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Jane Perryman
Ceramicist

For many years my work has investigated the vessel through traditional techniques of handbuilding, burnishing and smoke firing. My use of the ‘naked clay’ surface without the addition of glaze enables the work to absorb smoke in the black fired pieces or light in the white work. Recently I have developed  ideas which retain  the essence of  timeless vessel forms as well as referencing contemporary urban structures such as buildings, walls and bridges.  This sculptural work explores the ambiguity of internal space between its double walls as well as tension and balance where two forms are placed together. The composite pieces  invite interaction through repositioning into new arrangements and compositions. My work has won awards at the Fletcher Challenge in New Zealand and the World Ceramics Biennale in Korea and is in both public and private collections world wide.

I combine studio work with writing;  Smoke Fired Pottery (1995), Traditional Pottery of India (2000) and Naked Clay (2004)have all been published by A&C Black. My new book Smoke Firing will be published in autumn 2007 by A& C Black.

Techniques
Pieces are handbuilt using slabbing, press moulding & coiling processes. The surface is burnished & bisque fired to 840 centigrade, then sanded and re-fired to 1050centigrade. Clay is a mixture of Porcelain & Stoneware – sometimes mixed with organic material which fires out to give a pitted surface - to be later inlaid with a mixture of lime and oxide. This is followed by smoke firing in a saggar with various resists and combustibles.

Awards
1980 British Council Scholarship to Keramisch Werkcemtrum Holland
1991 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand - Merit.
1996 Eastern Arts Travelling grant to India.
2002 Craft Potters’ Association Charitable Trust  grant  for a new gas kiln.
Commissions East grant to cover expenses for my presentation at the
NCECA conference San Diego  in 2003 together with  research travel to
New Mexico and Native American Pottery.
2005 World Ceramics Biennale Korea, Diploma of Honour

Solo Exhibitions
1987 Leeds City Craft gallery.
1990 Peter Dingley, Aberystwyth Ceramic Series.
1992 Bettles Gallery.Porticus Gallery.
1993 Contemporary Ceramics, London.
1994 Harlequin Gallery, London.
1995 Christies Contemporary Art, Cambridge. Pyramid Gallery, York.      
1997 Kunstforum Kirchberg Switzerland
1998 Contemporary Ceramics, London
2000 Hart Gallery, London
2003 Contemporary Ceramics, London
2004 Bluecoat Display Gallery, Liverpool Byard Art, Canbridge

Selected Recent Exhibitions
2004 Loes & Reiner, Deventer, Netherlands
2005 World Ceramic Biennale, Korea
Carlin Gallery, Paris
Kunstforum Solothurn, Switzerland
Rufford Crafts Centre ‘Naked Clay’
'Meniscus' a collaboration with photographer Graham Murrell at Ronald Pile Gallery, Ely
Naked Clay exhibition Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, Netherlands
2007 Alpha House Gallery

Collections
Icheon World Ceramic Centre Korea
Aberdeen Museum.
Bolton Museum.
Stadtmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany.
Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
British Airways Executive Lounge, Gatwick Airport.
and many private collections in England and abroad.

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