Caroline Fisher Projects: Katie Spragg

Caroline Fisher Projects
A ‘Clay Conversation’ with ceramicist Katie Spragg, hosted by Assembly Online
Thursday 7 January from 7.30pm
In this talk, Caroline will outline the development of Caroline fisher Projects over the last two years and she will be joined by Katie Spragg for a ‘Clay Conversation’, revealing details of an exciting new collaboration and discussing how ceramics can engage communities.
Caroline Fisher Projects was set up in 2018 as a small gallery space in Norwich with the aim of showing exhibitions of sculptural and functional ceramics. However it has become much more than simply the gallery space and has embraced events in the form of ‘Clay Conversations’ in Norwich and Venice, site related projects and online activity.
Caroline Fisher is Subject Leader for the MA in Curation at Norwich University of the Arts and founded Caroline Fisher Projects in 2018.
Caroline originally trained as a doctor before studying fine art at Central St Martins College of Art and taking a MA in Museum Studies at the University of East Anglia. She has worked for Wellcome Trust, the British Museum and was Curator of East Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts until 2018. Alongside employment she has a practice as a freelance curator, running the residency project, Bolwick Arts between 2002-2007 and curating two exhibition projects for the National Trust at Felbrigg Hall- The Makers and The Tourists. More recently she curated Woven Waters, part of the Broads Authority’s programme, Water Mills and Marshes. Caroline continues to create opportunities for artists both online and in the real world with the aim of bringing to light new ways of working with ceramics and engaging communities.
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Katie Spragg
Combining clay with a range of processes including animation and installation, Katie Spragg creates work that aims to arouse curiosity. Her current work explores our relationship with nature; specifically, the ways that humans and plants co-exist - how we attempt to curate nature, yet it grows and thrives beyond human ordering.
Through workshops and projects, Katie often creates work in response to collaboration and participation of other people, most recently with Lambeth Young Carers and through the Clay for Dementia scheme at the Garden Museum where she was commissioned to create Lambeth Wilds (2019), an Arts Council and National Lottery Heritage funded project
Katie’s catalogue of work includes work purchased V&A Museum collection (2017), a permanent installation for the Garden Museum (2019) and commissions for the British Ceramics Biennale (2017) and Sotheby’s (2018) as well as numerous private collections and
commissions. Her work has been exhibited by the Craft Council in London and Miami (2017), included in the British Council’s touring Film Festival and presented at solo shows at Blackwell, Arts and Crafts House (2018), the Garden Museum (2018) and Pi Artworks (2019).
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