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2013  -  2017                Resident at Ruskin Glass Centre, making & selling, running enamel courses

2010  -  Present           Set up Design and Enamelling Business,  ‘Carol Griffin Enamels’

2009  -  Present           Enamel Workshops at:     Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum

                                                                                    New Brewery Arts, Cirencester

                                                                                    Black Country Living Museum

                                                                                    Bilston Craft  Gallery

                                                                                    Secondary Schools

                                                                                    Guild of Enamellers Conference & Region Meetings

                                                                                    Mid Wales Arts Centre


                                                                                    Private Groups & Own studio

2009      Sept               Organiser, Large Scale Enamel Panel Workshop, at AJ Wells, Isle of Wight

2006  -  2009               Chairmanship, The Guild of Enamellers UK

2011  -  2013               Guild of Enamellers Bursary Secretary

2003  -  2011               Guild of Enamellers Region 4 Rep

1981  -  2010               Design Technology Teacher , Secondary Schools, Wolverhampton (Full & Part time)

 

EDUCATION:

OCR NVQ                     Level 2  IT Course                                                                                  2009

City & Guilds               Enamelling on Copper                                                                          2003

PGCE                            Birmingham                                                                                           1981

BA (Hons)                    3D Design (Specialising in Jewellery & Silversmithing)                    1980

 

MEMBERSHIPS

Guild of Enamellers                                                                                                        
British Society of Enamellers   
Bead Society of Gt Britain                                                                                       

 

EXHIBITIONS  
2017
BSOE touring Exhibition                                                        'Enamoured'
​Goldsmiths London, Birmingham, Sheffield, 
​Mid Wales Arts Centre  

2015
Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge                                        Ruskin Collective - Tenant Exhibitions


2014
Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge                                         Black Country Echoes - Echoes of Glass exhibition
Bilston Craft Gallery, Bilston                                                  'All Fired Up'  Guild of Enamellers, Region 4
78 Derngate, Northampton                                                   BSOE exhibition
Bilston Craft Gallery                                                                'Beside the Sea'

2013
School of Jewellery, Birmingham                                          Heart of the Heat BSOE & Guild exhib.
The Heritage Centre, Macclesfield                                       The Button Project
York Theatre Royal, York                                                        Contemporary Enamel Works, BSOE

2012
Dial Glass Works, Plowden & Thompson, Stourbridge     International Glass Festival, Gallery 90 in the Store

2011
Bilston Craft Gallery & Museum                                            Craftsense 2011-2012
Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock                                        'The Heat is On', BSOE
West Ox Arts Gallery, Bampton, Oxfordshire                     Guest exhibitor with Oxford Sculpture Group
Museum voor Vlakglass-en Emaillkunst, Netherlands      Guild of Enamellers Exhibition
Broadfield House Glass Museum, West Midlands             ‘Beside the Seaside’

2010
Dial Glass Works, Plowden & Thompson, Stourbridge      International Glass Festival, Gallery 90 in the Store

2007
Broadfield House Glass Museum, West Midlands              'Gifted Show'

2006
Trackside Gallery, London                                                       'The Art of Enamel'   British Society of Enamellers

2005
The Museum of Contemporary Enamel, Salou, Spain        BSOE Invited Guests 6th International Exhibition

2002
Sutton College, London                                                            ‘Process’  BSOE Exhibition

1984 – 87
County Museum Shugborough, 
& Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery                           'Body Dazzlers'  West Midlands Arts


 

PUBLICATIONS

Craft&design magazine article                                                                        2013

Bead Society of Gt Britain magazine article                                                  2011                                                               

British Society of Enamellers Magazine, article by Pat Johnson                2006 Summer


                                                                                            

ARTIST STATEMENT


Carol Griffin Enamels                     www.carolgriffinenamels.com                           carol@carolgriffinenamels.com


I work mainly with sheet copper and vitreous enamel to create individually designed and made, wall panels, bowls, jewellery and 3D pieces.


Each piece has a unique visual and tactile quality, which I exploit and enhance, sometimes with the addition of a textured pewter setting, or the addition of frits or an embossed copper base. Some are experimental, incorporating both traditional and contemporary enamel techniques. All pieces are one-offs, some involving sifting many thin layers of enamel onto formed, often irregular copper shapes then high firing to produce an excitingly fluid, ambiguous explosion of colour and texture, only possible due to the interaction of the copper oxides with certain enamels at high temperatures.

 
Inspiration is taken mainly from my photographs, landscapes and seascapes, from telephoto to macro, often including decay and erosion, from skeletonised leaves to flakes of rusty metal and flaking paint on a worn door. The uncontrollable result of decay, over days or months or years, reveals layer upon layer of exciting textures, colour and detail, which becomes the focal point of some of my enamels.


I tend to work spontaneously, by manipulating the soft malleable copper into a variety of shapes and forms using presses and a range of paper & silversmithing tools, then experimenting with layers of enamel, liquid and powder, adding and subtracting to produce a handmade, vibrant, unique piece of art work.



 

 

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