus on the natural world, my work brings beauty to the commonplace or throwaway elements of our lives. The transformation of stainless steel cutlery into animal forms gives...
Drawing with Light - Describing an Arc This body of work began with the discovery of a box of Soviet sextant parts in my dad's cellar. Somehow it didn't seem entirely out of place that he would have such a thing, although the circumstances surrounding its acquisition...
The Hare This project explores the many symbolisms linked with the hare. Many cultures have their own story/myths surrounding the hare, but in each there are links with fertility, new life and more importantly, the Moon. Each ceramic figure explores a different...
A Deadly Beauty This body of this work is based upon the recent passing of my late Uncle Gary. My uncle was a very important person in my life, and responsible for igniting my fascination for the macabre. When I mentioned my Uncle's passing to people outside of my...
Shadow Shelter First conceived by the notion of "shelter", this final piece was influenced by Japanese architecture and Design theory, the project explores the values of malleability and kinetic environments. The conception of the interactive kirigami fan is to...
Upcycled Wood Furniture This is a collection of furniture pieces made from locally sourced unused wood from the Welsh valleys. Alongside the wood I used a hybrid of metals and yarn to create the furniture pieces. I believe by doing this I am giving the wood a new...
Cardiff Waterside Arts Centre - 'The Spring' The project being exhibited is a proposed design for a new Arts Centre which is 12 floors high providing 13500 m2 of accommodation including a cinema, theatre/performance space, dance /aerobic classes, gallery/exhibition...
Ty Cwyr art centre Ty Cwyr, an inspiring new waterside art centre designed for a vacant site located on Britannia Quay , Cardiff Bay. The design is inspired by the concept of art itself, what is the true meaning of art and art in its natural form. Honeycomb was the...