Annie
Woodford
studied Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art,
where she received a travel scholarship. Shortly after graduating, she
had her first solo show at the Royal Overseas League and the Anatol
Orient Gallery, London, began to represent her work, introducing it to
collectors in the both the U.K. and the U.S.A. Since then,
Woodford’s
work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included
in private and public collections worldwide.
Profiled
in ‘Breaking the Mould- New Approaches to Ceramics, (Black
Dog
Publishing 2007) which investigates ceramic artists working at the
cutting edge of their discipline, her innovative objects and
installations have received international acclaim. In 2008 she won the
Bronze Award in the Taiwan International Ceramics Competition and in
2009, a collection of her pieces was included in the World Contemporary
Ceramics exhibition at the World Ceramic Biennale, Korea. Widely
traveled, she
has carried out research projects in the Arctic,
Iceland and most recently New Zealand where she undertook an
investigative study on the Franz Josef glacier.
Introduced
to printmaking by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, who was her tutor,
it has become an integral part of her practice and she continues to
develop the medium alongside object making, using it to explore the
themes and concerns fundamental to her work. Short-listed
for
major awards, Woodford’s etchings and collagraphs are
part of several important print collections and recently she has begun
to explore the medium of artists’ books -
amalgamating the
two-dimensional with the three- dimensional.
Annie
Woodford April 2010
“...
an artist such as Annie Woodford, who has won international
acclaim both for her ceramics and printmaking....makes us question what
we know and have come to expect of ceramic art. Have we seen these
forms in nature? What is Woodford seeing that we are missing? Her mind
and fingers discover realms that we aspire to find, a delicacy and
sensitivity that makes us look anew at microscopic detail, intricacies
that only nature and an artist could produce. . . . Annie Woodford is
such an artist.”
(Janet
Mansfield,
President International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland)
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