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View Image Gallery Alison Graham(Full member)

Tel: +44(0)7967 740 494   Email:   Web: www.aligrahamceramics.moonfruit.com  

Artists Statement

My work explores the creation of an illusion of depth and visual movement on the surface of porcelain artworks, through the intuitive, yet informed application of colour and glaze.
My work explores how colour and glaze can be manipulated and articulated to create the illusion of depth and spatial instability on fine sheets of porcelain paper clay.

My palette is inspired by the Lake District in Cumbria where I was born and raised, and incorporates subtle shades and saturated hues of blue-green and reddish brown terracotta. These colours are painted adjacent and on top of one another in carefully arranged compositions to create contrast, harmony and visual flux; an aesthetic experience reminiscent of this complex, beautiful landscape.

The printing method I have adopted allows me to work from within the image, building up fine layers of semi-transparent and opaque colour which when printed reveal subtle nuances and effects hidden from me during the making process. My work is all hand-painted, thus each piece is unique with a delicate ephemeral quality.

Current Work Available from:

Oriel Makers Gallery, 37 Pen y lan Road, Roath, Cardiff
The Sho Gallery, 1a Inverness Place, Roath, Cardiff
Workshop Wales Gallery, Manarowen, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
Walford Mill Crafts, Wimbourne, Dorset
Just make, 38 Market Street, Wells, Somerset
Water Street Gallery, Todmorden, West Yorkshire
Bakewell Arts & Design, Bakewell, Derbyshire
Mick Oxley Gallery, Craster, Northumberland
The Flint Gallery, 5 Westgate Street, Blakeney, Norfolk

Alison also has work available FOR SALE from her website 

Technical Information

My work is made with Royale Porcelain from Valentine Clays Ltd, which is slaked into a slip and combined with paper pulp, and is coloured with terracotta and porcelain slips blended with blue-green stain. Alkaline frit solution and manganese dioxide are also used to enhance surface subtleties and nuances.
The work is fired to 1260ºC in an oxidation atmosphere. My work is predominately wall-based.

Background History

Education:
2012: PhD Ceramics, Cardiff, Metropolitan University, Howard Gardens Campus, Cardiff

2005: MA Ceramics (Distinction part 2), University of Wales Institute Cardiff, Howard Gardens Campus, Cardiff

2003: BA (Hon) Contemporary Applied Arts. 1:1, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Brampton Road, Carlisle, Cumbria

1999: BTEC Diploma: Art and Design, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Brampton Road, Carlisle, Cumbria 

Artists residencies:
Oct 2010: Workshop Leader, 'Exploring the Surface', at De Koploper workshop, Harlebeke, Belgium.
Sept 2008: Artist in Residence, ‘The XXXII International Ceramic Symposium "Porcelain Another Way"’, Walbrzych, Poland.

Teaching Experience:
Oct 11 - current: Associate Lecturer: Postgraduate Certificate in Professional and Research Skills: Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff.

Sept 06 – current: Tutor in Ceramics, OCN Accredited course in Pottery Level 1, Level 2, special needs and mixed ability workshops, Llanover Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff and St Cyres School, Penarth.

March 2009 - 2013: Workshop leader: Research Poster Design, Cardiff Metroploitan University, Cardiff.

Exhibition History

2012: 'Inspire' Walford Mill Crafts, Wimborne and Durlston Castle, Swanage, Dorset.
2012: 'MADE12 Brighton', Corn Exchange, Brighton
2012: 'MADE12 London', One Marylebone, next to Regents Park, London
2012: 'Wells Art Contemporary' exhibition, Wells and Mendip Museum, Wells, Somerset
2012: 'The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair', Spinningfields, Deansgate, Manchester
2012: 'Metamorphosis: Transformations of colour and light', Cow Lane Studios, Salford, Manchester
2012: ''ExLab: Digital Earth by Z. Eastwood-Bloom', (curated shop) Walford Mill Crafts, Dorset
2012: 'One Year On' at The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon (Selected)
2012: 'Upfront Cumbrian Artists Open' Upfront Gallery, Unthank, Penrith, Cumbria

2011: '25 years on, Members Exhibition' Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff
2011: ‘Between the lines’ Llanover Hall Arts Centre (Solo show), Cardiff
2010: ‘Metamorphosis’ Leeds College of Art & Design (Solo show), Leeds
2010: ‘Rufford NPA Selection’ Rufford Craft Centre
2009: ‘Playing with fire’, Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff
2009: ‘Porcelain Another Way’, Municipal Museum of Wroclaw, Poland
2009: ‘MA Ceramics: 25 years’, Howard Gardens Gallery, U.W.I.C. Cardiff

2008: ‘Beyond the Surface’, (Solo show) Oriel Makers Gallery, Cardiff
2008: ‘Porcelain Another Way’, Walbrzych Museum of Art and Design, Poland
2008: ‘Searching Beyond…’, WIRIAD exhibition, Howard Gardens Gallery, U.W.I.C. Cardiff
2008: ‘Earth and Fire’, Rufford Craft Centre, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire
2008: ‘Potfest in the Pens’, Penrith, Cumbria
2008: ‘Local Ladies’, Percy House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria
2008: ‘Designer Crafts 2008’ Mall Galleries, London
2007: ‘Potfest in the Pens’, Penrith, Cumbria
2007: ‘Potfest Scotland’, Perth, Scotland
2007: ‘Ceramic Futures’, Draw International, Caylus, France
2007: ‘The Continuous Thread’, Culross Gallery, Culross, Scotland
2007: ‘Designer Crafts 2007’, Mall Galleries, London
2006-07: ‘Alison Graham Ceramics’, Merienda Coffee Shop, Cockermouth, Cumbria

2006: ‘British Crafts’, Chiswick Town Hall, London
2006: ‘Potfest in the Pens’, Penrith, Cumbria
2006: ‘Potfest in the Peak’, Bakewell, Derbyshire
2006: ‘Designer Crafts @ Chelsea’, Chelsea Town Hall, London
2006: ‘Freshly Fired Biscuit’, Northern Potters Exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2006: ‘Designer Crafts 2006’, Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries, London
2005: ‘Northern Fire’ Northern Potters Exhibition, OXO Tower, Southbank, London
2005: ‘MA exhibition’, U.W.I.C. Howard Gardens Campus, Cardiff

Awards

2006-09: AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Doctoral Award Scheme

2008: Wales Arts International Bursary to participate in ‘The XXXII International Ceramic Symposium, "Porcelain Another Way"’ symposium in Poland, Arts Council of Wales, Cardiff

2008: ‘Research Student Poster Competition’ (Second Prize), WIRIAD, U.W.I.C. Cardiff

2004-05: AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Board) Professional Preparation Master's Scheme Award

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Ceramics by Alison Graham at Studiopottery.co.uk - Heart Strings. 2010. Ceramics by Alison Graham at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2013. Storm
Ceramics by Alison Graham at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2013. Lanterns Ceramics by Alison Graham at Studiopottery.co.uk - 2008.

Contact Details

Studio Address: Studio 5, Inkspot Arts & Crafts Limited, The Old Church, Newport Road, Roath, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, CF24 1PU.
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Telephone: +44(0)7967 740 494
Email:
Web-site: www.aligrahamceramics.moonfruit.com


Joined on: 2008-05-27
Last Updated: 2013-01-24

Events featuring this potter

National Museum of Wales : Alison Graham
April 01, 2013 to June 30, 2013

DRAWinternational : Alison Graham - Solo Exhibition
July 15, 2013 to August 18, 2013

Work styles:

Porcelain
Paper Clay
Sgraffito
Rawglazing
Painterly
Landscape
Oxidation
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