Featured Artist
Ann McNulty
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Artists' Statement:
My Raku work gives me the freedom to investigate form and surface pattern. Usually an idea is sparked off by an emotional response to something I have seen or experienced, this then goes through an intellectual process where the idea is worked on, abstracted and becomes manifest in a ceramic form. I like to work on a large scale with deliberately simple forms onto which I apply complex surface patterns that I use to exaggerate and accentuate the forms. When working on a particular theme I always make a series of pieces sometimes in order to work the iddea through or sometimes the making takes over opening new areas of discovery.
Artists Biography:
I have been running my pottery in Enniskillen since 1978. I have designed and made a wide range of work thrown and hand-built using techniques from pit-firing and raku to stoneware on which I have used metal lustres.
Degree in Ceramics from the Ulster College of Art & Design, Belfast.
1976-77 Glencolumbkille Craft Centre, Co Donegal First workshop.
1977 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Bursary Award
1978 Set up workshop in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh
1979 Exhibition in Fermanagh County Museum with painter Janet Pierce
1983-84 Residency in Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh, Co Tyrone
1984 Bielefeld, Germany Fermanagh Exhibition
1985 Research & Development Award to develop new work at Kilkenny Design Workshops, Ireland.
1988 Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition at Fermanagh County Museum with Ulster Museum Collection
1989 Ceramic Review pots and Potters
1989 Open Ceramics Exhibition at Harmony Hill Arts Centre, Lisburn, Co Antrim
1990 Commission from BBC radio Ulster for Decorative Ceramics as major prize in "Families in Question" radio quiz
1991 Ceramic Review "In View"
1991 "A place at Table" Harmony Hill Arts Centre, Lisburn, Co Antrim
1992 Irish Exhibition in Liberty's London
1993 "Exposition d' Artisan Irlandais" for Craft Potters Society of Ireland in Irish College, Paris
1996 Work featured in Select Furniture and Interiors of Ireland and U-Magazine
1996 Photograph of work used as cover for National Curriculum Primary School Art booklet for Northern Ireland
1998 Moved to the Buttermarket Craft & Design Centre Enniskillen
2000 Art in Action Slane, Ireland
Potfest, Perth, Scotland
2d 3D Fermanagh County Museum, Enniskillen, Fermanagh
2001 Potfest, Perth, Scotland
Potfest in the Pens Penrith, Cumbria
Commission for Stand Alone Raku Pot to be put on permanent display in the William Jefferson Clinton International Peace Centre, Enniskillen, Fermanagh
2002 Potfest Perth, Scotland
Craft Potters Society of Ireland Summer Show Ardgillan Castle Dublin.
Selected for Potfest in the Park Penrith, Cumbria, a selected show of 100 potters from the U.K. Europe and Japan.
Common Earth 2002 Newman House, Dublin.
Ceramic Review, Gallery, July/August.
Featured in Josie Walters' book Pots in The Kitchen
2003 General Arts Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2004 Basement Gallery Enniskillen Christmas Show
2005 Janet Pierce Paintings Ann McNulty Pottery Fermanagh County Museum, February - March
2005 Piece Exhibition (Touring Exhibition),
Downpatrick Arts Centre, September - December.
Crafts Council of Ireland Gallery Kilkenny
2006 Piece Exhibition (Touring Exhibition)
Leitrim Design House Carrick-On-Shannon - March
Glor Gallery, Ennis, Co Clare - April
2006 Irish Contemporary Ceramics "All Fired Up" Touring Exhibition
Limerick City Arts Gallery - January
2006 Royal Ulster Academy 125th Exhibition - October
2006 Purchase of 2 pieces by Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2006 Irish Contemporary Ceramics "All Fired Up" Touring Exhibition
Limerick City Art Gallery, January - February
2006 South Tipperary County Museum, July - September
2007 The National Crafts Gallery Kilkenny, January - February
2007 Irish Contemporary Ceramics "All Fired Up" Touring Exhibition The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin, February - August
2007 Featured in "Craft Traditions - Clay" on BBC1 Northern Ireland in March.
2007 Royal Ulster Academy 126th Exhibition - October
Artists' Contact Details:
1, The Buttermarket,
Down Street,
Enniskillen,
Co., Fermanagh
BT74 7DU.
Tel., 02866324721
e-mail: annmcnulty@talk21.com
Website: www.annmcnultypottery.com
