A team of ten highly experienced academic, research
and technical staff contribute to the Centreís teaching,
research and other wide-ranging activities related to practice
in ceramics. Each brings, a high level of specialist knowledge,
skills and understandings to their discipline area and
collectively they cover all key aspects of ceramics practice
and theory. Almost all of the staff are active as artists,
makers or researchers, with several having international
profiles for their creative works or scholarly publications.
This wealth of experience provided by the Centres permanent
staff and available to students at all levels, is further
extended by many eminent artists, designers and theorists
from the UK and around the world, who visit the Centre
to deliver lectures, workshops or master classes, for varying
periods each year.
 Duncan Ayscough: Senior
Lecturer
Contact: dayscough@uwic.ac.uk
Duncan Ayscough graduated in 1990 with
BA (Hons) in three-dimensional Design from Manchester Metropolitan
University, and in 1994 with MA Ceramics from Cardiff.
Awarded a William De Morgan Fellowship in 1994, Duncan
used the opportunity this provided, to investigate terra-sigilatta
surfaces and used the findings from this research to underpin
his practice as an artist/maker. More recently, he has
intensified his engagement with wheel, exploring the interrelationship
of form and surfaces selectively exposured to carbonisation,
and the ways these surfaces may be further enriched with
naturally occurring waxes, and application of precious
metals. Selected for both first and second Ceramic Contemporaries
Exhibitions in the mid 1990s, Duncan currently exhibits
widely across the UK and is a Fellow of the Craft Potters
Association of Great Britain.
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 Peter
Castle:Course
Director/MA Ceramics
Contact: pcastle@uwic.ac.uk
Since graduating in 1972 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Ceramics,
Peter Castle has practiced through the medium of both ceramics
and print, time, engaging increasingly with the development
of imagery through exploiting innovative combinations of
ceramic and print materials and processes. This involves
manipulation of imagery through both hand and mechanical
or electronic processes, including CAD/ CAM, with the imagery
further developed through the process of firing. In his
role as an academic, he has taught ceramics at all levels
from undergraduate to the supervision of postgraduate research
degree students, delivered papers at conferences and held
workshops on the subject of ceramic print, both in the
UK and N. America.
Responsibilities within the Centre includes the Course
Directorship for MA Ceramics Programme, tutor for the
BA (Hons) Ceramics and a supervisor for M.Phil/ PhD research
degree students.
 Claire Curneen: Senior Lecturer
Contact: ccurneen@uwic.ac.uk
Since graduating with MA Ceramics in 1992, Claire Curneen
has pursued within her artworks, themes of selfless sacrifice,
transcendence, purpose and platonic love weave through
these pieces like a complex leitmotif, shifting and changing
according to subject and form (Hughes, Philip, Director,
Ruthin Craft Centre). She is now established as one of
Europeís major artists working with the figure through
the medium of ceramics, and selected for key exhibitions
world wide: including the 52nd International Competition
for Ceramic Art at Faenza, Italy and the 2001 Prix deí AMN.
Her work also features extensively in recent books and
journals and pieces are held in eminent international collections,
including the V&A. Whilst she is one of the new generation
of artists, her contribution to the field has already been
recognised through her election to the International Academy
of Ceramics, Geneva.
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 Delyth Done: Course Director/ BA (Hons) Ceramics
Contact: ddone@uwic.ac.uk
Graduating in 1996 with M.Art (RCA) in Ceramics, Delyth
Done has commented critically on the introduction of genetic
modification within agriculture, through her art practice.
With a childhood growing up on a farm, Delyth is well placed
to draw from this experience and the resulting insights
and understandings, to inform and give authority to the
expression of her work in the form of mutated human and
animal figures, in ceramics and occasionally bronze. In
the past, she has also worked extensively as a community
artist in schools, hospitals and in public spaces, working
with carved brick and mosaics.
Responsibilities within the Centre include the course
directorship for the undergraduate programme and the development
of learning and teaching resources across the Centre
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 Michael Hose: Chair of Centre
Contact: mhose@uwic.ac.uk
Michael Hose graduated in 1968 with M.Des (RCA). Engaged
first as a researcher by Josiah Wedgwood plc, where his
early work on the development of modelling devices fostered
the companyís later significant commitment to CAD/
CAM for both design and modelling. He later also worked
as a shape designer for the company before establishing
a practice as independent designer and manufacturer of
ceramics. In his role as an academic, he founded and developed
the Centreís taught MA course in the early 1980s
and more recently the research degree programme. His research
activities relate to the examination of aspects of creative
practice, most currently focusing upon the representation
or expression of the human figure, through the medium of
ceramics.
Responsibilities within the Centre include the supervision
of research degrees, the tutoring and supervision of mastersí students
and the conduct of research.
 Dr. Jeffrey Jones: Research Fellow
Contact: jcjones@uwic.ac.uk
Having trained as a practitioner in both Fine Art and
Ceramics before undertaking doctoral studies focussing
upon the history of studio pottery, and progressing to
current position, where he conducts post-doctoral research
in the history of ceramics, he is ideally placed to investigate
the relationship between ceramics practice and theory.
He is a founder editor of the electronic journal Interpreting
Ceramics and has played a leading role in the development
of the Researching Ceramics Online Database. He regularly
presents papers at academic conferences and is currently
writing a book on studio pottery in Britain, to be published
by A & C Black. He is also the lead organiser of the
Fragmented Figure, www.fragmentedfigure.net
Responsibilities within the Centre the conduct of post-doctoral
research, lectures and seminar with students on both undergraduate
and postgraduate programmes.
 Babette Martini: Research Assistant
Contact: bmartini@uwic.ac.uk
Appointed as a research assistant after graduating with
an MA in Ceramics in 2002, Babette is undertaking a practice-led
PhD project and examining the interaction of the artist
with their medium, the processes they use and the ways
these impact upon their expression of the human figure.
Prior to undertaking her mastersí studies in 2001/02,
Babette had already established herself as an artist and
enjoyed a national profile for her work. She has further
developed this public profile, most recently at the Human
Form exhibition, Rufford Gallery, Notts. She has written
scholarly articles on her specialist subject, published
in Ceramics in Society and for the electronic Internet
journal, Interpreting Ceramics www.uwic.ac.uk/ICRC.
She is currently co-organiser for the Fragmented Figure
Conference.
 Dr. Natasha Mayo: Lecturer
Contact: nmayo@uwic.ac.uk
Educated first as a BA (Hons) Fine Art painting student
in Canterbury, Natasha Mayo then qualified and taught as
a secondary school teacher before returning to higher education
as an MA student. Following completion of her MA Ceramics
studies in Cardiff, she embarked on practice-led PhD studies
within the Centre, funded by AHRB. Through her research,
she investigated the ways in which the surface and form
of the human body in figurative ceramic sculpture can be
manipulated to suggest sensations and emotions experienced
in relation to flesh and skin. She was instrumental in
establishing the Zelli Porcelain Prize and was awarded
the first prize in 2002. In addition to delivering papers
at key conferences, she also edited Issue 56 of Ceramics
in Society www.ceramic-society.co.uk on the subject of contemporary figurative ceramics. She
is currently co-curating the Fragmented Figure Exhibition,
www.fragmentedfigure.net/
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 Pauline Monkcom: Technical Demonstrator
Contact: pmonkcom@uwic.ac.uk
Graduating with MA Ceramics in 1986, Pauline Monkcom started
to practice immediately as an artist/maker, focussing on
the development of lustre-fired wheel-based forms. Pauline
exhibits her work extensively both in the UK and abroad
and her pieces feature in a number of publications and
museum collections, including the National Museums and
Galleries of Wales. She also undertakes commissions for
public organisations, for example, the National Trust and
the NMGW. In recognition of her work and standing as a
artsist/maker in the UK, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship
in 1998, to study architectural ceramics (and lusterware
in particular), in both Spain and Portugal. More recently
(2001), she completed an artist in residency, at the Rufford
Crafts Centre, Notts.
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 Caroline Taylor: Technical Demonstrator
Contact: chtaylor@uwic.ac.uk
Caroline Taylor graduated with MA Ceramics in 1994 and
started to practice and exhibit immediately. She comments
through her work on ethically issues associated with the
ways meat is ìpackagedî as food, particularly
in supermarkets, to detach it from any connection with
the creatures from which the meat is derived. Her work
has been shown extensively across the UK, including the
V&A (Ceramic Contemporaries, 1996), when she was a
prizewinner, as well as a key exhibitor in Hot Off The
Press 1997 (Crafts Council). To achieve the level of authority
or authenticity of her images, Caroline makes innovative
and skilful use of industrial processes, including mouldmaking
and printing. Her work features in a number of recent books
and journals.
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 Glyn Tilley: Senior Technician
Glyn Tilly is fully qualified and highly experienced electrical
technician, who until taking up the post in the Centre,
was the key installer of kilns and trouble-shooter, for
a major kilns and ceramic materials agent. Thus he brings
to the Centre, considerable experience and expertise in
regard to the construction, maintenance and firing of kilns,
with a particular specialism in temperature control systems.
He also oversees the maintenance of all of the Centreís
mechanical equipment: throwing wheels, pugmills etc. He
still acts as a consultant for practitioners and is able
to provide advice and guidance on the purchase of kilns,
throwing wheels and materials, to those students intending
to set up in practice or teach after graduation.
 Graham Williamson: Technical Demonstrator
Contact: gwilliamson@uwic.ac.uk
Graduating with BA (Hons) in 1972, Graham Williamson has
successfully balanced his duties as a Technical demonstrator
with his practice as a maker of exquisitely produced pots,
which exploit an remarkable range of ceramic glazes and
other surfaces; from reduced stoneware to terra sigilatta.
He exhibits nationally and a number of his pieces feature
in important public collections, including the National
Museum and Galleries of Wales. Grahamís technical
understanding of ceramic materials and his exceptional
practical skills are put to full use; providing instruction,
guidance and advice to students and researchers alike.
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