Ray Auker
Member of Anglian Potters & Norfolk Contemporary Craft Society
Areas of specialist interest:
- Thrown & altered ceramics
- Extruded sculptural forms
Profile:
Former Lecturer in Ceramics at Greenwich Community College.
Retired in 2008 and set up own teaching and production workshop until 2012, currently producing “one off” pieces that reflect Ray’s broad interest in the processes and possibilities of ceramic materials.
Ray mainly works at stoneware temperatures, but also white earthenware.
Skills:
Throwing, teaching, demonstrating and making, a favourite form being the teapot for the challenges involved.
Other work includes thrown and altered “stone” forms with lettered quotations or sayings.
Other skills include:
- Handbuilding
- Extruding
- Modelling
- Firing
- Glazing
South Norfolk, Norwich