International Ceramics Festival

Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd July 2011

Potclays Emerging Makers Award

2011 Award Winner: Lisa Young

Lisa Young is a ceramicist and designer whose work deals primarily with the complexities of surface and pattern. Inspired by futuristic architecture and the perfection of computer based and manufactured design, she introduces a softer and more organic approach by hand decorating her ceramic vessels. By exploring the boundaries between the hard edged perfection and the more random organic shapes, she creates designs where the natural world and advancing technology may fuse.

Selected makers for 2011: Imogen Aust, Carys Davies, Kat Livesy, Amy Kennedy and Deanna Lee

Applications for the Emerging Makers Award 2013

What is it?

The Emerging Makers Award is an opportunity for new potters and artists working with clay who have graduated from college within the past five years, to present a Powerpoint slideshow about their practice at the International Ceramics Festival. Six makers will be selected to present their slideshow at the festival, from these six makers two will be chosen to take part in our International Visiting Artist Residency Award. For more information about this please visit the (Emerging Makers Award) page.

The Potclays Emerging Makers Award will be selected during the weekend by the festival customers and will be presented during the closing Ceremony of the Festival.

All six selected applicants will received free entry to the festival (excluding accommodation and subsistence). Successful applicants will be notified prior to the event by email

International Ceramics Festival

Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Penglais, Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion, Wales (UK)
SY23 3DE

Email: sob@aber.ac.uk
Telephone: (+44) 01970 623232
Fax: (+44) 01970 622338

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