School of Art

Contact Details

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:

Iain Barber

Born: c.1950, Ireland

Ceramicist. Born in Ireland, Barber became interested in African ceramics when he worked as a teacher of mathematics in Zambia. On returning to Ireland he began to explore early Celtic, Neolithic and Bronze Age ceramics that he was able to study in museums. This historical and technical research inspired him to make and fire replicas, some quite large. Most of his contemporary work is influenced by the technique and feeling of early ceramics. He was a guest demonstrator at the International Potters Festival Aberystwyth in 1993 where he recreated pit firings. The pots were coiled, burnished, decorated with simple markings and fired in a bonfire with wood and straw.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

'Early Bronze Age pot' C1294 Ceramics

Druid form C2103 Ceramics

Early Bronze Age Pot C1295 Ceramics

Early Bronze Age Pot C1296 Ceramics




 
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