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‘The potter’s wheel is what first attracted me to working with clay, and it is central to the way I work. Pieces are usually altered, either directly on the wheel, or at later stages of the making, but always when the clay is flexible, giving the work character and movement. Pieces are salt fired in a wood fuelled kiln over 24 hours to 1300 degrees centigrade. The decorative and firing techniques used aim to retain the vitality of the freshly made vessels and to give the surfaces subtlety and depth.

Inspiration comes from a multitude of sources - the area I live in, its mountains and the ever varying colours on them as the light shifts. From found objects such as stones, bones and shells and from the making process itself, the tactile nature of clay and time spent experimenting with form and surface.’


  

 


Mandy Parslow
 

Biography

Mandy Parslow graduated in 1994 with BA(Hons) three-dimensional design, Ceramics from Cardiff University and returned to her home county of Wexford to establish her studio pottery. In 1999 Mandy moved to her current studio and showroom in the Glen of Aherlow, Co. Tipperary, where she began working with wood fired salt glaze, building her current wood fired kiln in 2006. She has been a visiting lecturer on the Crafts Council of Ireland Pottery Skills Course in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny since 2005 and in 2009 completed an MA in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Limerick.
 


Selected Group Exhibitions:

    
  2009 Prize-winners exhibition, RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin and Touring, Ireland
 

2008

SOFA, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA
Pottering in the kitchen, Model House Gallery, Wales
  2007 17 Prime Makers, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
Clay 14, Woodbury Studio Gallery, Exeter, Devon, England
  2006

Collectors at Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
Collectors at the National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
Autour de la Table, Giroussens, France       

  2005

Collectors at Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
Christmas Presence, RDS, Dublin, Ireland

  2004

Christmas Presence, RDS, Dublin, Ireland
Bakers Dozen, Roundhouse Gallery, Derbyshire, England
Ceramic Fire Works, Tipperary Institute, Thurles, Ireland
10 Years Later.., St David's Hall, Cardiff, Wales
  2002 Winners, National Craft Competition, RDS, Dublin and Touring, Ireland
  2001

Winners, National Craft Competition, RDS, Dublin and Touring, Ireland
  2001

Winners, National Craft Competition, RDS, Dublin and Touring, Ireland
     
 

Solo exhibitions:
  2009 Hay Makers Gallery, Hay-on-Wye, England
  2006 Rufford Ceramics Centre, Nr Newark Notts, England
   
 

Public Collections:
 

Irish Embassy Collection
Hibernian Collection
         
 

Awards:

      
  2009 First prize, Ceramics (traditional), RDS National Crafts Competition.
  2004 Michael Casson Memorial award, Art in Clay, Britain
         
 
         
         
Clonbeg Lodge, Glen of Aherlow, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.  Tel/ Fax: +353 (0)62 56011  
Email: mandy@parslowpottery.com