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Angela Speight
          Born 1988
          Lives and works in Cardiff, Wales
          www.angelaspeight.com
          Angela  Speight’s  work  explores  time,  delicacy
          and detail. Capturing  beautiful moments  that
          only last for a few seconds before they disappear.
          She likes to create a poetic sculpture that
          mesmerises the viewer and intrigues them as to
          the work’s construction.  Her unique skill  has been
          recognised as a mastery of porcelain construction
          on  a  tiny  scale. Working  in  porcelain clay, Angela
          creates miniature universes of pure perfection
          with therapeutic  qualities  such  as harmony  of
          form,  artistic vision and a skill that  are  rare  to
          fi nd nowadays.

          The process of her work requires close observation.
          Each  section  of  the  dandelion  seed  is  made  in
          fragments and constructed after the fi ring processes.
          The fragments are fi red at 1300 degrees. No tools are
          used in the process just the artists hands.
          Speight  plays with  the  theme  of  vision and  the
          mysterious  notion  that  you  can  see something
          tangible whilst it simultaneously appears invisible.
          Modelling in miniature scale she aims to capture the
          sudden  fl eeting  movement  as  a  dandelion  looses
          its seeds, each movement creating new images
          allowing it to become permanent in our vision.


          ANGELA SPEIGHT graduated with BA (Hons) Ceramics from
          the University of Wales Institute (2010) and has since exhibited
          her work in a number of group exhibitions including; Young
          Masters Art  Prize,  London,  shortlisted  for  the  Maylis Grand
          Ceramic Prize  (2014),  7th Cheongju  International  Craft
          Biennial, Cheongju,  Korea  (2011), British Ceramic  Biennial,
          Stoke  on Trent,  UK  (2011),  Resilience, Llantarnam Grange,
          Cardiff,  UK  (2011), Designer  Crafts  at  the  Mall Galleries,
          London,  UK  (2010),  Made  by  Hand,  Newport,  Cardiff,  UK
          (2010), Hand in Glove, Bristol, UK (2010). Speights work has
          been featured in a number of publications, including; Crafts
          - the magazine of contemporary craft (Nov/Dec 2010) and
          Venue - Bath and Bristol magazine (Sept/Oct 2010),  and
          has carried out a number of residencies; at Firework studios,
          Cardiff, UK (2010) and the International Ceramic Research
          Centre  at Guldagergaard,  Denmark (2011).  In 2011  she
          received an Hounourable Mention at the 7th International
          Ceramics Biennial, Cheongju, Korea.

                                                       Above: Lover of loneliness and wondering, 2010, Porcelain.
                                                       h: 28cm w: 17cm, Private collection.










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