This April, we are delighted to welcome Nancy Fuller for her first solo exhibition with The Scottish Gallery. Nancy Fuller graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, with a degree in Fine Art Printmaking before obtaining a MA in the History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. A Mandarin scholarship took her back to Taiwan, her country of birth, and it was there that she discovered the art of wood-firing. To design and build her own wood-kiln in Aberdeenshire, she undertook a yearlong training with anagama master Suzuki Shigeji in Shigaraki, Japan.
The presence of mind and body required for woodfiring has brought me closer to nature and in turn myself. Over time, the results produced from my anagama kiln in Aberdeenshire have increasingly felt like a collaboration with the natural world and a celebration of what it is to be human. – Nancy Fuller
Read more about Fuller’s practice in our Studio Insights blog here.