Vicky Lindo and Bill Brookes

View in collection  Vicky trained in illustrated textile design but was inspired to make ceramics when she encountered North Devon slipware pottery in the Burton Museum in Bideford, where she worked as a museum assistant. In 2012 she began to make small pots assisted by her partner Bill who was then a woodworker. Within four years they had established a full-time practice in Devon, creating larger scale slip-cast ceramics combining text and imagery inspired by mythology, folklore and the natural world. Vicky frequently uses sgraffito - scratching designs through a layer of slip to reveal a contrasting colour underneath.  Vicky Lindo had explored a personal narrative about her father’s experience as a Jamaican in Britain in previous work which won the BCB Award prize in 2019 with her partner Bill Brookes.  After the invitation to work with the School of Art collections Vicky and Bill visited Aberystwyth during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2021 and again in 2022. The work they produced related to pattern and shape in pioneer ceramicist Frances Richard’s work and narratives in printmaker Chris Penn’s work. They had an exhibition Conscious Dreaming in 2023 during the International Ceramics festival. Vicky writes:  ‘Penn's dreamlike prints are full of surreal narrative, something we were drawn to immediately, her style coming directly from her hand. While Richards’ ceramics are somewhat opposite, calming meditations, juxtaposed to the wild energy of Penn. Her restrained and considered colours and patterns are subtly applied to minimal yet complex pots.’    

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• Dates: b.1980