The Christmas 2007 Prize Draws were won by Mr R. Page and Ms L. Birch (both
received a £50 gift voucher)
The March 2008 Prize Draw for £100 gift voucher was won by
Oliver1972 Surname unknown (as yet unclaimed - please let us have your
address Oliver or we shall have to draw it again)
Please send
us your email address for our mailing list and you will be entered into
our free prize draw for a £100 gift voucher. Or, fill in a form when
you come into the shop. You may enter for each draw once by email and again
by filling in the form in the shop.
If we receive your email, we will add your email
address to our mailing list. There will not be many postal invites to
exhibitions from now on as it has become ridiculously expensive. Instead we
will be offering a free prize draw every exhibition to anyone who comes into
the shop or sends us an email
you may post your email address or email it to
pyramidgallery2008@yahoo.co.uk marking it PRIZE DRAW. We
will send a reply saying 'Thankyou, your details have been entered into the
prize draw'.
Some systems will not let you send an email from
that link, so if it fails, copy the address and insert it into your normal
email message box address, then press send (put your name in the message
first!).
Rules:
1.Only one entry per person
2. No employee of Pyramid Gallery may enter
3. The winning entry will be picked blind from a
hat (or box) by a member of the public at 1pm on 10th May 2008
4. The winner will be notified by email, and the
£100 prize gift voucher will be sent in the post
PAUL SMITH
Red Riding Hood, Ceramic
All Paul Smith’s
ceramic sculptures are unique, hand-built one-offs.
Using a system of rods developed by
Ian Gregory he freely builds the figures, removing
the supports once the clay can withstand it’s own weight.
He has adapted Ian’s
technique by incorporating a solid “back-iron” support. These working
methods allow for free and spontaneous variations on a particular theme,
each piece being unique and subtly different from it’s predecessor.
He sponge-decorates
his work with oxides, stains and glazes. Firing is to 1140 degrees or
above, depending on the nature of the work. All sculptures are
individually signed and dated.
Curriculum
Vitae (2006)
Born:
Northampton 1961
Art Education:
Leicester Polytechnic
1983
2:1 BA(Hons) Fine Art Sculpture
Hertfordshire College of Art and Design
1985
Postgraduate Diploma in Art Therapy
Employment : Employed as a full-time sculptor
1987 -1997
(Stoke on Trent figurine industry)
(I have
worked full time from my own studio since 1998 )
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 June
Cambridge Contemporary Art - “If you go down to the woods
today”
2001 July Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Derbyshire -
“Animalism”
SMALL-GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FEATURED
ARTIST 2006 July Grizzly Tales, Buxton Museum & Art Gallery,
Derbyshire
Showcase of new work as part of the Buxton
Festival Fringe 2006 May/June Gallerytop- Fauna-small group show. Rowsley,
Derbyshire
2003 May
Cambridge Contemporary Art - Featured Ceramicist
2000 Nov
Sanderson, George and Peach, Holmfirth,West Yorkshire Featured Ceramicist in Christmas Show
1999 May Ashbourne Gallery, Derbyshire - 2 Man Show with
painter
Angelo Murphy
ART FAIRS
1999-2006 Glasgow
Art Fair (represented by The Lost Gallery,
April
Aberdeenshire)
2000-2003
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London (The Lost Gallery)
October
2005 March Affordable
Art Fair, Battersea Park, London (represented by
Cambridge Contemporary Art)
CERAMICS FESTIVALS
2004 June Earth and Fire, Rufford, Notts
2004 May Brasschaat Conference and Biennale, Belgium
2003-2004 Gouda,
Netherlands (May)
2003 May Clayart, Denbigh, Wales
2002 May Swalmen, Netherlands
2002 Sep Milsbeek, Netherlands
2000-04/06 Potfest in the Park, Cumbria (July)
2000-2006 Art in Clay, Hatfield House, Herts (August)
AWARDS
Aug 2000 The
Derbyshire Prize at the Derbyshire Open
Nov 2004
Highly Commended in the
Zelli
Porcelain Award
Ben
Arnup has been a self employed ceramicist for 20 years, initially in
Berkshire, moving home to the York area in 1986.
Several gallery
exhibitions are made each year, mostly in England, supplemented in the past
by lecturing for York University, Hull University and at Cyprus College of
Art.
Recent making has
concentrated on geometric forms, especially from Venetian floor designs with
an interest in multiple forms – this feels like a definitive stage for this
type of design.
These objects are made from a variety of
clays, although a grogged porcelain body is preferred, slab constructed,
slip decorated and biscuited to 1000 deg C, then glazed and stoneware
reduction fired to 1200-1290 deg C.
He
has shown his slab built ceramics which feature a transformation of
perspective in many exhibitions in London and abroad as well as at at least
five previous exhibitions at Pyramid Gallery.
(The images
below are recent works, but at time of publication (25 Oct) we are not sure
exactly what will be in the show. We will know a week before the start on
10th November (keep fingers crossed that the kiln performs well between now
and then - it's always a nail biter) and we will put images of the actual
pieces here as soon as we can. At moments like this I just have to tell
myself 'it's better than doing real work' and it is. Sort of. -
Webmaster)
