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Shortlisted for Guildford House Open Art Prize, with ‘Still Life 2’ featured in exhibition 28 November 2024 - 1 March 2025
New work featured in ‘Two Worlds’ at Gallery at Home, 16 November - 16 December 2024 galleryathome.co.uk
Selected Graduate Member, Design Nation, November 2024
MA Ceramics, Cardiff School of Art and Design, November 2024
Chloe is an artist specialising in hand-thrown pieces, with a focus on the vessel form, texture and surface decoration. She recently graduated with Distinction in her Masters in Ceramics from Cardiff School of Art and Design, where she studied under the renowned tutor Claire Curneen. Previously she had worked as a functional potter for 10 years, building up a client base of individuals and restaurants.
Her vessels are made using stoneware clay, that start off on the potter’s wheel, and are then altered to allow further manipulation of the clay, and to create new forms. The transformation continues through mark-making, using a variety of techniques to create texture, followed by the application of slips in a painterly manner, to infuse each piece with a natural and serene quality. Some of the pieces are burnished and polished to achieve a particular sheen, but her works are left unglazed to preserve the integrity and tactility of the material.
She explores the beauty in both the process of creation and the finished piece, where the quiet labour and unique character of the materials are evident in every object, with textures and details that emerge and shift with changing light. By stripping away function and colour to focus on form, surface and texture, she creates pieces that evoke a sense of stillness, much like a still life painting.
The wall postcards, made with different types of stoneware clay, each carry a unique design, capturing fleeting moments of time, with textures that evoke the essence of the natural world. Each piece is a testament to the continuity of her process, where one creation leads to another, reflecting a journey of exploration, connection and play.
Chloe is a Graduate Member of Design Nation.
Previous clients of her functional work include Michelin-starred restaurant Askham Hall in Cumbria and The Gaff in Abergavenny, alongside galleries such as Gallery at Home in Monmouthshire, Irving Gallery in Oxford, New Brewery Arts in Cirencester and The Art Shop & Chapel in Abergavenny.
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