Debbie Harding

*******I am an artist currently working with clay and learning handbuilding and to throw on the wheel, exploring jar/pot/vessel forms and their surfaces. Underlying themes are of ancient peoples, origins, journeys.
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 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, 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-inspiring sand grains.
*******I hope that my work stirs questions and gently widens perspectives and sensibilities.
*******For 'bread and bu...

2024-25 Ceramics classes at Yoxford Makers.
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

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