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:

Rita Ternes

Born: 1955, Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Neuwied

Ceramicist. Ternes studied at the State Technical School for Ceramic Design in Höhr Grenzhausen (1978-81). Her early vessels were loosely related to functional forms, but she later made pieces that were more freely sculptural. After 1982 she shared a workshop with Thomas Naethe and moved with him to live in a self-restored, remote village railway station.

Ternes uses stoneware to make the forms, which are reduction fired in a gas kiln. She has developed a method of making which has affinities with dressmaking, in which the forms are created by cutting them out like a paper pattern and assembling them into the 3-dimensional form. The meticulous angular sculptures are painstakingly painted with bold stripes and geometric patterns which echo the geometry of the form.

Ternes’ work has been shown in exhibitions in Italy and Germany, and in major museum collections in Germany. In 1990 she appeared at the Northern Potters Camp where the piece in the Aberystwyth collection was purchased.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Schale (shell/dish) C1173 Ceramics




 
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