Annabel Faraday
Work details
I make illustrated stoneware vessels which explore a sense of place. I am fascinated
with maps and their relationship with landscape, earth and clay. My newer work
brings together Victorian maps on the inner surfaces and collaged images from my
own photographs of contemporary street art/graffiti on the outside, exploring the
interplay of constraint and spontaneity, history and modernity.
The forms of the vessels retain a simplicity which provides a canvas for the rich surface imagery.
Instead of applying transfers to a ready-made pot, I print before I construct the
vessel, using a printing method developed over several years and utilising both
sides of the unfired flat sheet of clay, which Ive painted with coloured slips. The
pots are then hand-built, and fired to 1180 degrees, producing a slightly raised
metalicised image which forms an integral part of the ceramic body.
I have copyright permission from the publishers whose maps I reproduce.
I welcome commissions.
Education
Attended Winchester School of Art and Croydon College of Art in the late 1960s.
Subsequently B.A.(Hons) in Sociology and a PhD at Essex University. Completed
Fine and Applied Arts (Ceramics) course at the City Lit, London in 1991.
Outlets
I sell through shops and galleries and by commission. My work has featured in Time
Out London, Time Out Shopping Guide, Metro, Elle Decoration and Grand Designs
and has been presented on ITV by Eric Knowles of Bonhams Ceramics Department
and the Antiques Roadshow.
Exhibitions
Clay, Spray, Decay:(solo show) StArt Space, 150 Columbia Road, London E27RG.
3rd - 20th Aug 2006.
St Ives Ceramics 1 Fish Street, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1LT. Sept 2006 onwards.
hArt 2006: Galanthus Gallery, Wormbridge, Hereford HR2 9DH, 9th Sept-10th Oct.
Ceramics in the City 2006: Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Road, London E2
8EA. 22-24 Sept 2006.
Affordable Art Fair: Battersea Park, London 19 -22 October 2006 (via StArt Space)
Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire S80 3LW. Nov-Dec 2006.
The Gallery at Bevere, Bevere Lane, Worcester WR3 7RQ. February 2007.
current
StArt, 150 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG
Beverley Knowles Fine Art 88 Bevington Road. London W10 5TW
Fibre and Clay, 34a Kings Street, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6DW.
Mid Cornwall Galleries, St Blazey Gate, Par, Cornwall, PL24 2EG.
Spectrum Gallery, Maengwyn Street, Machynlleth, Powys SY20 8EB.
Dashwood Galleries, Calgary AB, Canada T2P 0W4
ReForm School, 2201 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026, USA.
previous Earth and Fire. Rufford Craft Centre: 24-25 June 2006
Cabot Square Showcases, Canary Wharf, London Docklands: April-May 2006
Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London SW7 2EU : 3-5 March 2006
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 3AB 2005 - 2006
Chair, Westbourne Grove, London W2 5RU 2005 -2006
Rochester Craft Case, Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, Kent MEl 1 LX : 2005-2006
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London (via StArt) : October 2005
Broadway Ceramics, London E8 4PH : 2003-2005
London Design Festival, Zetter Rooms, London EC1M 5RJ : 2005
Geffrye Museum (Ceramics in the City), London E2 8EA : 2002. 2003, 2005
England and Co, London W1l 2RH : 2003, 2004
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London N1 OQH : 2003,2004
lslington Art and Design Fair, London EC1V 1N0 : 2004
Jelly Leggd Chicken Gallery, Reading, Berks RG1 2AG : 1995 - 2004
Mile End Arts Pavilion (Hidden Art), London E3 : 2003, 2004
Archway Ceramics, London E3 4AG : 2003. 2004
Stanfords Maps, Drury Lane, London WC2 9LP : 2001, 2004
London Chamber of Commerce, London EC4R lAP : 2003
Artichoke Gallery, Burwash, East Sussex TN19 7ET : 2003
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 7PA : 2003
Budge and Coward, London E2 OQN : 2002, 2003
Halo Gallery, York Y031 7E0 : 2002 -2003
Brewery Arts, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 1JH : 2002
Pam Schomberg Gallery, Colchester, Essex CO2 7AN : 2001
Artmonsky Gallery, London NW8 ORH : 2001
Blue Lias Gallery, Lyme Regis. Dorset DT7 3PY : 2001
Mount House Gallery, Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 1PA : 2001
New Ceramics (Exhibition) Bolt Court. London EC4A 3D0 : 2000
Goring Mill Gallery, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire RG8 9AD : 2000
Bluestone Gallery. Devizes. Wiltshire SN1O 1AT : 2000
Out of the Blue Gallery, Marazion, Cornwall TR17 OAF : 2000
Marcos and Trump, London E2 7RG : 1997
I am a member of the Crafts Potters Association and Hidden Art.