Artisan An artisan Contact cc274@st-andrews.ac.uk Author cc274@st-andrews.ac.uk Email The email address of the museum. louisenadin97@gmail.com Prim Media 2307 Field Worker Catherine Anne Cassidy Gender female Area Relation incomer Occupation ceramics Shop https://www.ardbeagceramics.co.uk/stockists Material Description wheel thrown stoneware ceramics Social Media The social media links. facebook,https://www.facebook.com/ardbeagceramics/;instagram,https://www.instagram.com/louisenadin; Wiki A link to a wiki entry about this item. https://culturality.museum/wiki/index.php/Louise_Nadin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Louise Nadin Type The nature or genre of the resource Artisan Description An account of the resource Back in the 1980’s, as part of a teacher training degree, Louise studied ceramics under the direction of Brian Dewberry and quickly progressed to wheel thrown work which became a consuming and engaging lifetime passion. Being unable to concentrate wholly on making pottery for a living, Louise set out on a career in education that included teaching, management and curriculum development of arts and crafts in a range of schools and community settings. She never lost sight of her commitment to making and over the years ensured that her skills were further developed on courses led by many eminent potters in the world of British Studio ceramics; John Leach, Josie Walter, Kyra Kane, Sebastian Blackie, Andy Mason, David and Margaret Frith, Matthew Blakeley, Nic Collins, David Roberts, Patricia Shone to name but a few and to whom she is indebted to their generosity in sharing their expertise. In 1997 a small workshop was established in Derbyshire where Louise began to develop her own style and processes in the making of wheel thrown domestic stoneware, but the limitations of a small shed became evident and the move to a more appropriate venue in Scotland, with space for the proposed wood burning kiln, happened in 2006. A bigger studio enabled a bigger output and the development of simple white porcelain proved popular with the buying public. This was encouraging, but the commitment to build the wood fired kiln went through a number of processes before finally settling on a design with support from Fergus Stewart, a brilliant potter on the west coast at Lochinver. The successful first and subsequent firings since 2019 have ensured the next chapter in the development of Ard Beag Ceramics and a determination to produce good quality, handmade, functional pottery through the exciting and tenuously manageable medium of fire. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997 Language A language of the resource English Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource cc274@st-andrews.ac.uk Subject The topic of the resource Art Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 957 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived artisans Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,58.011716412029685,-3.852220773537787; Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Country The name of the country of the data provider or “Europe” in the case of Europe-wide projects. Scotland Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Louise Nadin Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://www.ardbeagceramics.co.uk/