BIOGRAPHY

Name: Wednesday Weekly pottery class
Start: 2025-01-15
End: 2025-02-19
Location: Sarah Core Arts

Sarah Core is an award-winning British ceramic artist who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Ceramic Design.

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University of the Arts London BA(Hons), Ceramic Design, 2010–2013 Middlesex University BA(Hons), English and Literary Studies with the History of Ideas, 1994-1997
The Crystal Healer: Philip Permutt “Britain’s leading crystal expert” Meditation Teacher Training, completed January 2014 Crystal Master Teacher, completed June 2013
Has also studied under Sandy Brown Duncan Hooson
Collections Private collection, Nuneaton Private collection, Liverpool Private collection, London
2022
January ff	Mindfulness through clay Online clay workshop series	Workshop
2021
December	Physical Exhibition: Courtyard Arts Members Show, Hertford
November	Groundwork East (project initiated November 2020) Shepreth Station	Public commission
June	Living Crafts, with Clay with Carole Hatfield House
June – November	Groundwork East (project initiated August 2020) Houghton Regis, at the source of Houghton Brook	Public commission / workshop
June – November	Groundwork East (project initiated August 2020) Houghton Regis, at the source of Houghton Brook	Public commission / workshop
March	LEAP, Pinch Pot Paradise Online clay workshop	Corporate workshop
January – March	BLESMA, Pinch Pot Paradise Three online clay workshops	Workshop
2020
December	Serenity Radio Interview feature on the health benefits of working with clay, with Amanda Joy Harrison, interview available on buzzsprout here.	Radio interview feature
October – November	Physical Exhibition: The Second Edition Highgate Contemporary Art, London
October	Hertford Art Trail
June	In conversation with WeFind Local.co.uk, interview with Rob Lacey	Feature article
May – June	Covid -19: Lockdown 1 Mindful clay Conceived delivered online mindful clay workshops, via Zoom.	Educator
March ff	Covid-19: Lockdown 1 Clay at home parcels #stayathome	Educator
2019
September	Open Studios – Herts Visual Arts
July	Red House – Community Craft National Trust, Bexleyheath
June	Wake up Whetstone ‘Make and take with clay’, Whetstone High Road, London
April	Courtyard Arts Open Exhibition, Courtyard Arts Centre, Hertford
April – May	Hertford Art Trail
April – June	Big Art Showcase, New Maynard Gallery, Welwyn Garden City
May	Living Crafts, Hatfield House
April	An introduction to my work: Hertford Art Trail, Hertford Castle	Talk
February	Nude of Fully Clothed, Nude Tin Can Gallery, St Albans
2018
September	Open Studios – Herts Visual Arts
	‘Behind the studio door’, by Sandra Smith, Hertfordshire Life magazine	Magazine article
2016
August	Society of Designer Craftsmen – Designer Crafts at the Mall The Mall Galleries
January – March	Going Solo, by Paul Bailey ‘Emerging Potters’	Magazine feature
2015
October ff	(2015-2016) Relax and Recharge with pottery Conceived and presented my own adult learning programme the Millfield Art Centre in north London. Monthly adult learning: · Step by step approach to clay building methods · improving our relationship with ourselves and the world around us The series focused on relaxation and recharging through hands on learning of the core clay curriculum and relaxation exercises during each session.	Educator
October	Industrial Nature: new works by Sarah Core Society of Designer Craftsmen Gallery, London	Solo exhibition
September	TENT London, London Design Festival, Old Truman Brewery
April	Art in Mind: Freedom, The Brick Lane Gallery
January	Society of Designer Craftsmen – Designer Crafts at the Mall 2015 The Mall Galleries London, SW1
2014
September	TENT London 2014, London Design Festival, Old Truman Brewery
September	In clay with Sarah Core, by Christian Sinnspiel http://sinnspiel.net/2014/09/in-clay-with-sarah-core/	Blogger feature
June	Craft and Design Fair West Dean featuring MADE, West Dean – The Edward James Foundation, Chichester
June	Joy of Sound ‘My house your house: Casa Mia Casa Tua’ St Peters Heritage Centre, Vauxhall, SE11 5HYWorking with volunteers and art therapists, the workshop celebrated house and home.Images and feelings associated with home were explored visually in surface and relief making by participants and facilitators. The aims for the workshop were to imagine and re-imagine images of home that we can all share and celebrate together. Through bringing facets of our homes together in a symbolic gesture and individual and collective narratives were drawn out, explored and reflected upon. The model homes were saved towards the end of the workshop series.	Art therapy workshop
May – August	One day workshops, Meditation MAKE Guided meditations inform taught making exercises. Participants learned to let go of the end product and to work with their creativity in the moment, experiencing hands-on making with one or more of the core clay skills.	Workshop
2013
October	3 Faiths Forum Urban Dialogues, Red Gallery, Shoreditch
September	TENT London, London Design Festival, Old Truman Brewery
June – September	Sculptural Ceramics, Pangolin London
July	Clay Cargo, Clayground Collective The Skip Garden and The Fordham Gallery
July	‘I work with my heart but I reach with my hands’, Shedlight Productions https://vimeo.com/69348401	Film
April – June	‘The surface glittered out of heart of light’, April – June 2013 Consultation with Princess Royal Trust – Coventry Carers Centre Conceived and presented drawing workshops with service users with the following outcomes: · Graphic expressions of care by workshop participants · Integration of my graphic expressions with work of participants · Bone china tryptic sculpture fusing graphical expressions as surface pattern on ceramic tableware. These workshops accessed the hidden world of unpaid carers, a demographic that saves the NHS £123 billion (https://carersuk.stagingbox.co.uk/news-and-campaigns/press-releases/unpaid-carers-save-the-uk-132-billion-a-year-the-cost-of-a-second-nhs)	Workshop
2012
July	Marathon Make, Clayground Collective, Morley Gallery, London
June	‘All quiet on the domestic front’, essay by Sarah Core Selected for the library of The Geffreye Museum, London	Writing

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