Siri Ceramics
Ceramic sculpture
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Leonie Siri MacMillan obtained a MA in Film and Theatre studies from Glasgow University in 1991, followed by a diploma in Electronic Imaging from DJCAD in 1992. She produced several stop motion animated films before discovering her love of clay in the mid nineties.
She became a pottery apprentice in 1996, with Lotte Glob in Durness, Scotland . Here she learnt to throw on the potters wheel and how to fire ceramics to 1280 degrees centigrade using a gas kiln.
Since then she has been making ceramics as her main business. She makes a combination of functional ceramics and sculpture.
Siri’s work is a study of natural form and movement, often depicting mythological female characters intrinsically linked to nature.
She uses the female body as a metaphor for the adversity experienced by the planet itself.
This year Siri joined Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, with the MFA Fine Art course. She has begun an exploratory body of ceramic work retracing her Orcadian ancestry. She is creating her own mythological goddess, inspired by Selkies, Finfolk and magical islands, who aspires to find an ethereal balance between humans and nature.
Through the course she hopes to expand her work, making larger pieces that find ways to incorporate her crafting skills into sculpture.
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