April Prendergast Ceramics
Biography
April Prendergast is a ceramics artist based in Dublin and Kildare. She studied her first year of Art and Design in Limerick School of Art and Design and is now completing her final year of a BA (Hons) Fine Art Ceramics degree in the National College of Art and Design. Her work currently focuses on the potentials of sensory experiences in ceramics. For this body of work, she focuses on the tactile sense. She specifically looks at evolving a sense of connection and understanding through touch using intimate objects that are made to be held and touched.
April has exhibited in Limerick School of Art and Design in 2017 and 2018, Limerick Institute of Technology Clonmel Campus in 2017 and the National College of Art and Design in 2019.
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Tactility
Exploring the Potentials of Sensory Experience in Ceramics
April's current body of work explores touch and its value in creating direct connections between people and the world around them. The work focuses on the tactile qualities of objects that enhance the senses rather than focusing solely on the visual perception of an object. It looks at how perceiving an object through touch leaves a more detailed and durable memory of that object.
You are encouraged to touch the art. It is an exploration of the tactile sense.
