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Bex

Guthrie

Bex completed art foundation before studying textiles and film in London in the nineties. Following time spent writing exhibition reviews and living in Berlin and Denmark she trained as a psychotherapist and worked as photographer and illustrator. Returning to art education via ceramics in 2015 she went on to complete various experimental ceramics courses at City Lit London between in 2022. Since then Bex has has taken part in Artists Residencies and regular group shows in the UK and Internationally and has developed a ceramic practise which integrates her psychotherapeutic and artistic interests; focussing on an exploration of maternal/material heritage in Scotland and the use of ‘wild’ or foraged clay to create imagine artefacts embodying the genius loci of specific coastal geographies.

Disciplines: Sculpture

Location: London

Materials: Assemblage, Objects

www.bexguthrie.co.uk

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Bex completed art foundation before studying textiles and film in London in the nineties. Following time spent writing exhibition reviews and living in Berlin and Denmark she trained as a psychotherapist and worked as photographer and illustrator. Returning to art education via ceramics in 2015 she went on to complete various experimental ceramics courses at City Lit London between in 2022. Since then Bex has has taken part in Artists Residencies and regular group shows in the UK and Internationally and has developed a ceramic practise which integrates her psychotherapeutic and artistic interests; focussing on an exploration of maternal/material heritage in Scotland and the use of ‘wild’ or foraged clay to create imagine artefacts embodying the genius loci of specific coastal geographies.

Previous Experience

Artists Residency Linkhouse, Birsay Pier Arts Centre, Orkney April 2023 A Mixture o’ Mercies Objects found and fabricated in/from Birsay, Orkney Tabletop Museum Art Workers Guild, London September 2023 Birsay Cup and Dish (Stoneware and Orkney Clay) ‘Thrown Contemporary’ Online Ceramic Exhibition, Group Exhibition November 2023 Boreas Domas, Mare Amicus -A pair of Orkney clay vessels Featured in “Days Between Weathers” Artists Book by Scott Mason ISBN-10: 0992983851 February 2024 Birsay Vessels (Porcelain and Orkney Clay) Atelier by The Sea Gallery, Brighton. Summer Open August 2024 Birsay Quaichs I and II and Relational Vessels I and II (Stoneware and Orkney Clay) Townhouse Gallery, London Group show, (Annual Open) July 2024 Hurkur Liddded Vessel (Porcelain and Eyemouth Clay) ‘What Holds’ Group Exhibition Vessels and Sticks Ceramics Gallery, Toronto (reviewed in ‘Ceramics Now’ Magazine, Issue 14 October 2025)

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