nick lees

My area of research is into the making and context for display of abstract ceramic sculpture. Conceptually the work is rooted in the exploration of the relationship between 'artificial' (mechanical, manmade, ordered, hard, reductive) and 'natural' (organic, soft, disordered, accretive) aesthetics. I am specifically looking at the assumed aesthetic outcomes of various techniques and processes of fabrication in ceramic and whether these have any inevitability.

 

By innovating within processes, particulalry by reversal, I seek to find new outcomes from them and particularly their relationship with the visual themes being explored. Currently I am also investigating the potentials of changing the scale of sculptures and wish to explore ways of making which deal with objects of a monolithic nature.

 

Solaroid (2006) Height 35cm

Shown at the Biennale in Korea

 

Recent Exhibitions:

 

• 2007 - World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, South Korea.
• 2004 - 1st European Ceramics Competition. (Award of Merit). Municipality of Amaroussion, PanHellenic Association of Ceramists and Potters.
• 2004 - Westerwald Ceramic Art Competition. Westerwald Keramikmuseum, Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany.
• 2003 - 53rd International Ceramics Biennale. (3rd prize winner). International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy.
• 2002 - Ceramic Contemporaries 4. RCA, Harley Gallery, Wrexham Art Gallery, Collins Gallery, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Supported by NACHE (National Assoc. for Ceramics in HE), Aberystwyth Arts Centre
• 2004 - Juror for Slovenian Ceramics. Association of Slovenian Ceramists.

 

Wormhole (2002) Height 44cm

Link to Web CV