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:

Wilfred Norton

Born: 1880   Died: 1973   Active: 1920-1935

Ceramicist. Norton was apprenticed to the Coalport Porcelain Company aged 13 and continued to work as a designer for them in later years. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, completing in 1921, and taught figure drawing at Camberwell School of Art. He and his wife, Lily Norton, worked together at ‘Kerama Studios’ in Hampstead, London where they produced small figurative sculptural pieces which were exhibited widely in London. Their work is mentioned in reviews in ‘The Studio’ of the late 1920s.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Earthbound Man C476 Ceramics

Into Whose Heart C475 Ceramics

Jeunesse C478 Ceramics

Mother and Child C473 Ceramics

Mother and Child C474 Ceramics

The Becoming 'I am' C477 Ceramics

Water Sprite C479 Ceramics




 
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