Elaine Sheppard Bolt

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previously shown in

​black and white 2017

chalk flint clay shore 2017

winter collection 2017|18

​a contour, a curve - the lie of the land 2018

find - make 2021

gaze 2021

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display and function 2026

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Elaine Sheppard Bolt is a ceramic artist working in porcelain and stoneware to make sculptural forms and wall-pieces. Elaine uses techniques such as hand-building, throwing, colouring clays, layering slips and glazes and including found objects. Together these pieces create collections and compositions that can suggest a story or explore an idea or memory. Elaine’s current work focuses on playful narrative pieces investigating the places where nature and human activity meet, and the ways in which they alter each other. The collections invite the viewer to connect with the work, bringing their own meanings or ideas to the forms.

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Elaine originally studied for a masters degree in librarianship and worked in archival roles for twenty years. At the same time she pursued ceramics as a hobby alongside her work. In 2010 she decided to turn her love of ceramics into her career and went on to complete an MA in Contemporary Craft with Distinction at UCA Farnham. 

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After this she was selected for the Crafts Council Hothouse maker development programme and established herself as a successful ceramic artist. Elaine has worked as a Lecturer on the BA Ceramics course at the University of Brighton as a short course tutor at West Dean College and Forest Row School of Ceramics alongside developing her practice at her studio in Sussex.

 

She has run projects funded by Arts Council England, by a-n Artist Bursary and by the Quenington Sculpture Trust. Her work has been featured in Ceramic Review (Jan/Feb 2020 issue 301) and she has written articles for a number of publications.

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