Anne Butler British, b. 1963

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  • Anne Butler, Civic White 1, 2021
    Civic White 1, 2021
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  • Anne Butler, Civic White 2, 2021
    Civic White 2, 2021
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  • Anne Butler, Civic White 3, 2023
    Civic White 3, 2023
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  • Anne Butler, Civic White 4, 2023
    Civic White 4, 2023
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Overview
Anne Butler

Anne Butler is a ceramist, having travelled  and lived extensively in many countries teaching, she now livings and works from Carryduff, Northern Ireland. Anne studied ceramics at the University of Wales and furthered her practice with a masters in ceramics from the University of Ulster.  

 Anne’s creates striking sculptures in Parian porcelain, experimenting both with raw and fired state of the material, her extensive palette of techniques- casting, hand-building and printing, are continuously challenged and developed with multiple firings accentuates the porcelain’s satin, marble-like quality when solid and the delicacy and translucency when thin.

 

 Her sculptures are inspired by natural and manmade structures and are constructed - layered - deconstructed – collapsed and excavated to reveal associations between cultural and individual memory as well as contrasting qualities of strength and fallibility and material properties such as texture and density. She adds, “There is much reminiscent of archaeology, geology and architecture in my work which explores relationships between process, material and time.” 

 

 

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Biography
Anne Butler
Anne has showcased at Korean International Ceramic Biennale (Incheon 2019),  Ceramic Art Fair (London, 2020) amongst others. She has won the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for individual Artists (2019) and Rosemary James Memorial Fund Award, Administered by the ACNI (2018) . Anne’s work is part of the Art Collection at Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Irish Contemporary Ceramic Collection in Limerick, Ireland

Education

1985 - BA Ceramics - University of Ulster

2000- MA Ceramics – University of Wales

 

Awards and Competitions

2020 Honourable 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

2017 Sponsorship from on-line Ceramics for Innovations in Ceramics, Cambridge

2016 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Support for Individual Artists

 

General Award Public and Private Collections

2020 Changchung International Ceramic Museum, China

2017/19 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Art Collection.

2017 Irish Contemporary Ceramic collection, Hunts Museum Contemporary Ceramic Collection, Limerick. Ireland

 

Exhibitions /Art Fairs

2021 Collect 2021, London Represented by Ruup & Form Gallery

Ceramic Art London

Potverdorie, Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen. Netherlands.

2020 International Academy of Ceramics New Members Exhibition. Guozhong Ceramic Art Museum, Beijing, China

Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition. Ulster Museum. Belfast

Ceramic Ireland Triennial. Land Marks, Farmliegh Gallery, Dublin Touring to Argilla Faenza, Italy 2021

Unlocked. Craft NI Gallery. Belfast.

Arts council Collection Exhibition. Craft NI Gallery, Belfast.

Shortlist - Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition Dublin Changchun International Ceramics festival, Changchun, China

2019 Korean International Ceramic Biennale. Icheon. Korea

Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Belfast

Royal Society of Sculptors Annual Exhibition, London

Artists in Craft, Cill Rialiag Arts Centre. Ireland

Showcase. Rosie James Memorial fund, Ulster museum, Belfast

Present and Collect. Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London

2018. Sculpture in Context, Dublin

Royal Society of Sculptors Annual Exhibition. London

Contained, Byre, Focess Yard, Cloughmills

The Untold Story. Hallows Gallery, Belfast.

Boyle Arts Festival Exhibition. Ireland

True Colours, Contemporary Applied Arts, London

2017 Royal Ulster Academy 134th Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

Present and Collect, Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery, London

Round house Gallery Derbyshire

Bravura, Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford

Royal Dublin Society Craft Award Exhibition, Dublin

Paragon, Spacecraft, Belfast

Summer Exhibition Green Acres Gallery, Wexford

Artists in Craft, Cill Rialaig, Kerry. Ireland

7 Shades, Down Patrick Arts Centre Narratives in Making, Portfolio: Critical Selection

National Craft Gallery. Kilkenny

Ruthin Craft Gallery, Wales

2016 Royal Ulster Academy 133rd Annual Exhibition

Table Exhibition, Butler House, Kilkenny

Festival Exhibition - Boyle Arts Festival

Art of Craft,Market Place Theatre, Armagh

Royal Ulster Academy 132nd Annual Exhibition, Belfast

 

Selected Memberships

ARUA Royal Ulster Academy Associate Academician

IAC International Academy of Ceramics

CPA Craft Potters Association

CAA Contemporary Applied Arts, London

RBSS Royal British Society of Sculptor

DCCoI. Design and Craft Council of Ireland. Critical Selection:

 

Portfolio 2017/18 Publications / Reviews

2020 Ceramic Monthly. September issue. Contrast and Harmony.

2019. BBC The Arts Show. The ones to Watch

2019 Klein K. Online ceramic Magazine issue 45 2019. Arts Feature. The Irish News.

2017 Ceramic Ireland, May issue, Back to the Future. Work of Anne Butler

2002 Trace Elements, Work of Anne Butler by Dr J. Jones. Ceramic Art and Perception.

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