Ursula Ströh-Rubens
Resume
I studied art for NDD at Goldsmiths' College with a postgrad diploma in ceramics and etching. I also taught there until the end of the ceramics department as a part-time lecturer.
I am selected for the Crafts Council.
My work is in various private and public collections in England, Germany and New Zealand.
I have travelled extensively in Greece where the evidence of cultural origins and the land as well as nature and architecture have greatly shaped my visual language.
I relate this experience to the forms and structures that develop through the process of building the pot. Thus birds, trees, skies and land emerge out of slips, pigments and fire.
Description of Work
My pots are handbuilt. I use a mixture of White St Thomas and T-Material. I use slips and oxides for partly designing on the surface. Then I burnish the pot.
Firing temperature is at 1000C.
After the firing I mask parts of the pot with slip and draw into it further completing the design. Then I smoke the pot. Later the masking slip is removed, revealing the total design.
Exhibitions
2006
"The nature of light" Gaston Gallery, East Bergholt.
"Monoprints and Ceramic Vessels" Craftco, Southwold, Suffolk.
"Rubens" Crooked House Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk.
2005
"Exhibition" Byard Art, Cambridge
"Berghampton Sculpture Trail 2005" Berghampton, Norfolk
Outlets
The galleries listed above plus
- Cecilia Colman, London
- Ipswich Town Hall Galleries
- Bircham Gallery, Norfolk