Zoe Preece British, b. 1973

Overview
Zoe Preece

Zoe Preece was born in South East England in 1973. She now lives and works in Wales, with her studio based at Fireworks Clay Studios in Cardiff. She studied Ceramics in her first degree at Cardiff School of Art and Design (2000), completed a Masters in Ceramics also at Cardiff School of Art and Design (2010), and a PGCE (FE/HE) at Cardiff University (2013). She works as ceramic tutor for UWC Atlantic College.

Zoe has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She was selected for AWARD, British Ceramic Biennial (2019), was awarded the Gold Medal for Craft and Design, the CASW Purchase Prize and the Josef Herman Award The People’s Choice at Y Lle Celf at the National Eisteddfod of Wales (2018) and was a juror prize winner in the international exhibition Materials: Hard and Soft, Denver, US (2017). Her work is in public collections in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and the Museum of Craft and Design, Denver, US. Zoe was funded by the Arts Council of Wales (2019) to create a solo exhibition which toured to venues across Wales (2021, 2022, 2023). Zoe currently has work on show in the National Museum of Wales as part of the exhibition, The Rules of Art?

 

 

“My current practice takes the domestic realm as the site of its enquiry. I make intimate but nameless still lives that speak of the ordinary and the human. Through focused attention on everyday domestic objects and ordinary scenes, my work endeavors to engage with the intangible, disquieting and emotive aspects of life through material processes and form.

Ceramic forms are carved from plaster on the lathe or by hand, before being moulded3 and cast in a fine white porcelain; the heat of the kiln chamber is used to seek out moments of fluidity. I also work in collaboration with Fablab Cardiff making use of their 3D scanning and CNC milling technologies to produce milled walnut tableaux that function as components for furniture pieces.”

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Biography
Zoe Preece

Education
2011-2013 Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Cardiff University
2008-2010 MA Ceramics, Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC
1995-2000 BA Ceramics, Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC


Solo Exhibitions

2022 In Reverence, Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales
2022 In Reverence, Ceramic Gallery, Aberystwyth Art Centre, Wales
2021 In Reverence, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2018 Material Presence: A Domestic Scene, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales


Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Vessel, Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds
Art of the Table, Cardiff Made, Cardiff, Wales
Eye of the Collector, Ruup & Form, Two Temple Place, London
Collect 2022, Ruup & Form, Somerset House, London
Collect 2022, Ruthin Crafts Centre, Somerset House, London
2021 The Rules of Art? National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
The Handmade’s Table, Ruup & Form, London Design Festival, 14 Cavendish, London
Collect 2021, Ruthin Crafts Centre, online.
2020 A Language of Clay, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, UK
2019 AWARD, British Ceramic Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent
Oita Prefecture Art Museum, Japan
2018 The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff
2017 Materials: Hard and Soft, Museum of Craft and Design, Denver, US
2016 Biennale International de Vallauris, Création Contemporaine et Céramique, Vallauris, France
Mono, Boundary Art Gallery, Cardiff
‘An ‘in’ with a Stranger’, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales
2015 The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Meifod
The Sensorial Object, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff & Oriel Q, Narberth
2014 The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Llanelli, Wales
Fireworks Now, Aberystwyth Arts Centre & Y Galeri, Caerphilly
The Common Object, Cardiff M.A.D.E Gallery
2013 200 years on: Contemporary Works in Clay, Nantgarw China Museum, Wales
Fireworks Now, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
Art Craft, Cardiff Arts Collective, Cardiff
2011 FRESH, British Ceramic Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent
The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Wrexham and District
Welsh Artist of the Year, St. David’s Hall, Cardiff

Permanent Collections

2022 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
2018 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
2016 Museum of Craft and Design, Denver, US

 

Publications

2022 Ceramics: Art and Perception #119
2022 New Ceramics / Neue Keramik No. 06
2022 Ceramics Monthly, January 2022
2019 Ceramics: Art and Perception #112
2018 CCQ, A Creative Conversation, August
2018 Crafts, 273. July/August 2018
2017 ‘Cast’, Jen Townsend and Renee Zettle-Sterling, Schiffer Publishing
2016 Biennale International de Vallauris, Création Contemporaine et Céramique
2015 Co-editor and contributor to The Sensorial Object Catalogue
Buzz, Feb. 2015
Crafts, 252, Jan/Feb 2015
2011 Ceramic Review, 251, Sept./Oct. 2011
2000 Ceramic Review, 185, Sept./Oct. 2000

Awards/ Grants

2019 Arts Council of Wales, Production Grant
2018 Gold Medal Winner, Craft and Design, The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff
CASW Purchase Prize Winner, The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff. Purchased by the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Josef Herman People’s Choice Award, The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff
2017 Juror Prize Winner, Materials: Hard & Soft, Museum of Craft and Design, Denver, US
2016 Arts Council of Wales, Production Grant
2014 Arts Council of Wales, Training Grant

 

Professional

2015 – present Ceramic Tutor, UWC Atlantic College, Wales
2012–2018 Associate Lecturer, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, Metropolitan University, Wales
2015 Artist in Residence, Makers Using Technology, Design Forum Wales
2015 Co-Curator of The Sensorial Object, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales

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