Acknowledgements

Ruthin Craft Centre would like to thank Susan O’Byrne, Dr Elizabeth Moignard, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Creative Scotland; Lisa Rostron, Stephen Heaton and Rachel Shaw at Lawn. Gregory Parsons, Pete Goodridge and ArtWorks; Arts Council of Wales and all the team at RCC.

Susan O’Byrne especially thanks Creative Scotland, Bruno Gallagher, Madeleine O’Byrne and everyone at Glasgow Ceramics Studio and Ruthin Craft Centre.

RCC exhibition and education staff: Philip Hughes, Jane Gerrard, Sioned Phillips, Joe Jubb and Einir Wyn Jones Photography: Bruno Gallagher Design: Lawn Creative, Liverpool Print: Team Impression, Leeds Translation: Nia Roberts

Published by: Ruthin Craft Centre Text © The Authors 2015 ISBN 978-1-905865-73-4

Ruthin Craft Centre, The Centre for the Applied Arts Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 1BB Tel: +44 (0)1824 704774 www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk

Ruthin Craft Centre is revenue funded by the Arts Council of Wales and is part of Denbighshire County Council.

This publication is also available in Welsh.

This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without written permission from the publishers. Each object is produced from layers of printed and patterned pieces of porcelain paper clay, that are applied to form a skin over a wire framework and then fired in the kiln.

cover: Deer (detail), 2015. 880x730x280mm page 3: Red-headed Finch, 2015. 70x130x50mm back cover: African Finches, 2015. largest: 70x130x50mm