Felicity AYLIEFF

View in collection Born in Bedfordshire, UK, Felicity Aylieff is a graduate of Bath Academy of Art and the Royal College of Art. She was the first Ceramics and Glass student at the RCA to be awarded an MPhil research degree.  She was appointed Senior Tutor at the RCA in the Ceramics and Glass programme in 2001 and made a Fellow of the RCA in 2008. Education in ceramics has been of great importance to her and she has been a member of and an adviser on numerous committees including the Crafts Council and NACHE. She is a trustee of the Craft Potters Charitable Trust and a board member of the acquisitions committee of the Crafts Study Centre in Farnham. She has work in numerous international private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum.  She has worked collaboratively with a manufacturer in China, in Jingdezhen, renowned for its blue and white painting on porcelain, and in 2010 co-founded the Red House Design Studio with Takeshi Yasuda. Her work shows a particular interest in hand-forming processes, large scale mould making and surface treatments,  blurring of boundaries between ceramics and sculpture. Work purchased for the Collection  in 2010 demonstrates her interest in looking at ways to create voluminous form and optical surface pattern.

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• Dates: b. 1954