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:

Nic Collins

Born: 1958, UK, England, Warwickshire, Leamington Spa

Ceramicist. After training at Derby College of Art (1985-86) Collins widened his experience by working as a thrower in potteries in Italy and Germany. In 1998 he moved to Devon and set up his first workshop at Powdermills and in 2000 moved to Moretonhamstead. He responded to the wild rural environment by making pots often with locally sourced clay and wood firing techniques.

Collins is influenced by older pottery traditions and kilns as well as adaptations and experiments to create contemporary work. He is part of a group of experimental wood-firers including the potters Clive bowen and Svend Bayer who sometimes assist at each other’s kiln firings. These are lengthy and laborious events, involving friends working in six-hour shifts, lasting up to 80 hours and firing to temperatures of 1,300 degrees centigrade.

Collins is passionate about the effects achieved by different clays, ash and shino glazes and multiple firings to create varied surface textures. At the 2005 International Ceramics Festival he built an experimental anagama kiln over two days and then fired it over three days.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

'Shino Bottle' C1466 Ceramics




 
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