Pamela Pudan
Ceramics & Glass MA
Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Ceramics
Location: London, United Kingdom
Pamela Pudan
First Name: Pamela
Last Name: Pudan
Specialisms: Ceramics
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: Ceramics & Glass MA
About
I am a ceramic maker based in the UK. I lived in Sydney for 20 years, where I studied creative writing and trained as a psychoanalyst. It was while taking a break from my career that I first encountered ceramics, and what started as a casual interest soon became a burgeoning obsession. I completed a Diploma in ceramics in 2011 and spent the following few years taking part competitions and exhibitions, and making commission pieces. I completed an MA in Ceramics at the Royal College of Art in 2023.
I am interested in exploring anomaly and the place that it has in our society - how it can occupy its own space, affirm its own existence, claim its own beauty. My work comes from my experience of growing up in a family with disabled parents, and the way that experience has shaped who I am and what I make. From this starting point I hope to visit questions that are relevant to us all - those of belonging, otherness, protectiveness and growth. The use of hand building methods such as pinching and press moulding allows me to create complex sculptural pieces that reference, but do not mimic, natural growth patterns. By using a commonality of building blocks, patterns are established which can then be subverted, establishing a nod to cell division and anomaly. My aim is to create pieces which are related but all unique and complex, drawing a link to the complexity we all carry, as bodies, as selves, as members of groups. “I shall never be Different. Love me.” (excerpt from Hymn to St. Cecilia, W.H. Auden)
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