Ceramic Showcase
Lowri Davies

5th February - 30th April 2005
Lowri Davies was born in Pontypridd in 1978 and was brought up in Aberystwyth. Since graduating from Cardiff School of Art in 2001, Lowri Davies has been awarded a setting up grant by The Arts Council of Wales and has won The Young Artist Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod, both in the same year. Lowri has been a member of Fireworks Clay Studios in Cardiff since August 2003.

Lowri Davies' Welsh heritage is a major source of inspiration. Using both hand-built and slip-cast processes and techniques she makes pretty jugs, cups and objects that are decorated with her own illustrations of flowers, domestic objects and Welsh stock imagery. This quaint work particularly stems from references to china displays on Welsh dressers and ceramic souvenirs.

Her hand-built technique is created using porcelain clay and is formed by pressing small samples of clay in to an etched plaster surface and brought together on a plaster 'hump'. She uses the term 'patchwork' to describe this technique due to the way the pieces are assembled. She also adds simple transfers of her illustrations to these pieces. She uses a white earthenware slip for her slip-cast pieces, which acts as an ideal surface for her illustrations, which are applied using industrial transfers.

This showcase is not to be missed and makes a wonderful accompaniment to the 'Wedding Belles' exhibition.

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