Sara Moorhouse is a ceramic artist whose work looks at how spaces within landscape are altered depending on the ever-changing colours of season, weather, time and farming.
"The development of my work into ceramics, colour and spatial perception began with a Masters degree at Cardiff in 2003.
"The bowls act as a canvas for paintings that distil specific landscape scenes, perceptibly altering the size, depth and shape of the form by the applied colour. The forms can be made to seem wider or narrower, deeper or shallower, heavier or lighter, or they may appear to undulate, bend, move or hover by the juxtaposition of finer lines.
"The viewing of both inner and outer surfaces together enables me to exploit colour connections and visual play from one side to another, emphasising or flattening the dimensionality of the form."
Selected Galleries & Exhibitions
Welsh Artist of the Year, Cardiff
National Eisteddfod, Swansea
Chelsea Crafts Fair, London
Verve, Ruthin Crafts Centre, Ruthin
The 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005, Korea
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Gallerie Dessers, Hassalt, Belgium
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, N Wales
Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff and Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge, N Wales
Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Bluecoats Display Centre, Liverpool
Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
Awards: prizes
05/2009
First prize in the category 'Vessel, Form, Décor' for the Ceramics for Europe
Westerwald Prize 2009, Germany: E5000
07/2006
People's Choice Award, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Swansea
06/2006
Welsh Artist of the Year Award for the Applied Arts
10/2005
First Time Exhibitor Award, Chelsea Crafts Fair
03/2005
Diploma of Honour, Honourable Mention, 3rd World Ceramic Biennale '05 Korea
Awards: funding
08/2013
Arts Council Wales Training Grant
07/2010
Art Council Wales Project Grant: £5000
05/2009
Palmer Travel Award, Colour Group of Great Britain
05/2009
Overseas Travel Award, UWIC
03/06-03/09
Bursary: PhD in Ceramics, UWIC Bars Scheme, Cardiff
03/2005
WAI Travel Award: Ceramic Biennale 2005 Exhibition, Korea