Sara Moorhouse is a ceramic artist whose work looks at how spaces within landscape are altered depending on the ever-changing colours of season, weather, time and farming.

Sara Moorhouse image

"The development of my work into ceramics, colour and spatial perception began with a Masters degree at Cardiff in 2003.

"The bowls act as a canvas for paintings that distil specific landscape scenes, perceptibly altering the size, depth and shape of the form by the applied colour. The forms can be made to seem wider or narrower, deeper or shallower, heavier or lighter, or they may appear to undulate, bend, move or hover by the juxtaposition of finer lines.

"The viewing of both inner and outer surfaces together enables me to exploit colour connections and visual play from one side to another, emphasising or flattening the dimensionality of the form."

Selected Galleries & Exhibitions

Welsh Artist of the Year, Cardiff

National Eisteddfod, Swansea

Chelsea Crafts Fair, London

Verve, Ruthin Crafts Centre, Ruthin

The 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005, Korea

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

Gallerie Dessers, Hassalt, Belgium

Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, N Wales

Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff and Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge, N Wales

Contemporary Applied Arts, London

Bluecoats Display Centre, Liverpool

Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk

Awards: prizes

05/2009
First prize in the category 'Vessel, Form, Décor' for the Ceramics for Europe

Westerwald Prize 2009, Germany: E5000

07/2006
People's Choice Award, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Swansea

06/2006
Welsh Artist of the Year Award for the Applied Arts

10/2005
First Time Exhibitor Award, Chelsea Crafts Fair

03/2005
Diploma of Honour, Honourable Mention, 3rd World Ceramic Biennale '05 Korea

Awards: funding

08/2013
Arts Council Wales Training Grant

07/2010
Art Council Wales Project Grant: £5000

05/2009
Palmer Travel Award, Colour Group of Great Britain

05/2009
Overseas Travel Award, UWIC

03/06-03/09
Bursary: PhD in Ceramics, UWIC Bars Scheme, Cardiff

03/2005
WAI Travel Award: Ceramic Biennale 2005 Exhibition, Korea