School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Sarah Noel

Born: 1961, UK, Wales, Swansea, Mumbles

Ceramicist. Sarah Noël completed a foundation course in Swansea and studied ceramics (BA Hons) at the University of the West of England, Bristol where she initially made raku-fired animal figures. In 1991 she took an MA in Ceramics at the Royal College of Art along with her sister Anna. Together they had an exhibition as part of the Ceramic Series at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 1993.

Sarah is influenced by the sea, the circus and later the medieval figurative wood and stone carvings of areas such as Brittany, as well as European and American folk art. She uses slab-building techniques, sometimes making male and female figures out of cylinders of clay to create stylised forms occupying boats or playing instruments under trees. She decorates her work with washes of oxides, stains or slips, as well as occasionally smoke firing her work.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Plaque - Stage with dancer] C1101 Ceramics




 
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