| Artist Profile of Alice Rose |
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Artist Statement:
'I have an innate grasp of perspective and tend to think in two-dimension when designing my work, always drawing my idea first. This tendency to perceive in two dimensions, which I applied to the three dimensional form, has led to exploration in perceptions of perspective and experiments of illusion. I make my pots as if working in a two dimensional plane, using monocular vision to enhance the effect.
Whilst making and decorating I am drawing in the air with clay, then painting a picture of a pot. Consequently the piece has one ideal point of view. The use of light and dark, pattern and colour has been applied to slab, coiled, cast or thrown and flattened vessels. I use white clays as my 'canvas' to draw and paint on, furthering the illusion of roundness.
Currently I am focusing on the pottery depicted in still-life paintings. In 'still-life' pieces I have brought the vessel out from the two dimensional plane and made it three dimensional again. This brings with it a degree of distortion, the illusion of depth applied to flattened form. It is a three dimensional painting of a vessel.
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QUALIFICATIONS
1979 - 1982
Diploma of Art and Design in Ceramics, credit with highly commended, Medway College of Art and Design, Rochester, Kent, England
1928 - 1983
Workshop in North Yorkshire where I learned to refine my use of subtle colours.
EXHIBITIONS
2005 Moved to Dunedin, joined Otago Potters Group. Participated in annual show 2005 gaining two awards, selectors choice for sculpture and the Peoples Choice award for flat pots.
2006 Refined flat pots into Mirage Vases
May Exhibited at New Zealand Society of Potters Southland/Otago exhibition in Dunedin.
June Participated in Winter Solstice group exhibition, Dunedin
Oct Participated in Otago Potters Group annual exhibition
Received Peoples Choice award.
2007
May Guest potter at South Canterbury Potters Group exhibition, Timaru
Particpated in annual Plunket Art Show, Timaru
July Participated in Otago Potters Group annual exhibition, Dunedin. Received Peoples Choice award.
Aug Quirky Works two women show, Dunedin
2008
Sept Participated in Otago Potters group annual exhibition Dunedin. Received Peoples Choice award
Dec Participated in group exhibition at Moray Gallery Dunedin.
Participated in group exhibition at Masterworks gallery Auckland
2009
May Solo show at Masterworks Gallery Auckland
Nov Participated in Otago Potters Group annual exhibition Dunedin
Received Peoples Choice award
2010
May Participated in Braveheart Exhibition Auckland
Oct Plenty by Women on Form, 13 women group exhibition Dunedin
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Selected works of Alice Rose
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