Student Award
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The Student Award is a chance for students to make their project happen at the Festival alongside well known ceramicists such as Elke Sada, Geoff fuller, Kate Malone, Mark Hewitt, Mike Eden and other international guest potters and ceramic artists.
Students are invited to submit proposals for a project that must be linked to ceramics in some way. This could include building a structure, a particular type of kiln or even a performance. The project will take place over the festival weekend. Proposals are welcome from individuals or groups and the project is open to students from abroad as well as the UK.
To Apply:
Applications for the 2013 Student Award will be available from January 2013. For more information please contact Cath Sherrell, Education Officer, Aberystwyth Arts Centre +44 (0) 1970 622888 or email cxs@aber.ac.uk
Student Award 2009 – Serge Sanghera
This year’s winner is Serge Sanghera, recently graduated from Wolverhampton. He makes large
scale wheel thrown vessels, and combines his skill in throwing with his training in two Japanese martial arts; while the leather-hard thrown piece rotates on the wheel, he strikes with a sword using martial arts movements.
The University the Student Award Winner studied at will be presented with a special ceramic piece made by Ashraf Hannah, donated by Studio Pottery, at the opening ceremony.
The Student Award enables a student or recent graduate to complete an interesting project or demonstrate an innovative technique at the Festival. It gives students an opportunity to work alongside respected international ceramists as an invited guest artist.
Student Award 2007 – Heidi Hockenjos, Rosie McConnell, Holly Bell, Nicholas Hardy, Georgie Sworder
Thus year the Student Award winners were a team of Brighton arts graduates who built an interactive clay mushroom village thoughout the festival. The individual structures were made from a mixture of wood, cardboard, chicken wire, paper and recycled junk, covered in clay, and festival visitors wew encourage to add to the structures in any way they wished!
Student Award 2005 – “GreenFire” by Unpacked Theatre Co
One of the aims of the award is to encourage a fresh look at ceramics; an aim which helped the committee decide upon the 2005 Winner.
Unpacked created a series of short performance pieces around the Festival site during the weekend. Using physical theatre, movement, puppetry and animation techniques, they explored relationships between ceramic pieces and human bodies, their common fragilities and possibilities of transformation.