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STORY OF AN ARTIST
Once upon a time there lived a potter. A potter is what she called herself, but in truth she just was someone who simply loved to create. Having dabbled in card making, sewing, knitting, life-drawing, photography and a host of other creative knishes she finally discovered the wondrous allure of the lowly potters wheel.
Despite the disappointment of her Art foundation tutor, with a penchant for precision maquette making, she muddled away day after day in the belief that she'd found her calling.
As luck would have it it so happened that two accomplished potters were lurking in plain sight all this time. And this is where her journey began.
Rose Wallace, Ceramic Artist, 2011
In response to Laura's Graduate Work
Ceramicist Laura Manners has profound qualities rare in someone of her generation: the appreciation of craft-skills and the determination to challenge perceptions.
Her degree show demonstrates this acquired maturity; entitled ‘Senium Senguinity’ she states is ‘centred on the vessel-form as an object of contemplation’.
With her mantra that ‘crafting and skill are paramount’, Manners builds on these craft traditions, deliberately reinterpreting purpose and context with humility.
She holds memories of an idyllic childhood within verdant Nottinghamshire countryside, darkened by personal loss but candidly, she admits to gaining ‘strength through resilience’.
Experience has heightened her observations and widened parameters of ‘beauty’, Manners has meticulously documented visual evidence of the decay of Nottingham’s textile industry juxtaposed alongside residues of the once-opulent Ossington Hall, afforded from its existence.
Appreciating brevity of the man-made world and the natural beauty that invades and resolves its remains, has been her carefully executed aim succinctly delivered in these vessels.