INTO THE WOODS
KATIE BUNNELL

22 JUL – 12 AUG 2023
WEDS - SAT / 10 - 4 PM
grays wharf gallery

Functional, decorative and experimental works in ceramics and on paper

This solo show brings together Bunnell’s work from over the past 15 years, revealing ongoing threads as well as points of departure. Pieces range from functional tableware with digitally designed decoration to recent hand built explorations, grouping animals and landscape motifs to create miniature worlds.

Limited edition pieces in Bunnell’s distinctive ceramic tableware range include mugs, plates, butter dishes, pasta bowls and large serving platters.

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ABOUT KATIE BUNNELL

Dr Katie Bunnell has a longstanding love of ceramics in all its complex historical, contemporary, cross cultural and artfully decorative guises. This interest is referenced in her recent work through playfully modelled scenes exploring human relationships with animals and landscape, leaf shaped wall pieces and tableware decorated with trees, birds and flowers. 

Katie completed an MA in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art, London in 1993 and in 1998 was awarded a doctorate from The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen for her PhD thesis, The Integration of New Technology into Ceramic Designer-Maker Practice. In 1999 Katie became course leader for 3D Design for Sustainability at Falmouth University, and subsequently Associate Professor of Design, establishing Autonomatic, an award winning research group exploring craft and digital technologies. Katie has presented her work in exhibitions and conferences worldwide. 

Katie’s recent work marks a return to a direct engagement with clay, her love of its incredible versatility, and all the risk, frustration and delight it brings with it. Working from her studio at Grays Wharf, Penryn, Cornwall, Katie combines her individual practice with community projects and workshops. As a Whitegold Curator from 2019 to 2021, she worked with Rosanna Martin to establish Brickfield, a community brickworks based in a disused china clay pit in St Austell, and initiated the Whitegold International Ceramics Prize which celebrated artists who work in and with community. In 2022 Katie worked together with Grays Wharf CIC to produce My Jubilee, a community art project enabling 70 mostly over seventy year olds to celebrate their lives through designing their own commemorative plate in the year of the Queen's platinum jubilee.