Michelle Lowe

Art House 42
Address: 57 Coillesdene Avenue
Open: 7/8 September

Lively colourful slipware pots that are made for use. The pieces have fun, illustrative decorations with themes including hedgerow plants and berries, wild swimming, bikes, and pottery collections.

Michelle makes colourful contemporary slipware pots with sgraffito and slip decoration. She works from her garden studio in Joppa. All her work is handmade in warm red earthenware clay which is coated in a creamy clay slip and then decorated with coloured slips oxides and glazes. Most of her pieces are thrown on a pottery wheel and a few are hand-built from slabs. She aims to make pots that are useful and beautiful and hopes to encourage people to enjoy the small daily comforts of hand-crafted objects in the sharing of a pot of tea or a home cooked meal.

Michelle has worked as a professional potter for over a decade after coming to ceramics by a round-about route via a background in Social Anthropology and a first career working for human rights and social justice charities. She trained as an assistant to Bärbel Dister at Cromarty Pottery. She is a member of the Scottish Potters Association, a selected member of the Craft Scotland Directory, Applied Arts Scotland and Find a Maker. She exhibits regularly in galleries across Scotland and occasionally further afield.

Some recent/forthcoming exhibitions include:

‘Habitat and Home’ Charlie Cummings Gallery 2024 USA and online
‘Anew’ The Watermill, Aberfeldy 2024
Roots and Wings Resipole Studios, Ardnamurchan 2024
Clay North East, Barn at Banchory, Aberdeenshire 2024
Potfest Scotland, Scone Palace 2024
Twenty Years, Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright 2024
Summer Group Exhibition Number Four, St Abbs 2024

Events

Pottery Demonstration Saturday 7^th Sept 11am

Michelle will demonstrate some of her pottery techniques including throwing pieces on the wheel and decorating her work using slips and sgraffito (drawing illustrations in to the clay with a sharp needle tool). (free)

Play with clay and willow

There will be clay and tools available at a table in the garden for children to get their hands dirty. Finished pieces can be fired for a donation to Refugee Sanctuary Scotland.

Refreshments

Tea, coffee and cake available all weekend in the garden for a donation to Refugee Sanctuary Scotland

Website: www.michellelowepottery.co.uk

Instagram: @michellelowepottery

Contact: info@michellelowepottery.co.uk