Amanda Murphy Sail Dish | Serving Ornamental Ceramic

Amanda Murphy

Sail Dish | Serving Ornamental Ceramic

€31.00

Size:Small

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Pickup available at 4 Castle Street, Sligo, Ireland Usually ready in 2-4 days

4 Castle Street, Sligo, Ireland

Pickup available, usually ready in 2-4 days

4 Castle Street, Sligo, Ireland
Sligo
SO
F91 P863
Ireland

This piece has a pleasing triangular/sail shape and is decorated with a natural palette of glaze, oxides and recycled glass. Perfect table top piece for fruit, display and candles.

Amanda Murphy designs and handcrafts all of her pieces from her studio in her Waterford studio. Using oxides and coloured glass to punctuate the pieces, the creations offer what the potter calls a bird’s eye view of the landscape. They are designed meticulously designed to look like the highs and lows of an Ordinance Survey map, featuring a symbolic designed stamp on each piece.

Specifications

19cm x 16cm x 6cm high aprox

40cm x 25cm x 9cm high aprox

Each dish is sold separately.

About the Artist

"It is the wildness of the rugged Irish landscape" that inspires Amanda Murphy. And she encapsulates that inspiration in a wholly individual way; as a ceramic artist of a most particular distinction. Amanda's work is distinctively fluid; transience in a solid form it speaks of a river curving round or over flow stones, the fall-off of mountain into valley, shore sands after the tide. Her glazing techniques play with reflections, with dazzling colour bursts, with muted deep richness and texture as sunlight does across the landscape

"I found my love of clay when I was preparing a portfolio to apply for Art College in secondary school. I loved the clay in my hands and found I could really express myself with it. I then attended Crawford Art College in Cork and studied Ceramic design. After that I travelled for a while and came back to complete the Pottery Skills Course which was running in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. I worked with several potteries, Ardmore, Badger Hill and Stephen Pearce being the main ones and also started making my own pieces.

More travel followed and when myself and my husband returned to Ireland from Australia in 2008 I started making this collection full time