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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.