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:

Melanie Brown

Born: 1954

Ceramicist. Brown studied ceramics at Bristol (BA Hons.) and Cardiff School of Art (MA). She has had her own studio since 1978 and has exhibited throughout the UK and further afield in Japan, America and Europe.

Brown makes teapots and is fascinated by the three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle that is necessary in order to get the four elements of body, lid, spout, and handle to marry and work together to create the whole. She throws and turns all the work in porcelain, responding to its whiteness and purity contrasting with the vibrant oriental glazes.

The clay is high fired giving it hardness and durability. Even where the groups of pieces are sculptural in content, the integrity of function is part of the aesthetic consideration. The craftsmanship and ergonomic element within each piece can be considered part of their beauty.

Brown received a Creative Wales award from the Arts Council of Wales in 2004 and was selected for the National Eisteddfod in the same year, where she received much critical acclaim. In 2005 she exhibited at SOFA in Chicago with The Gallery at Ruthin Craft Centre, where she had a sell-out show.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Family Potrait C1628 Ceramics




 
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