17, Malvern Road
London E8 3LP
(entrance in Middleton Rd - blue double doors)
suewhimster@handlewithcare.co.uk
www.suewhimsterceramics.com
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Based on animals, inspiration comes from East End dogs, children's books, museums and animals observed at the zoo. I am also very influenced by eighteenth and nineteenth century Staffordshire pots.
All the work is hand built in stoneware, using pinch pots for bodies with limbs and details modelled or built up with coils or slabs. After biscuit firing they are painted with a range of under glaze colours, oxides and glazes and then fired to 1220° centigrade.
Education and beyond
I trained as a sculptor at Exeter College of Art, 1967-1970, and after taking a postgraduate teaching certificate I taught at a number of East London secondary schools. I left teaching after my second child and set up a ceramic workshop in 1984, offering classes to adults and children and producing my own work for shops, galleries and private commissions.
Current outlets
Arcadia - 12 Bene't St, Cambridge CB2 3PT
The Art House - Art House 2. 8 East Street, Havant, Hants PO9 1AQ
Bordello - (eggcups only) 55 Old St, London EC1
Eccentrics - www.eccentrics.co.uk
Rivers Gallery - Market St, Nailsworth, Glos.GL6 OBX
Stella Blunt - 45 Broadway Market, London E8 4PH
Webbs Rd. Fine Art - 1 Burland Rd., London SW11 6SA
Saltbox Gallery and Workshop, 2 Castlegate, Helmsley, York YO62 5AB
The Wonderwall Gallery,7 Gosditch Street, Cirencester,Glos.GL7 2AG
Recent Exhibitions
2007 Summer Exhibition - The Haymakers Gallery
2007 Raining Cats and Dogs - The Art House
2008 Crafts Dog Show - Arcadia. Cambridge
2008 Summer Exhibition - Rivers Gallery Nailsworth
Annually - Hidden Art. London. in Sue Whimster's Workshop
This year's Hidden Art: Sat 28th and Sun 29th November 2009 and
the Christmas Sale: Sat 5th and Sun 6th December 2009
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