The countdown is on to the Dorset Team Christmas Fair which is taking place on Saturday 1stand Sunday 2ndDecember in the Allendale Centre, Wimborne.
Each week we are going to be meeting a different stallholder who will be selling at the event.
This week we meet Charlotte of Charlotte Miller Ceramics. Charlotte is a Bournemouth based ceramicist that makes budgies and other small animals in hats and knitwear!
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| Charlotte with some of her creations |
Her anthropomorphic, whimsical budgie sculptures are both endearing and nostalgic, whilst her range of quirky tableware is a tribute to the eccentric and the kitsch.
As a child, Charlotte became a keen social observer, trawling around car-boot sales with her Dad collecting curios, mid-century kitsch and seaside postcards. Amused by seeing the closeness of people and their pets, she alighted on the idea of melding the two. Thus, Brian the budgie was born out of the chance meeting of an Elvis lover and his budgerigar.
Before establishing her own pottery studio, Charlotte taught for many years as ceramics tutor on youth, community and degree courses. Through engaging with a wide demographic of students from children to the elderly, her empathy and fondness for people began to feed into her work.
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| Charlotte in her studio |
Charlotte has a broad technical language in ceramics, allowing her to accurately satirise traditional homely and domestic clay idioms. This results in the fresh and witty social commentary of her aesthetically resolved art works.
Charlotte’s love of print making and sculpture has led her to develop a range of work that concentrates on form as well as illustrative and textured surfaces. Both are influenced by her degree in Contemporary Crafts, where she studied both textiles and ceramics. Charlotte also has a PGCE and teaches ceramics classes from her studio in Bournemouth.
The budgies and other creatures are created by using a combination of press molding and hand sculpting techniques. She uses a stoneware body with underglaze, engobe, earthenware glaze, decal and lustre decoration. All these are made from her Bournemouth studio.
Come and meet Charlotte and our 60+ other stallholders at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on both Saturday 1stand Sunday 2ndDecember.
More information can be found on our Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1994393970585608/
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