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:

Christine Boswijk

Born: 1939, New Zealand, Christchurch

Ceramicist. She makes coiled forms, inspired by landscape and natural forms. She trained at the School of Fine Art, Otago Polytechnic (1977) and the National Art School, East Sydney Technical College (1988). She has lived, worked and taught in New Zealand most of her life. Her recent work conveys something of the multiplicity of social, ecological and geographic influences on the land. White earthenware and terracotta clay (sometimes mixed) is mainly coil-built, patched and laminated. One piece tends to trigger the production of the next but she considers the appearance and perception of each piece very carefully, thus determining colour, texture and robustness of structure. Works shown at Expo 92 in Seville included a primeval forest in a metre square glass box, inviting the fragile surfaces to be inspected at close range. Her work is shown in many solo and group exhibitions, mainly in Australia and New Zealand and is in private and public collections in New Zealand, Australia and other countries. She was a demonstrator at the International Potters Festival at Aberystwyth in 1993

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Bowl] C1301 Ceramics

[Bowl] C1302 Ceramics

[Conical horned form] C1300 Ceramics

[Cylindrical vessel] C1298 Ceramics

[Cylindrical vessel] C1299 Ceramics

Volcanic Pot C1297 Ceramics



 
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