Artists Statement

Ideas for my work are drawn from the Deben, a tidal River in Suffolk, where for many generations my family have lived and worked. Fossels collected since childhood form the quality and colour palette found in my work, each colour linking back to the muddy foreshore on which it was conceived.The landscape is constantly changing; what is concealed by the flow of water and shifting mud, structures used to mark and marshal the flow are revealed.The making process is  evolutionary; whilst working on one piece, ideas develop for the following work. I am always learning and testing the clay. Pieces sometimes take one river element as inspiration, others merge two or more to create composite descriptions of the river's architecture and man's intervention; the harvesting of  shellfish and in particular herrings using drift nets, evoking memories fishing with my late father.The work titled Net uses the potential for the kilns heat to reshape giving the work its final form. I have learned how the construction of the work can promote the warping and twisting of the forms, these shifts only revealed when the kiln door is opened, mirroring the effect of the current as it pushes and rotates nets in flow. All works are hand built, glazed using lithium and a variety of oxides and fired to 1220oc – 1230oc.

  • Born Suffolk 1958

    1980 – 1983 MA Ceramics Royal College of Art London

    1976 -  1979 BA Hons 3D Design – Ceramics Bristol Polytechnic.

    2021 -  Crafting a Difference The Argentine Ambassador's Official Residence,London.

    2021 -  Crafting a Difference Soshiro London.

    2020 – Collect represented by Cavaliero and Finn, Somerset House, London 

    2019 -  Fitzrobia Chapel,Cavalerio Finn London.

    2019 - Loewe Craft Prize Award craft Exhibition Tokyo.

    2019 – Women Making and Design,The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.

    2018 -  Bristol Forty Years on, San Mei Gallery,London.

    2018 – The Fine Art Fair, London. Represented By Cavaliero and Finn.

    2017  - Messoms Wiltshire Group Exhibition.

    2016 – Material Language Group Exhibition, Roche Court Wiltshire.

    2014 – Turner and Jezequel, Ceramics and Photography. Erskine Hall and Coe.

  • 2019 - Shortlisted for the LOEWE Crafts Prize Award.

    2013 – Awarded the Emmanuel Cooper Craft prize Award Ceramic Art London UK,

    2009 - Awarded the N.A.C.H.E prize for excellence Ceramic Art London UK

    1984 - Awarded The Crafts Council New Craftsman's Grant. Uk

  • Keramic Symposium,Gumunden,Austria.

    Inclusion in Books and Catalogues

    Illustrated Dictionary of Pottery Decoration, Prentice Hall Press.

    New Ceramics, Thames and Hudson

    Hand Built Ceramics, Batsford

    Ceramics and Print, Paul Scott. A&C Black

    Modern British Potters and their Studios.David Whiting – Jay Goldmark. A&C Black

    Ceramique Triennale Europeenne – Verre. WCC.BF

    Contemporary Decorative Arts - Joanna Bird

    RIVER. Annie Turner. Helene Poree.

    Contemporary British Ceramics. Beneath the surface. Author Ashly Thorpe.

  • Ceramic Review,River Sculptor. Issue. 272

    Ceramic Review,Finding the Links Issue. 282

    The Ceramics of Annie Turner, Craft Arts international Australia.

    Ceramic Review,Ceramics a lifelong Vocation. Issue 294

    Crafts Material language,Praising the capabilities of Clay,Roche court.July/Aug 2016

    Ceramic Review. Mixing it, Richard Gray. Issue186

    Crafts. A River runs Through It. David Whiting.

    Ceramic Review Waterscapes. Katy Bevan issue 191

    Crafts Exhibition Review. Constructed Clay, Julian Stair 183 July/Aug.

    Craft international. Ceramics Ireland.

    Television.

    BBC. Contemporary Visions. 2003.

  • Shiply Art Gallery. Gateshead Uk

    The National Museum of Wales. Cardiff Uk

    The Fitzwilliam museum Cambridge.UK

    The Victoria and Albert Museum. London UK

    The York Museum, Yorkshire.UK

    The Gardiner Museum,Toronto.Canada

    Loewe Foundation.