School of Art

Contact Details

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:

Gillian Lowndes

Born: 1936, UK, England, Cheshire   Died: 2010

Ceramicist. She trained at the Central School of Art (1957-1979), spent a year in Paris (1960) and two years in Nigeria (1971-1972) with her husband, the ceramic artist and specialist in African art, Ian Auld. From 1975 until the early 1990s, she taught part-time at Camberwell and Central St. Martins. Her work had always challenged vessel form but in the mid 1970s she began to develop her mixed media sculpture which incorporates found materials, including substances as varied as wire, cutlery, and loofahs. These are fired along with the clay and become incorporated into the work. The resultant sculptures are intriguing pieces that trail messages of their former constituents but create entirely new objects hanging out from the wall or extending into space like strange skeletal creatures that straddle the divide between organic forms and recycled industrial waste. Her work is represented in many collections in Britain and she has had major shows at the Crafts Council (1987) and Contemporary Applied Arts (1994) and major exhibitions such as The Raw and the Cooked (1993-1994). She lives and works in Essex

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Sculpture] C1359 Ceramics



 
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