E-mail gwornell@image-ark.com
Mobile: +358 40 530 9246
DATE OF BIRTH: 20.04.52
NATIONALITY: Canadian - Resident in the UK from 1969-94 currently resident in Finland
EDUCATION:
Primary and Secondary Schools in Quebec and Ontario Canada.
The Cavendish School, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
Lowestoft School of Art, Foundation Course.
Staffordshire University School of Art and Design, Multi-disciplinary. B.A.Hons 1st.
Commendation.
FELLOWSHIPS:
F.S.D.C. Elected Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen of Great Britain
F.C.P.A. Elected Fellow of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain
MEMBERSHIPS:
Ars-Häme (Häme Regional Professional Artists Association)
Leuku.fi (Online Photo Agency)
MAIN AWARDS:
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1976 |
New Craftsman's Award, Crafts Council of Great Britain to establish a studio in Suffolk |
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1991 |
Winner of the Inax Design Prize for Europeans -Three months in Japan. |
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1994 |
The British Council. Financial assistance for Archipelago exhibition, Tammisaari Museum, Finland. |
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1995 |
Riihimaki Town Council. Financial assistance for Bearing 090 exhibition, Galeria Allinna. |
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1996 |
Riihimaki Town Council. Financial assistance for Children's Raku ceramics course. |
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1997 |
Riihimaki Town Council. Financial assistance for Summer ceramics courses. |
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1998 |
Hameen Taidetoimikunta. Financial assistance for completing gallery renovation. |
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1999 |
Travel award to Japan Opetusministeriö / Finnish Ministry of Education |
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2000 |
The Canadian Council for the Arts. Travel grant to study craft activities in Southern Tanzania. |
EDUCATIONAL BODIES:
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1986 - 1989 |
Member of the Advisory Body of the Lowestoft School of Art. |
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1988 |
Committee Member , Eastern Arts Board. |
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1993- 1995 |
Advisor to the Eastern Arts Board. |
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1993- 1995 |
Suffolk County Council Libraries and Heritage Visual Artists Working Group Committee. |
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1997 |
Taiko, Finland. Jury member for Ceramics Exhibition in Morley Gallery London, January 1998. |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk.
University of Idaho, USA.
Michael Peters Foundation, London.
Arthur Paul Collection, Chicago, USA. (Playboy International Logo Designer)
Museum Voor Sierkunst, Gent Belgium.
Instituto Statale d'Arte 2F.A.Grue" per la Ceramica, Castelli, Italy.
The late H.M.Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Sir Collin Anderson Trust, Greshams School, Norfolk.
Maison de Culture de La Louviere, Belgium.
City of Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery
PRINCIPAL EXHIBITIONS:
SOLO:
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1977 - 1995 |
The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts: ceramics |
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1980 |
Liberty of London, Regent Street. "One Off" Deptartment: ceramics |
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1981 |
Buro Ledeboer, The Haag, Holland. Colchester Castle Essex: ceramics |
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1984 |
The Potters Festival, The Old Slaughterhouse, Aldeburgh Suffolk: ceramics |
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1986 |
Anatol Orient, London : ceramics |
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1988 |
Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk: ceramics |
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1989 |
Pocknell & Co. Braintree, Essex: ceramics |
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1990 |
Leeds City Art Gallery: ceramics
Gallery L, Hamburg, Germany: ceramics
The Quest, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: ceramics |
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1991 |
Inax Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan: ceramics |
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1993 |
Peterborough Art Center: Photography exhibition.
Pentagram Design Group, London: drawings and paintings. |
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1994 |
Gallerie Amphora, Netherlands: ceramics |
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1995 |
Tammisaaren Museo, Tammisaari, Finland: ceramics, drawings, paintings |
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2005 |
Gallerie Oljemark, Helsinki. Giclée prints |
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30.05-23.06.2006 |
Galleria Bronda, Helsinki. |
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GROUP:
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1978 |
Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk. |
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1980 |
Falcon House Gallery, Boxford Suffolk. |
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1981 |
Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk. |
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1984 |
Rufford Craft Centre, Notts. British Raku. |
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1987 |
Courtyard Gallery, Cheltenham, Glos.
Craftsmen Potters Association, London. New Members Show.
Rufford Craft Centre, Notts. British Porcelain. |
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1988 |
Craftsmen Potters Association, London. Bottles and Bowls. |
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1989 |
Cecelia Coleman Gallery, London.
Craftsmen Potters Association, London. Potters 89
St. Edmundsbury Borough Council. Crafts and the Collection.
46th International Ceramics, Faenza, Italy |
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1990 |
Createurs Contemporains, Paris.
1st International, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
12th International Ceramics, Vallauris, France.
Looking East. 1990-91 Touring, Norwich, Koblenz, Ipswich. |
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1991 |
Gallerie 25, Helsinki, Finland. |
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1992 |
Pastel Society Open, Mall Galleries. London: pastel drawings
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London: ceramics |
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1993 |
Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries, London: ceramics |
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1994 |
Gallerie Desimpel, Kortemark, Belgium. British Ceramics.
Rufford Crafts Centre, Nottinghamshire: ceramics
Society of Designer Craftsmen: ceramics
Craftsmen Potters Association, London. Potters 94 |
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1995 |
Bearing 090°, La Louviere, Belgium
Bearing 090°, Allinna,Riihimäki, Finland
Inax, Tokyo, Japan. |
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1996 |
Bearing 090° Ipswich, England. |
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1998 |
International Ceramic Exhibition. Fiskars Finland. |
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1999 |
Itami Museum of Arts and Crafts, Japan. Finnish Craft Exhibition |
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2000 |
Craft Space Mokkumto, Seoul, Korea
Galerie L, Hamburg
Peers Feetham Gallery, London |
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2002 |
FinnDesign Now 02 Fiskars and Helsinki |
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2003-2005 |
Finnish Institute – Tartu Estonia – 2 year traveling exhibition of photography (Tartu, Suure-Jaani, Kõrveküla, Paide, Põlva, Tõrva, Elva, Ruusmäe, Tamsalu, Jäneda) |
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2004 |
White/Valkoinen – Fiskars summer exhibition - Digital Photo Wall piece |
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23.05 – 05.06.05 |
Kirkkopalvelut - Toleranssi-projekti – Oulu Photography exhibition |
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06.2005 |
Galerie Oljemark, Helsinki. Summer show - Giclée prints |
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06.2005 |
Galleria Bronda, Helsinki. Summer show – Giclée prints |
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03.-04.2006 |
Hämeenlinnan Taiteilijaseuran vuosinäyttely – Giclée prints |
PUBLICATIONS (Books):
Studio Porcelain – Peter Lane, Collins.
Studio Ceramics - Peter Lane, Collins.
Ceramic Form - Peter Lane, Collins.
Encyclopaedia of British Porcelain Manufacturers, Geoffrey Godden. p802.
British Studio Potters, Pat Carter, Scholar Press.
Sculptural Ceramics- Ian Gregory, Black Chilton. p104, 107, 35.
GCSE Art & Design: Sculpture and Ceramics, Hodder and Stoughton Educational.
The Tile – Making, Designing and Using: Kenneth Clarke MBE (2002)
Travel Photographer of the Year – Journey One (2005) 1 photograph
Magazine features, photos and short pieces in international publications since 1976
PUBLISHED ARTICLES relating to the Arts:
A Potters Day - Ceramic Review, Sept-Oct 1992
Inax and after - Artists Newsletter, Jan 1993
Japan - Ceramic Review Sept-Oct 1993
Gary Wornell - Ceramica, Spain, April 1996
TEACHING:
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1984 - 1989 |
Lowestoft School of Art, Suffolk. Ceramics |
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1985 - 1994 |
University of East Anglia. School of Education.
Course Tutor |
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1986 - 1989 |
Croydon School of Art and Design, London.
Part-time Lecturer in Ceramics. |
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1991 |
Guest Lecturer in Ceramics at The Swire School of Art and Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic.
Guest Lecturer at University of Art And Design, Helsinki. |
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1993 |
Guest Lecturer at St Lucas Academy of Arts. Belgium.
Guest Lecturer at Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk. |
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1995 |
University of Art and Design, Helsinki. M.A.Ceramics lecturer |
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1996 - 1999 |
Riihimäki Commercial College. Internet and Multimedia, Part-time.
Lahti Institute of Design, Jewellery Design Course Lecturer. |
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1999 - 2002 |
HAMK – Riihimäki. Web design, Digital Imaging |
CURRENT WORK:
Working as photographer, photographic artist, graphic designer, book designer since 2000.
Set up www.image-ark.com on-line picture library in 2002.
Weekly columnist for 3 Finnish newspapers since 2000 publishing more than 300 columns (Karjalaan Maa, Aamuposti, Kainuun Sanomat)
Lifestyle contributor to 6 Degrees, Finland’s english newspaper.
My journalistic photographic work is essentially about people and how they interact with their environment.
In 2003 came top 20 of all the participating photographers in the International Travel Photographer of the Year www.TPOTY.com competition in which more than 10 000 entries from 34 countries were submitted. In 2004 I came in the top 10 in the category Living Planet, one of my images has been selected for publication in Journey One - Travel Photographer of the Year book.
Recent works include digitally manipulated photographs for giclée printing. Subjects include walls in which the subject is removed from its original environment and elements expanded to suggest feelings of scale, colour and mood usually with subjects that are marked with age. Other works explore abstract themes derrived from combinations of photographic images where diverse subjects are combined to create painterly abstract landscapes and compositions.
Gary Wornell April 2006 
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