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Bowl; Dish


Collection: Gray's School of Art Ceramics Collection; Gray's School of Art Collection
Object Type: Ceramics; Three Dimensional Form
Artist/Maker: Hall, Morgen
Date: 1982-1983
Media/Materials: terracotta
Dimensions: overall: 4.1 cm x 13.3 cm x 18.9 cm

Description:

Wood-fired terracotta bowl with terrasigulata glaze. Includes a matching ladle.

Prior to attending Gray's School of Art Morgen worked for Brian Shand at Portsoy Pottery. This gave her an introduction to and a love of hand throwing. During her studies at Gray's, she experimented with numerous processes which interested her including salt-glazed stoneware and porcelain to burnished and pit fired earthenware. On graduating she was accepted for an MA Postgraduate degree in Cardiff where she concentrated on developing a range of thrown domestic tagbleware. Throughout her time at college, she became totally involved with the disciplineand during summer vacations worked again at Portsoy, Crathes and Appin potteries.


In the early 1980s Morgen attended Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. From there she went to Wales in 1983 to study for her MA Ceramics degree in what was then the Faculty of Art and Design at Cardiff Institute of Higher Education (now Cardiff Metropolitan University). After her MA she began to exhibit widely, producing work from her studio at the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. She soon had work accepted for shows in the Barbican Centre and Liberty, London, and for three years running in the early 1990s she showed at Chelsea Crafts Fair, with great success. At the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales she won first prize in the domestic pottery section in 1986, 1987 and 1988, and again in 1990, when she was also awarded the Craft Masterpiece gold medal. In 2005 she won the Creative Wales Award, which enabled her to pursue her interest in new technology. She combined this effortlessly with traditional handcraft techniques.

1998 - 2001 Senior Research Fellow for Ceramic Practice,

University of Wales Institute Cardiff

1989 - 1998 Part time, Ceramics Dept., Bath Spa Univ. Faculty of Art & Design

1988 - 1989 Part time, 3D course, Carmarthen Arts College
Object Number: ABDRG10905