Fleur Schell

Fleur Schell Artist Statement

Through the medium of porcelain my work reinterprets the world through a child’s eyes. From the moment I began raising young children they have influenced how I see the world and the art I make. Magical thinking, unimpossible thoughts and vulnerability are themes I explore through clay. I continue to reference my own childhood and the pressure I felt of growing up too fast in an adult world with feelings of uncertainty about the future.

Biography
Fleur Schell is an internationally established ceramic artist and lives with her family in her studio/ home in Perth Western Australia (WA) . She was raised on a farm near the wheatbelt town of Goomalling in WA. Fleur has always loved clay and some of her earliest memories are of building clay monsters on the edge of a dam on her families property. She was sent to MLC to attend boarding school at the age of 12 before pursuing seven years of tertiary study in the arts across Australia.

Her qualifications include a Diploma of Ceramic Art and Design from the Western Australian School of Art and Design, a degree in Visual Arts from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia and a First Class Honours Post Graduate in ceramics from the University of Tasmania Australia.

Over the past decade Fleur Schell has founded SODA International Ceramic Residency and The Clay House Ceramics Centre to nurture the Ceramic Arts of Western Australia. Fleur’s artistic career has spanned nearly three decades and enabled her to live, work and present in China, Singapore, Finland, Canada, United States, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. Her work has been published in numerous books and journals and is represented in private and public collections throughout the world.

Country: Australia

Artist Category: Ceramic Artists

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