About
I trained in ceramics in the University of Ulster and the University of Wales in Cardiff and work from my studio in Northern Ireland
There is much reminiscent of archaeology, geology and architecture in my porcelain sculptures which explore relationships between process, material and the passage of time. The work is constructed, layered, excavated, deconstructed, collapsed and fragmented to reveal associations between past, present and future, material cultural and individual memory, physical and metaphysical change as well as contrasting qualities such as strength and fallibility, structure and transition, permanence and loss. . My working method is intrinsically connected to the act of making and the endless experimentation with the changing state of parian porcelain. A wide palette of techniques, which include casting, hand-building and sculpting are continually being challenged and developed to contrast the precision of industrial techniques and geometric structure with the fallibility of the handmade. The sculptures are fired multiple times and explore concepts associated parians marble-like quality when solid, its gravity and stratification when layered and its satin -like translucency when thin. Exhibitions and a bit about where my work can be seen. Colossal Magazine. May https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/05/anne-butler-objects-of-time/ Create Day 2021 https://createday.org/videos/anne-butler/ Awards and Competitions 2023 193rd RHA ESB Moran Award for Sculpture. 2023 Shortlist Faenza Prize 2022 Arts Council of Northern Ireland,Support for individual Artist 2022 Honourable Mention Korean International Biennale 2021Korean International Ceramics Biennale, 2020Honourable Mention.Korean International Ceramics Biennale, 2020 Ceramic Monthly Competition. Contrast and Harmony 2020 Arts Council of Northern Ireland,Support for Individual Artists 2019 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for individual Artists 2018 Rosemary James Memorial Fund Award, Administered by the ACNI Public and Private Collections 2023 MIC Faenza Permanent Collection. Italy 2022 Ceramic Art Museum. Korea 2021 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Art Collection 2021 Diploma Collection Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast 2020 Changchung International Ceramic Museum, China 2017/19 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Art Collection. 2017 Hunts Museum, Irish Contemporary Contemporary Ceramic Collection, Limerick. Ireland Exhibitions and Fairs 2024 Collect 24 Somerset House. London. Represented by Ruup and Form 2023 Winter Exhibition. Ruup and Form 2023 RUA Annual Exhibition. Ulster Museum 2023 Solo Exhibition Objects of Time. Golden Thread Gallery. Belfast 2023 MIC Faenza Prize Exhibition. Italy 2023 Pathways. Craft NI, Belfast 2023 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition. Dublin 2023 Collect 23.Somerset House.Represented by Ruup and Form 2023 LandMarks. National Craft and Design Gallery, Kilkenny 2023 LondonArt Fair.Represented by Ruup and Form 2022 140th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum 2022 Land Marks. Ceramics Ireland. Argilla Italia, Faenza Italy 2022 Alpha House. Royal Ulster Academy. joint exhibition with Cara Gordon and Karen Daye- Hutchinson 2022 Conjuring Forms, National Design and Craft Gallery. Kilkenny 2022 Made in Ireland, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin and FE MCWilliam Gallery 2022 Eye of the Collector. Two Temple Place, with Ruup & Form 2022 Collect 22. Somerset House, with Ruup & Form 2021. Made in Ireland. Design and National Craft Gallery. Kilkenny. Ireland 2022 Potverdorie, Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur , Tegelen. Netherlands 2021 Korean international Ceramic Biennale 2021 Annual Ulster Academy Exhibition. Ulster Museum 2021. DCCoI Portfolio: Critical Selection. Doneraile, Ireland 2021 Handmade's Table. Ruup & Form. London Design Week 2021 Eye of the Collector. Two Temple Place. Ruup & Form 2021 Artefact. Design Centre at Chelsea Harbour, London, Ruup & Form. 2021 Collect Art Fair, London Represented by Ruup & Form Gallery 2021 London Art London, Represented by Ruup & Form Gallery 2020 International Academy of Ceramics New Members Exhibition. Guozhong Ceramic Art Museum, Beijing, China 2020 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition. Ulster Museum. Belfast 2020 Ceramic Ireland Triennial. Land Marks, Farmliegh Gallery, Dublin 2020 Changchung International Ceramic Exhibition, China Professional Memberships Associate Academician. Royal Ulster Academy of Arts. ARUA Portfolio: Critical Selection 2021 Design andCrafts council of Ireland DCCoI International Academy of Ceramics IAC Royal Society of Sculptors. RBSS Crafts Potters Association. CPA Contemporary Appiied Arts. CAA Gallery Representation Ruup&Form Gallery London ruupandform.com/the-makers/anne-butler. Stockists So Fine Art Gallery, Dublin, www.sofinearteditions.com/anne-butler/ Contemporary Ceramics, London Contemporary Applied Arts, London CraftNI, Belfast Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford, Ireland Ruthin Gallery, Wales BlueCoat Display Centre. Liverpool Cambridge Contemporary Art Gallery, Cambridge |
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