Ceramics of Sue Mifsud

Sue Mifsud

Ceramics is a very tactile art form with limitless possibilities.

I started working with the medium in 1993 and still feel like a wide eyed child at Christmas when I open a new bag of clay or a newly fired kiln full of work.

My introduction to clay was in Malta through ceramist Anna Ciavola, who over a period of 5 years got me hooked on wheel thrown work and in 1998, when I took an evening class at Targa Gap with George Muscat, I started to dabble with hand building.

My education still continues and in September 2005 I started a distance learning BA (Hons) Degree course in Ceramic Design at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, which takes 6 fun packed years to complete.

The residential visits to Glasgow are always very focused and intensive with lecturers coming from various parts of the globe to teach us an extensive array of techniques and new ways of getting up to our ears in clay – what more can a girl ask for!

At the moment I have no preference for technique or clay and am currently working on hand built and moulded sculptures, mosaics, extruded tiles, thrown functional ware and a bathroom sink!

My palette of glazes is (for the time being) stable, with a collection of vibrant colours that I’ve created over the last couple of years; I mix them myself preferring not to buy standard glaze colours off the shelf.

I also have a free and easy attitude towards firing, during the cold winter days I depend on my electric kilns, but the warmer months mean excellent days for pit firing, raku firing and hopefully my pile of fire bricks will one day miraculously turn into a wood firing kiln.

The technique, clay and firing method all depend on the envisioned aesthetics of the piece I want to create.

All aspects of ceramics gives me great pleasure and it has become a deeply embedded passion.

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