Julie Brunskill

Cross-currents

Author: Julie Brunskill March 15, 2017 0 Comments

Cross-current: – 1. a current in a river or sea flowing across another current. 2. a conflicting tendency moving counter to the usual trend. These two pieces – Cross-currents and Sea Passage feel in some way separate from my other…
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Ceramics

art, black, ceramics, clay, interior, paper clay, sea, surface texture, texture

Shades of Clay

Author: Julie Brunskill November 22, 2016 0 Comments

My work can currently be seen at Kunsthuis in the annual ceramics exhibition ‘Shades of Clay’ which features 25 UK and international ceramicists. The exhibition runs until 24th December. “Shades of Clay’ comprises a whole breadth of clay based work…
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Art Galleries, Ceramics

art, ceramics, clay, Contemporary Art Gallery, craft, Crayke, Dutch House, exhibition, Kunsthuis, Shades of Clay, White Rose Awards 2016, York

Longère

Author: Julie Brunskill September 2, 2016 4 Comments

‘Longère’ is a paper-clay piece I made while working towards the Mission Gallery Maker in Focus exhibition ‘After the Firing’, but I felt it didn’t fit within that body of work and so it wasn’t exhibited. ‘Longère’ was prompted by…
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Ceramics

art, cave art, ceramics, France, hand prints, holidays, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, paper clay, surface decoration

Thorn Forms

Author: Julie Brunskill May 3, 2016 0 Comments

Thorn l and Thorn ll are some of the final pieces I made towards the Maker in Focus exhibition at Mission Gallery. They are something of a return to the tree motif I initially envisaged as the major element within…
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black, ceramics, clay, Coed Bach Park, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, paper clay, Thorn trees, vulcan

Final chance to see Maker in Focus

Author: Julie Brunskill March 31, 2016 0 Comments

My Maker in Focus slot at Mission Gallery, Swansea finishes on Sunday 3rd April. If you would like to see it get in quick! The gallery is open from 11am to 5pm.

Art Galleries, Ceramics

art, ceramics, clay, cobalt blue, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, sense of place, Swansea, terracotta, texture

Maker in Focus

Author: Julie Brunskill February 28, 2016 2 Comments

My latest work is now on display in the Mission Gallery’s Maker in Focus space until 3 April. The gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm. Some images of the work can be seen on the new portfolio page…
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After the Firing, art, Arts Council of Wales, ceramics, craft, exhibition, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery

After the Firing

Author: Julie Brunskill February 12, 2016 0 Comments

My exhibition for Maker in Focus at the Mission Gallery in Swansea is fast approaching and I’m running out of shelf space in my studio! I am having to do a number of firings in quick succession especially as I was…
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Art Galleries, Ceramics

art, ceramics, exhibition, kiln firings, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, studio, Swansea

Out of the ashes … and floods!

Author: Julie Brunskill January 20, 2016 2 Comments

Between Christmas 2015 and New Year 2016 we headed up to the north of England to visit family and friends in York and Middlesbrough. On such a short, busy visit there was little time for art, especially with the dreadful…
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Art Galleries, Ceramics

Anthony Shaw, ceramics, Clare Twomey, Cleveland College of Art, CoCA, collections, David Greaves, floods, Gordon Baldwin, Martin Smith, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, MIMA, York Art Gallery

Vulcan Black and Earthstone

Author: Julie Brunskill January 15, 2016 0 Comments

While producing this work for Maker in Focus at the Mission Gallery in Swansea, I’ve used, it turns out, several different clay bodies – two different blacks, terracotta, white earthenware, at least one earthstone, and three different paperclays. I think the…
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Ceramics

art, clay, Earthstone, House of Leaves, leaves, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, paperclay, Sea Change, Swansea, terrcotta, Vulcan Black

Lost trees, rising seas.

Author: Julie Brunskill December 1, 2015 0 Comments

‘Ebb Tide’, work in progress. When starting out on this work I intended combining the urban/industrial with elements of the natural world, envisaging the main signifier as being the tree. To an extent this has happened but as time went past I…
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Ceramics

clay, ebb, environment, global warming, natural world, sea, tide, tree

Slideshow part 2

Author: Julie Brunskill November 12, 2015 0 Comments

Finally putting the rest of the slideshow up now the piece has been successfully biscuit fired!

Ceramics

at work, ceramics, clay, construction, firing, slab building, slideshow, studio

At work in the studio

Author: Julie Brunskill October 21, 2015 0 Comments

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Ceramics

ceramics, clay, design, hands, slab building, slideshow, studio, work in progress

Decisions, decisions!

Author: Julie Brunskill October 6, 2015 0 Comments

Which piece or pieces and which shot?? I have to decide on one for the next Mission Gallery brochure!

Ceramics

art, black, brochure, ceramics, forms, Mission Gallery, oxides, photography

But will it get through the firing?

Author: Julie Brunskill September 27, 2015 0 Comments

These photographs show that, despite the headlong rush to cover as much land as possible with new-build, there are still some truly liminal, and surreal, sights/sites to be found in Pontarddulais. In the meantime some works at different stages –…
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Ceramics

bath, ceramics, clay, derelict building, liminal space, paper clay, slab building, Vulcan Black, work in progress

No School, Not Too Precious and Flora.

Author: Julie Brunskill September 18, 2015 0 Comments

I recently travelled to North Wales, with husband and younger daughter, visiting some galleries that were either new to me or that I haven’t seen in many years and that have undergone significant development. Oriel Mostyn was first on the…
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Art Galleries, Ceramics

"Flora", Adam Buick, Anya Galaccio, Contemporary Design Craft, Flora Vagi, North Wales, Oriel Davies, Oriel Mostyn, Ruthin Craft Centre

Tests and Trials

Author: Julie Brunskill September 7, 2015 0 Comments

Waiting with somewhat bated breath for the outcome of today’s firing – lots of test pieces and one much larger form than I’ve made in a while. Also trying out a new, to me, clay body – Vulcan Black –…
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Ceramics

clay, firing, oxides, surface texture, tests, Vulcan Black

RIP old kiln

Author: Julie Brunskill August 30, 2015 0 Comments

Ceramics

flower pots, garden, kiln, raised bed, recycling, RIP

New kiln – shiny!

Author: Julie Brunskill August 24, 2015 0 Comments

In May I was thrilled to receive an Arts Council of Wales grant to buy a new kiln (following a firing catastrophe with my old one) and time to produce new work for my upcoming Maker in Focus exhibition in…
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Arts Council of Wales, grants, kiln, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, Swansea

Cross-currents

Author: Julie Brunskill March 15, 2017 0 Comments

Ceramics

art, black, ceramics, clay, interior, paper clay, sea, surface texture, texture

Shades of Clay

Author: Julie Brunskill November 22, 2016 0 Comments

Art Galleries, Ceramics

art, ceramics, clay, Contemporary Art Gallery, craft, Crayke, Dutch House, exhibition, Kunsthuis, Shades of Clay, White Rose Awards 2016, York

Longère

Author: Julie Brunskill September 2, 2016 4 Comments

Ceramics

art, cave art, ceramics, France, hand prints, holidays, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, paper clay, surface decoration

Thorn Forms

Author: Julie Brunskill May 3, 2016 0 Comments

Ceramics

black, ceramics, clay, Coed Bach Park, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, paper clay, Thorn trees, vulcan

Final chance to see Maker in Focus

Author: Julie Brunskill March 31, 2016 0 Comments

My Maker in Focus slot at Mission Gallery, Swansea finishes on Sunday 3rd April. If you would like to see it get in quick! The gallery is open from 11am to 5pm.

Art Galleries, Ceramics

art, ceramics, clay, cobalt blue, Maker in Focus, Mission Gallery, sense of place, Swansea, terracotta, texture