Claire Loder
Ceramics Sculpture
"I make heads and faces
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.
There's no one place that I start, each piece of work is an amalgamation of influences - people I meet, faces in print, previous works, sketches and drawings. Narrative is significant; I collect words, sayings and pieces of conversations, quotes, poetry and the wording of adverts.It all goes into the work, either conspicuously as a title or as an idea when Irquote m planning the piece.Some days I have all these things in my head when I sit down to work. Other days I start with no particular intention and just see who or what emerges from the clayc
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Education
1993 BA(Hons) Graphic Design/ Illustration, Bath Spa University.
2006 MA Ceramics, University Wales Institute Cardiff
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Arts Council Grants for the arts
Crafts Council lquote Next Moverquoteresidency at Bath Spa University
ulSelected previous shows
Ceramic Art London, RCA, London 2008, 2009
lquote Two ways about itrquote , The Brownston Gallery, Modbury, Devon
lquote Must have morerquote , Aspex, Portsmouth
lquote Get Freshrquote , The Devon Guild
lquote In the windowrquote , The Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Origin, Somerset House, London
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Sep 2010 - European Makers Gallery, Amsterdam
Nov 2010 - A collection of work for the new CPA Contemporary Ceramics Gallery, Great Russell Street, London
April 2011 - A collection of heads entitiled Look Sea, The New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives
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