Ben Murdock Ceramics

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Education
 
BTEC Diploma in Art and Design at Newcastle College of Art, 1999
 
BA(Hons) Design and Applied Arts at Edinburgh College of Art, 2002
 
Postgraduate Diploma at Edinburgh College of Art, 2003
 
 
Exhibitions
 
 
Collyer-Bristow Gallery, London 2003
 
Setting Out, Contemporary Ceramics, London 2003
 
New Designers, London 2003
 
Talente 2004, Munich, Germany
 
The Glasshouse, Edinburgh 2004
 
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 2004
 
The Royal Scottish Academy 2005
 
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, May and December 2009
 
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen 2009
 
Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh 2010
 
TENT London, London September 2010
 
The Royal Scottish Academy 2010
 
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, December 2010
 
Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh 2011
 
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle March 2011
 
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen October 2011
 
Lustre Nottingham, November 2011
 
City Art Centre, Edinburgh November 2011
 
Forthcoming publications
 
Humour in Craft (USA) 2012
 
 
 
 
 

Awards/Prizes

 

Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship 2002

 

David Cantor Travel Prize, Setting Out 2003

 

Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award 2003

 

Princes Trust 2004

 

Scottish Arts Council Funding to attend Talente 2004

 

Craft Maker Awards, Edinburgh City Council 2010

 

Creative Scotland (formerly Scottish Arts Council) Start Up Award 2010

 

Benno Schotz Prize, The RSA 2010 

 

The Flora Wood Prize, Visual Arts Scotland 2011

 

Bursary to attend Collect 2011, CraftScotland

 

Shortlisted for the Wesley-Barrell UK Craft Awards 2011

 

Featured in

 

 

Art Review, September 2002

 

Ceramics Review, Nov/Dec 2002 and 2004

 

Applied Arts Scotland Bulletin, September 2003

 

Neue Keramik Mar/April 2004

 

Muncher Merker March 2004

 

Homes and Interiors Scotland April 2004

 

Cabinet Maker, September 2010

 

Casa Inter (China) November 2010

 

Ceramic Review Jan/Feb 2011

 

Elle Decoration South Africa Feb 2011

 

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