Details

First Name

Tracey

Last Name

Johnston

Nickname

Ceramicstracey

My Ceramics

In the studio I like to do

Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Slip casting, Sculpting

Pottery Wheel

Rhode

Clay body

Earthenware, Stoneware, Porcelain

Clay Brand

St Patricks range & Wild clay

Kiln Type

Electric Kiln, Gas Kiln

Kiln Atmosphere

Reduction Atmosphere, Oxidation Atmosphere

Temperature

1100 – 1300 degrees c

Glaze

Lots of different glazes depending on my artistic depiction of the landscape I am representing.Mostly make my own 

You can buy my work from

http://www.traceyjohnstonceramics.com

 

https://craftni.org/makers/tracey-johnston/

About Me

Introduction

I’m a ceramic landscape artist from Northern Ireland, specifically the Ulster coastline.

What I Love about Ceramics

It’s diversity and permanent existence

How I started with ceramics

Looking for a form of art that I could master

What inspires me

Nature

What I'm working on at the moment

For my degree in ceramics I completed a body of work based around Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.  I am currently extending this work and other areas of the Ulster coastline. 

My Artist Statement

I’m a ceramic landscape artist who takes an anthropological approach to research that informs my site specific work.

My CV

Professional Activities

2023 – Ulster Tatler Awards 

2023 –  Awarded best new comer Craft NI at Pathways exhibition 

2022 – Present – Teach Evening Class at Ards & Down art centre 

2022 – Ulster Tatler Awards 

2022 –  AFHEA 

2021- Present – Teach Short Course Ceramics at Ulster University, Belfast 

2022 –  Graduate in Residence Ulster University

2021 – Ulster Tatler Awards  

2021 – Associate ceramist to Derek Wison

2021 – Ulster University Edge Award

2020 – Assistant potter and teacher to the ‘NOW’ Group

2020 – Recipient of the Richard K Degenhardt Scholarship

2018/19 – Dean’s List for Academic Year 2018/19

2019 – Ceramic masterclass with Alberto Bustos

2014 – 2017 – Full-time charity work in Italy for Presbyterian Church in Ireland

2015 – Full time Study of Italian at Idea Verona, Verona, Italy

2014 – Sharpening your interpersonal skills (1 week residential)

2004 – 2014 – Senior Sales, Retail

2002 – 2004 – Craft Lecturer of Out centres for the Upper Bann Institute

Publications

2023 – Northern Ireland Interiors 

2023 – Ulster Tatler 

2022 – Eye News 

2021 – Irish Ceramics by John Goode

2019 – Director of operations – La Bibbia Racconta Gesu

2019 – Ceramic Ireland – Issue 44 (page 58)

Exhibitions

2023 – 142nd Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition at Ulster Museum Belfast 

2023 – Ards Peninsula Arts Centre 

2023 – North Down Museum 

2023 – Pathways Exhibition Craft Ireland 

2021 – 140th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition at Ulster Museum, Belfast

2021 – New Generation Gallery, Irish Arts Review

2021 – Craft Gallery NI

2021 – Ards and North Down, Town Hall

2021 – North Down Museum

2019 – 139th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition at Ulster Museum, Belfast

Gallery

Craft Gallery NI

Gallery 1608, Bushmills

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