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Patricia Millar

 

Born in Belfast under the shadow of the Cavehill, Patricia's interest lies in the ancient past. A childhood playing around Bronze Age sites, digging clay and making bowls hardened in bonfires, have shaped her ceramic practice of today.

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Site specific locations such as bog land, ice age shoreline and basalt coast offer rich pickings in clays, organics and gravels. 

Led by materiality, her work celebrates form, colour and texture of their geological and anthropological origins. 

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Relocating from the Ards Peninsula, her new studio and home is be near the village of Lisnagunogue on the famous Causeway Coast route.

Earth Made exhibition with Ruth Osborne, Oriel Gallery

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EXHIBITIONS​

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EARTH MADE Arts Council NI supported collaborative exhibition with textile artist, Ruth Osbourne

Oriel Gallery 2024, invited to show Georgian Gallery 2024

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Causeway Craft Trail Artists, Flowerfield Arts Centre 2024

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Collect Open, Crafts Council Somerset House, London 2023

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Craft NI Craft NI Gallery Select Exhibition, 

2023 Spring Collectors' Showcase, 2023, 22 August Craft Month, 2020 Ceramic Showcase

 

Ceramics Ireland Select Members’ Exhibitions, Dublin Castle, Cowshed Gallery, Pearce Museum

2023, 22, 21,19, 18, 17, 16, 15

 

North Down Craft Collective Exhibition North Down Museum, Ards Arts Centre, Griffin Gallery, The Loft Gallery

2023, 22, 20, 18

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Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum 2020, 2015

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Thrown Contemporary Winter Show, London 2020

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Mother Earth, Strule Arts Centre 2023

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Creative Peninsula Principal Exhibition, Ards Arts Centre 2021,19, 18, 17, 16, 15

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Copeland Collective, 3rd, 4th and 5th Wave Exhibitions- Haptik Gallery, Carnegie Library, North Down touring exhibition 2019,17,16

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ForM Sculpture Exhibition, Walled Garden, Bangor 2018,17,16

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Puffin Gallery, Ballycastle 2017

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Five Create @ Studio Eight, Bangor 2017

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Solo Exhibition, Loft Gallery “Working with the elements” 2017

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Creative Momentum, representing Northern Ireland, The Art Hub, Urkult, Sweden 2016

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Castle Espie Select Exhibition, Nature through Art 2016

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Haptik Gallery, Small Works Show 2016

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Fireland The Loft Gallery 2015

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AWARDS​

 

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individual Artist Award 2024 

 

Crafts Potters Association Charitable Trust to attend Kiln building course at Wytham Woods, Oxford University

2023

 

Design Craft Council of Ireland, Design Ireland 2022

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Artists Resilience Funding, Arts Council of Northern Ireland 2021

 

The Potters’ Potter Award, Belfast Potters’ Market 2023,21

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Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individual Artist Award to build a wood fired kiln 2019

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Individual Artist’s Grant, Ards and North Down Borough Council Wood & soda firing course with Nic Collins & Sabine Nemet, Barn Pottery, Devon 2019

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Work selected for Poster Campaign, The Creative Peninsula, Ards Arts 2019

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Selected Maker for Scarva Pottery Supplies Calendar 2017

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Nominated as “One to Watch” Craft NI for BBC NI The Arts Show 2016

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Representing Northern Ireland, Creative Momentum, Arts Hub, Urkult, Sweden 2016

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Margaret Creevy Prize “Best Achievement in Applied Art” South Eastern Regional College 2014

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RESIDENCES

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Awarded Residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation , Co. Mayo by Ards and North Down Borough Council 2021

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Copeland Island residency in association with Copeland Island Observatory & Ards Arts 2016

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COMMISSIONS

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Trophies for Signal Business Centre, Young Chef of the Year 2019

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Collaboration with the National Trust, Mount Stewart creating exclusive site specific work for shop

Current from 2018

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"Bogland" Lectern commissioned by Seamus Heaney, HomePlace, The Helicon Theatre

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COLLECTIONS

 

​Permanent collection of pit fired and Bogland work, The Portico, Portaferry

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PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

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Speaker Earth Rising Irish Museum of Modern Art

 "Exhibiting at Collect Open", Maker talk Guest speaker CraftNI

Artwalk guest speaker, EARTH MADE Exhibition

2024

 

Selected Collect Open maker to speak at Collect Art Fair, Somerset House, "Traditions lost, new creativity found"

2023

 

Featured ceramic artist in "Irish Ceramics, The very best of Irish contemporary ceramics book"

2021

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Guest speaker, West Forest Potters Guild

2021

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Featured artist in Ireland's Homes, Interiors & Lifestyle magazine

2021

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Featured artist, Ceramics Ireland “Celebrating 40 years of maker and community”

2019

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Invited demonstrator, BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time

2019

 

Featured Artist, BBC Countryfile Autumn Special

2018

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Featured artist, Freckle Magazine

2018

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“One to watch” BBC NI The Arts Show

2016

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SELECTED DESIGNER-MAKER

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​Craftworks, Shoreditch

2024

 

Art in Clay, Farnham

2024,23

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Ceramic Wales

2024

 

Celebrating Ceramics, Waterperry Gardens

2024,23

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Potfest Pots by the Lake, Compton Verney 2024 

Potfest Scotland 2023,22

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FE McWilliams Gallery

2023

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Belfast Potter's Market

2024,23,22,21

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Art on the rails, Project 24, Bangor

2021​

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NCC&G Artisan Craft market, Ballycastle

2021

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CLAY 20: Festival of Clay, Devon

2020

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The Guildhall, Derry Art fair

2019, 18, 17

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FE McWilliams Gallery

2023,19, 18, 17

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Creative Peninsula

2021, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15

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Turf and Grain Magazine Select Artisan Fair

2019

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Armagh Arts Centre Craft Fair

2018,17

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Etsy Local

2018

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Art&, York

2016

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Creative Hub, Urkult, Sweden

2016

 

ND Craft Collective, Permanent maker

Present from 2016

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TEACHING, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOP FACILITATOR

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Current from 2015 Pit Firing, Barrel firing & Obvara workshops from own studio

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August Craft Month, demonstrator Bushmills

2024

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Celebrating Ceramics, Oxford, demonstrator

2024,23

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Art on the Rails, Project 24, Bangor

2021

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CLAY 20: Festival of Clay, Devon

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Maker Showcase, The Craftroom shop window, Comber

2020

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“Hands Festival” An Creagan Pit firing workshop

2019

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Experimental Archaeology, QUB, facilitator Building a Bronze Age Kiln 

2018

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Speaker at Ceramics & it’s future Symposium, Millennium Gallery

2017

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Speaker Creative Trails App launch, Creative Momentum, FE McWilliam’s Gallery

2017

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Demonstrator, Celebrating Ceramics, Oxford

2023

 

Demonstrator, Seamus Heaney HomePlace Museum

2017

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Demonstrator, Open House Festival, Bangor

2018,17

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Heritage Craft, Pottery Thrower

2018,17

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Creative Peninsula Open Studio Tours

2018,17,16

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Demonstrator Antrim & Larne, Ards & North down Borough Councils

2019,18,17,16

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On-going from 2014 A’Level Art and Applied Art Portfolio work, selected artist and workshop facilitator

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Head of Key Stage 1 & Foundation, Art Co-Ordinator, Comber Primary School

1988-2014

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