David Withers

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Humanities

  Programme

  MA Ceramics & Glass, 2012

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  http://www.david-withers.com

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• My work deals with time, movement and space. I try to illustrate movement through time, not by recreating what was there but by having the past occupancy of the space made visible. My work shows an absence, while materialising a thing’s ex-presence by using space as a tool for recording.


  I try to achieve this because I feel there is a lingering time-diluted presence left behind in a used space. I want to capture that space to create something that has a permanency at present that is in partnership with the past.


  Loss plays a large part as I find myself holding onto these potentially lost moments that maybe only I have witnessed. My work becomes the memory and tribute of that time and space.


• Degrees

• BA (Hons), Fine and Applied Art, University of Ulster, 2008; Foundation Art and Design, University of Ulster, 2005

• Experience

• Sales assistant, Goldsmiths, Belfast, 2009–10; Sales assistant, Aurom Group, Belfast, 2008–9

• Exhibitions

• Irish Contempory Ceramics 2011, Mill Cove Gallery, Cork, Ireland, 2011; Static Movement, Whalley Gallery, Belfast, 2010

• Awards

• First prize, Ceramics, Irish Contemporary Ceramics Award, 2011; First prize, Ceramics, Merit Award Third Level Award Scheme, CCOI, 2008; First prize, Ceramics, Carson Macdowell Award, 2008