THE BREAKER AWARD
We have created an additional award to enable us to make a financial contribution to those whose work and approach we feel captures the same spirit in which Stephanie created her ceramic pieces. This award will be offered on an ad hoc basis, and financial contributions will be limited to a maximum of £500.
LISA JONES
Evidenced through her vividly coloured sculptural pieces and small-scale collections, Lisa’s practice is largely concerned with personal artefacts, objects and their stories. Inspired by institutional display methods, Lisa playfully positions her objects into inter-relational groupings that accrue further meaning.
The Breaker Award will fund an online advanced glazing course, enabling Lisa to deepen her understanding of the complex elemental interactions of the glaze process on a scientific level and apply them creatively. This knowledge will prove invaluable not only to enhance the surface texture and colour of her varied pieces, but also to pass on through teaching.
JANE KING
Jane King's ceramic sculptures combine opposites of form, texture and colour as metaphors for perfection and control versus imperfection and chaos. Her recent ‘Fold series’ works incorporate dramatic folding and collapsing forms as physical metaphors for chaos, something which she is keen to push further to increase the scale and physical presence of the work:
“Throwing enables me to develop objects which have this exciting quality in the round, and in the context of the Covid 19 crisis, these works are an expression of the fear and anxiety experienced by many. The sculptures appear to writhe uncomfortably in their skin; their ‘controlled’ sections of acrylic colour are reduced to small patches within a larger mass of surging forms.”
The Breaker Award funded a 3-day throwing course for Jane at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, to enable her to improve her throwing skills and ultimately throw bigger, taller and more compelling forms.
