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Tel: 0033 (0)466 75 03 85 Email: Web: www.dragonceramic.com

Artist's Statement

I make ceramic sculpture which originally developed out of handbuilt vessel forms in torsion (which I also still continue to make). I�m interested in the expressive potential of the relation between different elements in the sculpture. Some involve more or less separate parts, interlocking or interlaced, and sometimes in precarious equilibrium; the most recent involve an opening and spilling out from an internal space. I think about these relationships in terms of fluid metaphors for psychic relationships, internal worlds, personal spaces.

Current Work

Reduction fired sculpture in a variety of different stonewares, also smaller pieces, raku or smoke-fired. For exhibition or on commission.

Work Available from:
Direct from the studio. Selection on show in space adjacent to studio. The smaller pieces can be posted, or transported back to London when I visit (about every couple of months).
Also available currently at Galerie Arth�, 30330 Gaujac, Gard, France and other local venues.

2012 - Raku pottery and sculptural ceramics courses (June - September) - see below right for courses available

Technical Information

The larger sculptural pieces are reduction fired to around 1200-1240 centigrade in a gas kiln. I often use barium glazes for a stony finish, and I may rework the glaze and refire several times.
I also use a smaller electric kiln, an improvised raku kiln with pulleys, and dustbins for smoke-firing. (I use grogged and burnished porcelain for smoke firing.)

Career Background

As an art historian I taught for 20 years at St.Martin�s School of Art (later Central St.Martin�s, the University of the Arts London) which involved studio teaching as well as theory.� It was in the 1990s after retraining as a psychotherapist that I took up pottery. I moved to France in 2003 to commit myself full time to ceramics.

Exhibition History

2010 Dec: Solo show, Au Revoir les livres? Le Livre dans la Peau, St.Quentin-la-Poterie, Gard, France
2010 July-Dec: Voyages, Galerie Arth�, Gaujac, Gard, France
2009-10 Dec-Jan: Le Livre dans tous ses Etats, Galerie Arth�, Gaujac, Gard, France
2009 July: Selected for Terralha 2009, 3rd European Festival of Ceramic Arts, St.Quentin-la-Poterie, Gard, France
2008� June:� Tour Ribas, St.Laurent des Arbres, Gard, France
2008 May: Guest of honour, Salon des Arts, St.Laurent des Arbres
2007-8 Dec.-May: Galerie Arth�, Gaujac, Gard, France
2006 July.� Festival Europ�en des Arts C�ramiques,�� St.Quentin-la-Poterie, Gard, France

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Ceramics by Caroline Fawkes at Studiopottery.co.uk - home

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Contact Details

Studio Address: Plan du Four, Vallabrix, Gard, France, 30700.

Telephone: 0033 (0)466 75 03 85
Email:
Web-site: www.dragonceramic.com

Availability: Normally available mornings and late afternoon/evening. Best to phone first. Studio Location: Vallabrix, in the old village centre, between Mairie and church. 5 mins. from St.Quentin-la-Poterie (major ceramics centre) 10 mins from Uz�s (mediaeval hill town) 40 mins N�mes and Avignon

Joined on: 2008-02-26
Last Updated: 2013-02-06