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Jennifer

Alford

Disciplines: Ceramics

www.jenniferalford.co.uk

Jennifer Alford is an award-winning Irish ceramicist and Homo Faber rising star. Her creative path began not with clay, but with music. Raised in Dublin, she studied violin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music before completing her degree at University College Dublin. For years, music provided her principal form of expression, teaching her discipline and the balance between structure and improvisation. This sensibility underpins her relationship with clay, a material that replaced music and became her creative voice. Recognising the value of a strong formal background as a bedrock for improvisation, she trained at the Craft Council of Ireland’s renowned Ceramics Skills and Design Course in Thomastown, a programme known for its rigorous grounding in production pottery. There she gained the technical expertise that allows her to experiment freely at the wheel. Jennifer lives and works from an old mill in the heart of the Scottish countryside.

Previous Experience

2025 The Thread that Pulls, RSA (Edinburgh) One from the cutting room floor, Custom Lane (Edinburgh) ASSEMBLAGE, Dalkeith Palace (Scotland) Abstract aesthetic, Gallery57 (England) Here comes Summer, Tatha Gallery (Newport-on-Tay, Scotland) Holding Conversations, V&A (Dundee) Inches Carr Showcase exhibition, Dundas Street Gallery (Edinburgh) Landing on Light, Custom Lane (Edinburgh) The Land, The Dick Institute (Kilmarnock) 2024 21st Century Irish Craft, National Museum of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland) Henderson Bursary Award Solo exhibition, Pittenweem Arts Festival (Scotland) 126th Annual Exhibition, Society of Scottish Artists, RSA (Edinburgh) Meffan Winter Show, Meffan Museum & Gallery (Forfar, Scotland) Winter Show, Number Four Gallery (Berwickshire, Scotland) Centenary Exhibition Visual Arts Scotland, RSA (Edinburgh) 2023 All the Joy, Tatha Gallery (Newport-on-Tay, Scotland) Making History, Brechin Townhouse 2021 InForm, National Museum of Ireland (Dublin) Table Talk, Blue Egg Gallery (Wexford) 2020 Hand to Hand, National Craft and Design Gallery (Kilkenny) 2019 Clay/Works Ceramics Ireland

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