Claire Loder

Ceramics Sculpture

Claire Loder makes ceramic heads and faces. Narrative is a significant aspect of her work: words, sayings and pieces of conversations, quotes, poetry and the wording of adverts all go into her work, either conspicuously, as a title, or simply as an idea. There's no one starting place for a piece of work, each is an amalgamation of influences – people she meets, faces in print, or in previous works, sketches and drawings.

Education: 1993 BA(Hons) Graphic Design & Illustration, Bath Spa University. 2006 MA Ceramics, University Wales Institute Cardiff. Awards: Arts Council Grants for the arts Crafts Council. Residencies: at Bath Spa University. Exhibitions: 2008, Ceramic Art London, RCA, London; 2009, Two Ways About It, The Brownston Gallery, Modbury, Devon; Must Have More, Aspex, Portsmouth; Get Fresh, The Devon Guild; In The Window, The Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool; Origin, Somerset House, London; 2010, European Makers Gallery, Amsterdam; ; A collection of work for the new CPA Contemporary Ceramics Gallery, Great Russell Street, London; 2011, Look Sea, The New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives.

Some people have great faces on the first look; other people's faces grow on me. Some faces have a particularly interesting composition or outline. Faces are surprisingly different and I like the sensation of change that I get when I look from one face to another. Lived in faces hold more of a fascination for me than the sparsely populated faces of perfection.