David Garratt's Sculpture Accepted for Ceramic Biennial in Korea
VCCA Resident Artist
David Garratt's fired clay, life-sized sculpture: Dodges, Pitfalls and Triumphs
has been accepted for the 2015 Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennial in
Incheon, Korea.
The selection process is
extremely competitive. Of the 2,700 entries from 74 countries, only 108 were
selected for the exhibition. Each entry was submitted to a rigorous double
review process conducted by a panel of six international ceramics experts.
This is the second time David has been accepted to exhibit in this Biennial.
Working without
preliminary drawings, David hand sculpts his heads relying on his own
observations to capture “fleeting moments” from life. The works have a
remarkable immediacy; David conveys expression and raw emotion with veracity
and deftness.
Primarily a self-taught
artist, David has exhibited his work widely including solo exhibitions at The
Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and others. He
was a semi-finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait competition, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. He has been awarded a Pennsylvania Partners in
the Arts grant, an HK Mellon/Pittsburgh Foundation grant (both 2001) and has
twice been a finalist for the prestigious Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant
(2008, 2010). The Cultural Magistrate of Salzburg, Austria, awarded Garratt a
residency at Kunstlerhaus in 2007.
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