NC Mountains Pre-Conference Artist

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Nancy Fuller is Taiwanese by birth but was raised in the North East of Scotland. Having trained as a printmaker, she went on to attain a Masters in the History of Art and Archaeology of Asia in 1999 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. 

A Chinese language scholarship took her back toTaiwan in 2000 to explore her roots and whilst there she found a sense of connection through the ancient ways of pottery. After studying at various studios her discovery of anagama-fired pottery was like the missing jigsaw piece. In addition to language, culture and tradition, it embraced the natural environment, and in essence revealed the Taiwan she was looking for through the medium of wood-firing. Her quest to build her own kiln resulted in her undertaking a year-long training with anagama master Suzuki Shigeji in Shigaraki, Japan, supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. 

During her training she was also a resident artist at the Shigaraki Cultural Ceramic Park and it was there that she met Karatsu master, Nakazato Takashi. Realising his ‘Nanban’ aesthetic might suit the clays available to her in the UK, she studied reduction cooling with him at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, USA, through support from the Scottish Arts Council. All her work is fired in an anagama which she designed and built herself on a croft in rural Aberdeenshire.  

www.nancyfuller.co.uk

@nancyfullerpottery