Born in 1982
Lives and works in Bristol (UK)
www.emilygibbard.com
instagram.com/totterdown_potterdown
TRAINING
Founder and Director of Windmill Clay Studio. Teacher of studio ceramics. Co- founder of Bristol Clay cooperative, Bristol.
2019 - 2021
Full-time resident, Maze Studios CIC Ceramics Devpt Programme, Bristol (UK) Mentee of Roger Owen, Potter and Programme Lead for Art and Design, City of Bristol (UK)
2021 DYCP Arts Council England funding - focus on developing larger scale sculptural work, Brussels research trip
2016 - 2018 Ceramics Student, Bristol potteries.
2002 - 2006 BA Hons Social Anthropology & Spanish 2:1 University of Sussex, Specialisms in gender politics and pre-Columbian art
2004 - 2005 Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Ceramic Art London, Kensington Olympia (UK)
2024 Women in Art Fair, The Mall Galleries, London SW1(UK)
2024 Vessel, The Bottle Factory London (UK)
2024 COLLECT OPEN exhibitor, Collect Art Fair, Somerset House London (UK)
2024 Clay Is My Canvas, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester (UK), curated by Nick Duxbury 2022-2023 Thrown Contemporary London, Winter Exhibition (UK)
Emily's ceramic practice transforms vessels thrown on the potter's wheel into biomorphic sculptural forms that explore body perception, identity and sexuality. Though rooted in the traditions of pottery craft, Emily plays and experiments with vessels to create abstract body representation. Inspiration comes from her work on women's empowerment, studies of prehistoric sculpture and her personal journey of discovery of the body.(...)
Read the full text in the 2025 exhibition catalog
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