School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Peter Smith

Born: 1941, UK, England, Bristol

Ceramicist. Smith originally trained as a research chemist and continued to work in this field while attending evening classes in ceramics, run by Robert Fournier at the Chaucer Institute in South London. In 1974 he started his own pottery, Bojewyan, in Cornwall, where he continues to work making sculpture as well as ceramics in a coal-burning kiln of a unique design.

While some of Smith’s work, made in earthenware, is fired and decorated with slip, some is left unfired as he seeks to preserve the basic shapes and tactile characteristics of coils, blocks and wedges found on any potter’s bench. Their stability is maintained through the addition of cement.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

'Jug of Clay' C1067 Ceramics

[Large Jug] C1065 Ceramics

[Small Jug] C1066 Ceramics




 
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