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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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