Debbie Harding

*******I am an artist currently working with clay exploring handbuilding and throwing on the wheel. I am making unfired jar/pot/vessel forms with experimental surfaces. Underlying themes are currently of groups, populations of pots/people, materials cycles of life, fragility/strength, impermanence/permanence.
I am documenting this current work to a dedicated Instagram account ('at'allinthe.art) to show how a/this body of artwork gradually comes into being. I sense this will be work over several years.
I feel arts and creativity are very important for people to actively experience and make non-rational discoveries in a world where this mode of learning is increasingly side-lined. I'm interested in art and dementia.
*******I work/have worked with a variety of materials and processes; photography, paper, book arts and the written word, glass, built sculpture, and natural or recycled materials.
*******For my 'Glass and Light' series here, I have revisited earlier work, particularly of the Australian 'Sculpture by the Sea' 2013/14 exhibitions.
******My photography, 'Real/Unreal' series, 'Dynamic Earth' series, 'Opus Magnum' series, is about world beaches visited, their visual 'outer' landscapes, and their 'inner' microscopic awe-inspi...

2024-26 Clay/pottery/ceramics classes
2023-24 Diploma (2 units) online non-fiction Creative Writing, Cambridge University Dept. Cont. Education.
2023 Creative Writing non-fiction 12 week course online at the National Centre for Writing Norwich.
2021 Single module of MA Sophia Centre for Cosmolgy in Culture, University of Wales Trinity St David (online).
2008 Foundation Degree in Fine Art. Hereford College of Arts, University of Wales
2003 Glass Art 1 yr course, at The International Glass Centre, West Midlands, UK
1990's Design & materials courses in sustainable building and renewable energy Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales
1990 BSc Hons. Psychology, University of London, UK
1982 Registered Nurse (child and adolescent), London, UK

EVENTS
Aug 2026 - Artist Studio Residency at Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia.
Oct 2016 - April 2020 Arts and Crafts tutor, with Cruise and Maritime Voyages, UK to Fremantle x2 and return, and shorter cruises. April 2020 cruise cancelled due to pandemic.
Feb 2016 - Artist Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, Toronto, Canada.
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016 Artist Studio Residency at Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia.
2013/2014 Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney and Cottesloe Perth, Artists workshops with schools' programme

EXHIBITIONS Most recent years:
2024 Sand Microphotography, Britten Pears Arts 'Summer Contemporary' group exhibition, at Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, UK
2021 Stained Glass, Grundisburgh House Gallery with Butley Mills Studios, Suffolk, UK
2018 'Real / Unreal', Bath Photography Festival, at Fringe Arts Bath, UK
2016 'SPECTRUM', Ark Centre, Basingstoke, UK
2015 'Darkness and Light', Love and Death @ Walcot Chapel, Fringe Arts Bath, UK
2014 'Ocean Cathedral', International Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2014, Perth Australia
2013 'Ocean Cathedral', International Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013, Sydney Australia
2013 'Resonance', Ark Centre, Basingstoke, UK