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:

Rupert Spira

Born: 1960, UK, England, London

Ceramicist. Spira studied at West Surrey College of Art and Design under Henry Hammond (1978-80). For the next two years he was apprenticed at Wenford Bridge Pottery, becoming one of the last potters to train under Michael Cardew, whose work he had witnessed at a retrospective exhibition in 1975.

He made studies from museum collections and became interested in form and conscious reactions to form. In 1984 he set up a studio at Lower Froyle, Hampshire, moving to Church Farm, Shropshire in 1996. In 2004 Spira began to combine ceramic vessels with incised poetic texts.

After thirty years working as a ceramic artist and exhibiting worldwide, Spira closed his ceramics studio in 2011 and devoted his time to his other lifelong interest in spiritual teaching.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Bowl] C1546 Ceramics

[Dinner plate] C1544 Ceramics

[Side plate] C1545 Ceramics




 
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