Our spring exhibition opens next weekend - PV on the Friday 30th and continuing on the Saturday, so look out for more details in the next few days, we have some fantastic work in the show. But in the mean time if you haven’t had a chance to see Ian Gregorey’s work in our current show then this week is your last chance to see one of the UK’s most well regarded and interesting sculptors.

I make heads and faces. Some people have great faces on the first look; other people’s faces grow on me.  Some faces have a particularly interesting composition or outline. Faces are surprisingly different and I like the sensation of change that I get when I look from one face to another. Lived in faces hold more of a fascination for me than the sparsely populated faces of perfection. There’s no one place that I start, each piece of work is an amalgamation of influences - people I meet, faces in print, previous works, sketches and drawings. Narrative is significant; I collect words, sayings and pieces of conversations, quotes, poetry and the wording of adverts.  It all goes into the work, either conspicuously as a title or as an idea when I’m planning the piece. Some days I have all these things in my head when I sit down to work. Other days I start with no particular intention and just see who or what emerges from the clay.

Education:

1993 BA(Hons) Graphic Design/ Illustration, Bath Spa University.

2006 MA Ceramics, University Wales Institute Cardiff

Awards:

Crafts Council ‘Next Move’ Award

Arts Council Grants for the Arts

Collections:

Ceramic Collection and Archive, Aberystwyth University.

 

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