Maggie’s work specialised in the use of Porcelain, creating fine intricate pieces that reflected her interest in landscape and nature. The forms used were bowls vases and other vessel formats that promote 3Dimensional vistas and two sided pieces. These reflected those unexpected instances that were experienced in the natural environment within both rural and coastal areas of Wales and the Wye Valley (Tintern)New Forest(No Man’s Land) UK
Since the Covid outbreak and currently resident in Brisbane QLD I have been able to explore and test out the porcelain clays available in Australia.This research has led to a new departure in my studio practice initially in the combination of black and white clays and more vibrant colour as I become more immersed in the Queensland contrasting landscape and the light upon it. Engaging in the diversity of is new experienced landscape the recent work embraces contrasts of control and chance within in its making. The surface built up and transformed through multiple layers of porcelain and black clays and porcelains clay infused with ceramic pigments. The work is in flux held with the vessel,” cauldron” like retaining the ceramic magma.The process begins to reveal its own language, determined in part, by chance as the vessel is formed from its grounding to its edge and continuing within its interior.
Maggie Andrews (BA Hons)
GALLERY
Contact details
Name Maggie Andrews Porcelain
Contact numbers: +61(0)491636758
e-mail : maggie.andrews1@hotmail.com
Blog www.maggieandrewsporcelain.com
Education
Course date institution
BA(Hons.)Ceramics 1975 Cardiff School of Art and Design
Foundation 1972 Cardiff School of Art and Design
Professional experience
Maggie Andrews studied at the College of Art and Design Cardiff 1972-1975 and having gained her BA degree and set up her first studio in 1975. She received an Arts Council Wales Fellowship in 1981 and relocated her studio in Cowbridge in 1984 to the present time.
From a series of work first exhibited in the National Museum of Wales(Cardiff) at the conclusion of an Welsh Arts Council Research Fellowship(Ceramics Department, Cardiff School of Art and Design);using Porcelain in variable atmospheric conditions led to the innovative adoption of a firing reduction process associated with RAKU and not normally with the material of porcelain.
Maggie Andrews work has been extensively exhibited throughout her career both nationally and internationally and is included in private and public collections and referenced and included in publications.
‘The Encyclopaedia of British Porcelain Makers G.Godden ;
Potter’s Dictionary F.and J. Hamer;
British Studio Potters Marks Eric Yates Owen and Robert Fournier
Studio Porcelain Peter Lane
Exhibitions
1975-1980
Charleston Manor Sussex
Craftsman Potters Association London ‘Contemporary Ceramics in Wales’
Studio 1 Hampstead London
Casson Gallery London
Dragonfly Gallery Barnes London
Mignon Gallery Bath ‘John Makepeace Furniture & Maggie Andrews Porcelain’
Dartington Crafts Centre
Anno Domini Leeds
Artisan Cardiff
Galerie Inge Donath Dusseldorf Germany
Newport Art Gallery
Oriel Gallery Cardiff Welsh Arts Council
1981-1990
Image of Sarasota’ Gallery Sarosota ‘British Ceramicists’
Ladygate Gallery Beverley E. Yorkshire
Royal Academy Bristol
Cheltenham Gallery The Parade Cheltenham.
Kado Ceramic Gestecke Hamburg ‘Japanese Forms and techniques in Contemporary European Pottery’
Biennale Internationale de Ceramique D’Art Vallauris France
Frobel Institute Frechen Museum Germany
National Museum of Wales Cardiff
Arts in Action Atlantic College St Donats Vale of Glamorgan
1991-2000
Rye Art Gallery Trust Rye Sussex.
W2 Brecon
Oriel-Y-Felin Trefin
Ginger Gallery Bristol
Welsh Artist of the Year St David’s Hall Cardiff
Fishguard Gallery Pembroke
Craft in the Bay Cardiff St Donat’s Arts Centre
Rufford Arts Centre
Ceri Richards Art Gallery Uni. Swansea
Llantarnum Grange Arts Centre
Washington Gallery Penarth
Riverside Gallery Chepstow
2001-2017
Tredegar House Newport Contemporary Ceramics
Wessex Gallery Wareham
Gallery Highwayman’s Cambridge
Draw International Caylus France ‘Ceramic Futures’.
Ceri Richards Art Gallery Uni. Swansea
Welsh Artist of the Year St David’s Hall Cardiff
Old Hall Cowbridge
Llantarnum Grange Arts Centre
KusKovu Gallery Prague
2018 to present
“Commune” Museum of Brisbane.
“Elemental” Ceramics Arts Queensland Metcalfe Gallery Brisbane
“Siliceous” Ipswich Art Gallery
Camp Hill Gallery Brisbane
Valencia Museum of Ceramics Marquis de Dos Agnes Palace
Private /Public Collections
Prince Hirohito Japan Ambassador Yamazaki Japan
Museum of Wales
Frechen Museum Germany
Institute Statale D’Arte Castelli Bienalla Collection Vallauris
Private collections
Prince Hirohito Japan
Ambassador Yamazaki Japan
USA Canada Australia New Zealand Italy France Sweden Denamark
Valencia Museum of Ceramics Marquis de Dos Agnas Palace.
Grants / Fellowships
1981 Arts Council of Wales Research Fellowship
Based at the Cardiff School of Art and Design researched into high fired reduction techniques for Porcelain
Reviews/Articles
Ceramic Review
‘The Potters Dictionary’ Frank and Janet Hamer A&C Black
‘Encyclopaedia of British Porcelain Manufacturers’ G.A. Godden FRSA
‘British Studio Potters Marks’ Eric Yates Owen and Robert Fournier A& C Black
‘Studio Porcelain ‘ Peter Lane.
Visiting lectures
Atlantic College .Crafts in Action
Workshop Demonstration
St Davids Hall Cardiff
Foyer Galleries Education Programme
‘Maggie Andrews Porcelain’
Workshop Demonstration and Lecture supported Maggie Andrews Porcelain