Edith Garcia

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• MPhil

  School

  School of Humanities

  Programme

  Ceramics & Glass, 2011–2012

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• How is it possible that civilisation has a global understanding of the abstraction of the human form? At a subconscious level as humans, we have the ability to find the form of the body in the most minimal of shapes, objects and even natural phenomena. In this research I have focused on variations, from realistic representations of the human form to abstraction. I have broken it down into its basic elements to explore at what point our visual language allows us to recognise and define a shape or an object as being influenced by, or connected to, the human form.


• Degrees

• MA, Ceramics, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA, 2004; BA (Hons), Sculpture, Minneapolis College of Art Design, USA, 1998

• Experience

• Author: Ceramics and the Human Figure, A&C Black Publishing, London, 2010-11; Visiting artist/guest lecturer, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2011; Artist-in-residence, Leon School and Sports College, Milton Keynes, 2010-11; Guest curator (Contemporary Monsters), Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, USA, 2009

• Exhibitions

• NCECA Biennial, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA, 2011; From the Center to the Edge, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT, USA, 2011; Celebrating the Human Form in Clay, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, USA, 2010; Project Space (with Andrew Lord), Milton Keynes Gallery, 2010

• Awards

• Winner, McKnight Fellowship (from Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, USA), 2006; Winner, Craft Council Development Award, 2005