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Student Showcase Archive

Stuart Allen

MA work

MA work

  • turmoil 1

    turmoil 1, Stuart Allen 2018
    ceramic
    15cm x 15cm | Photographer: Stuart Allen

  • collection

    collection, Stuart Allen 2018
    ceramic
    15cm x 15cm to15cm x 20cm | Photographer: Stuart Allen

  • conical 1

    conical 1, Stuart Allen 2018
    ceramic
    45cm x 30cm | Photographer: Stuart Allen

  • porcelain burst

    porcelain burst, Stuart Allen 2018
    ceramic
    10cm x6cm | Photographer: Stuart Allen

The soft clay is manipulated and attached inside a firmer outer wall. Once the piece is fired the outside surface is ground and polished. Like an eroding landscape open to the elements, the edge is refined and reduced as the inside and outside merge.

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Arts & Humanities

    Programme

    MA Ceramics & Glass, 2018

  • I have been exploring different ways of using the wheel.

    The soft and expressive malleability of the clay material is evident like a dramatic fantastical landscape frozen in time. 

    The process of erosion further impacts on the scale of the piece but this process helps clarify the intensity of the expression.

    It is a way of making which captures the drama of a world in flux; a transition which is simultaneously constructive and destructive.

    Each work is unique as the process doesn't allow for duplication

  • Degrees

  • PGCE, Institute of Education London, 2006; BA Ceramics, Bath College of Higher Education, 1989
  • Experience

  • Ceramics Tutor (sessional), Working Men's College, Camden, London, 2006; Ceramics Tutor, HMP Pentonville, Caladonian Road, London 1997–1999; Ceramics Tutor, Milton Skills Rehabilitation Centre, Highbury, London 1997–1999; Ceramics Tutor,Love Walk Care Home, Camberwell, London 1997–1999; Ceramics Tutor, Holmhurst Day Centre People with Memory Loss Herne Hill, London, 1997–1999; Ceramics Tutor, Castle Day Mental Health Centre, Elephant and Castle, London 1998–1999; Ceramics Tutor, Hammersmith and Fulham Substance Misuse Team, London, 1998; Ceramics Tutor (sessional cover), HMP lifers wing, Brixton, London 1996; Ceramics Tutor, HMP Belmarsh, Thamesmead, London, 1994–1996; Ceramics Tutor, Lambeth Amenity Services, Lambeth, London, 1991–1996; Social Artist, Great George Street, The BlackE, Toxteth, Liverpool 1990–1991; Graduate Assistant, Sidcot Quaker School, Windscombe, Avon,1989–1990
  • Exhibitions

  • Materialise, private residence Preston Fitzgerald, 2018