Amy Cooper Ceramics

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Exhibitions to Date

2009: Appledore Visual Arts Festival, North Devon.

2008: ‘Art Forms From The Ocean’ The National Glass Centre, Sunderland.

2007: ‘Surreal Things’, V&A Museum shop, London.

2003 - 08: Ceramics In The City The Geffrye Museum, London.

2003 - 09: Designer Crafts, Mall Galleries, London.

2002 - 09: Art in Clay, Hatfield House, Herts.

2006 - 07: Origin, Somerset House, Strand, London,

2006: Internationale Kerameik Biennale, Brasschaat, Belgium

2005: First Sight Craft Showcase, Hove Museum and Art gallery.

2005: Wish List, The Devon Guild Of Craftsmen.

2004:Empty, An Tuireann Arts Centre, Isle of Skye.

2004:Keramiek door Delft (Ceramics through Delft) 2004, Delft, Netherlands

2004: Light, Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire.

2003: Talente, Munich, Germany.

2003: Setting Out, Contemporary Ceramics Gallery, London.

2002: Young, Gifted and Broke, Artifex, Sutton Coldfield.

Awards

2007: Craftsman Magazine Award, Select British 2007.

2006: Awarded Fellowship of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.

2004: WOW Award, British Craft Trade Fair.

2002: Selected for The Craft Potters Association Setting Out Exhibition.

2002: Craftsman Magazine Student Award, Art in Clay 2002.

2002: The Caparo Award for Creative Enterprise.

2002: The Craftline (Ceramics) Prize.

Publications

2009: Easy Living Magazine, April issue, ‘In the Know’.

2007: The Independent, 5^th September, ‘That Seventies Show’.

2007: Craft and Design Issue 192 ’Win Win Situation’

2007: a-n Magazine June issue, ‘Good Practice’.

2007: The Guardian ‘Weekend’ Magazine, 10^th February.

2006: The Times Magazine 2nd December, ‘The Ethical Gift Guide’.

2006: The Telegraph Magazine 30th September, ‘Shop Talk’.

2006: Ceramic Review #221, ‘A Grand Bazaar’.

2006: Ceramics & Mixed Media by Joy Bosworth, A&C Black.

2006: You Magazine, The Mail on Sunday, 18th June .

2006: Grand Designs Magazine, May 2006, ‘Briefing: Open House in Brighton’.

2006: Gift Focus Magazine, March/April 2006, Silver Celebrations BCTF.

2005: Art Monthly, April edition exhibition reviews, ‘Urban Bodies’.

2004: The Times, 6th November.

2004: The Independent, ‘Take It Home’, 3rd November.

2004: The Craftsman Magazine, July issue.

2003: ‘Signpost: The New Graduates Guide To Being An Artist’, [a-n] supplement.

2002: The Craftsman Magazine, December issue.

2002: Ceramic Review # 198 ‘Art School 2002’ and ‘Awayday’.

2002: Ceramics in Society # 49, ‘The New Designers’.

2001: British Museum Magazine, Autumn/Winter issue, ‘ New ways of looking at old pots’.

2001: The Column (British Museum newsletter) April issue, ‘Harry the Potter?’.

Education

2002 B.A.(First Class Honours) in Art and Design,(Ceramics and Sculpture), University of Wolverhampton.

1999 B.T.E.C. Foundation in Art and Design Certificate, Falmouth School of Art and Design, Cornwall.

Artists Statement

Through my porcelain work I examine scale, detail and energy, creating organic forms for subtle illumination.

My pieces are largely inspired by natural spaces and objects, I am intrigued by the endless variations in nature and the idea of an ongoing evolutionary process of adaptation. I am a coast dweller by choice and gather visual information from the precious things the sea offers up to us; the minutia we don’t usually see to the raw geology of an ocean ravaged cliff-face.

The pieces are slipcast and individually manipulated when they are still soft. Textured glazes, slips and diamond polishing create some unexpected and enticing surfaces. The work is fired in either an electric or gas kiln to create various colours of translucency in the finished pieces.

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