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.”