Nancy Fuller
Nancy Fuller was born in a rural village in Taiwan and raised in the countryside in Scotland. Her wood-fired pottery seeks to address how she has experienced this unique journey, through both her creative processes and fired results. Transplanting knowledge and techniques originating in ancient agricultural communities to a croft in Aberdeenshire, she creates traditional forms which inherently talk of a specific landscape, a time of year and herself, the maker. The presence required for making and firing informs the work and is tangible in each piece. It is her intention that their qualities are discovered and rediscovered by those encountering them, so they become timeless works of art.
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Ceramics Training
2006-2007 Nakazato Studio: Shigaraki, Japan
Studying anagama-firing and traditional Japanese ceramic techniques with Suzuki Shigeji.
2002-2005 Wenshan Ceramics Studio: Taipei, Taiwan
Studying hand-building and throwing techniques with Lu Chia-ching (Director of the Chinese Ceramics Association).
2002-2005 Jhunan Snake Kiln; Jhunan, Taiwan
Attended workshops on traditional Taiwanese techniques of processing clay, throwing, coiling and wood-firing with Lin Jui-hwa.
Education
1999 MA History of Art and Archaeology of Asia
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Art & Archaeology of the Silk Road, Approaches to Critical Interpretation and Aesthetic Theories & Special Course in Chinese.
1994 BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee.
COLLECTIONS
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Awards
2020
The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust Annual Grant
a-n The Artist’s Information Company Time Space Money Bursary
2019
Creative Scotland Open Project Grant
2019
Rural Perth & Kinross Micro Enterprise Grant
2015
Growbiz Perthshire Grant
2010
The Scottish Arts Council Professional Development Grant
2008
The Scottish Arts Council Creative Development Grant
2007
The Scottish Arts Council Professional Development Grant
2006
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant
2005
The Craft Pottery Charitable Trust Annual Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2013
A Strong Gentle Presence: Pots by Nancy Fuller – The Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy.
Group Exhibitions
May 2024
This Country – London Craft Week, Crafts Council Gallery.
February 2023
A Living Line – Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton
November 2022
Searching for Apricity– Flow Gallery, London
June 2022
Material Landscape – Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton
Oct 2021
Kogarashi: The First Cold Wind - Maud and Mabel, London
Feb 2021
Collect International Art Fair for Contemporary Craft and Design – Gallery TEN, Edinburgh
2020
Hand and Land – Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton
2019
Australian Ceramics Triennale Presenters Exhibition – Princes Wharf One, Hobart, Tasmania
2018
Cultural Confluence Presenters Exhibition – Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Montana, USA.
Wood-Fire – Clay College, Stoke-On-Trent
Plate Up – Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Devon
2015
For the Love of Summer – Tatha Gallery, Newport-On-Tay, Fife.
2014
Japanned – Gallery TEN, Edinburgh
2011
Unite – Collins Gallery, Glasgow
Group Exhibition – Garden Gallery, Hampshire
2010
International Workshop of Ceramic Art in Tokoname – INAX Live, Museum, Tokoname, Japan
2009
Summer 2009 – Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen.
2008
Nancy Fuller: Her Shigaraki Pots & Peter Swanson: Stoneware from his Anagama and Gas-fired Kilns – The Harlequin Gallery, London.
Residencies
April 2022
Township 10; North Carolina, USA
April 2019
Fire on the Ridge 2019; Ridgeline Pottery; Tasmania, Australia.
December 2010 – January 2011
The International Ceramics Research Center; Skælskør, Denmark, assisting Nakazato Takashi.
July – August 2010
The International Workshop of Ceramic Art in Tokoname; Tokoname, Japan.
December 2007 – January 2008
The Anderson Ranch Arts Center; Snowmass, USA, studying with Nakazato Takashi.
March 2006 – April 2007
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park; Shigaraki, Japan.
April 2006
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park; Shigaraki, Japan.
Conferences
August - September 2023
Invited presenter at 1st International Woodfiring Symposium at Kuu; Ceramics & Glass Centre Kuu, Finland.
May 2022
Invited demonstrator at Mountain PreHEAT, Woodfire NC Envision; North Carolina, USA
May 2019
Invited presenter and demonstrator at The Australian Ceramics Triennale; Hobart, Tasmania.
September – October 2018
Invited presenter at Cultural Confluence Wood-Fire Conference; Archie Bray for the Ceramic Arts; Montana, USA.
Articles
Ceramic Review Issue 294 Nov/Dec 2018
Ceramics | Profile Quiet Mastery by Isabella Smith.
The Log Book Issue 65 February 2016
Finding a Voice Through Woodfiring by Nancy Fuller