Kelly Thiel is an amazing ceramic and bronze artist from North Carolina. We have carried her work for over a year now and just recently received some exciting new pieces.
Born in
Georgia, Kelly lived on a small farm for the first few years of her life. With
nothing much to do, she learned how to entertain herself by making mud pies in
the dirt. Her mother taught her about
plants and gardening and art, while her father taught her and her brother how
to ride a horse. At the age of 11, she moved to Virginia Beach and stayed in Virginia until the age of 24. Kelly went to Viriginia
Tech and got a degree in Interior Design. She continued in that field until she
moved to Charleston, SC in 1998.
Still
interested in design, but tired of the corporate world, she decided to take a
break from working and explore other options. Kelly and her mother enrolled in
an introductory pottery course at the Gibbes Museum and that was when Kelly
realized that clay was the perfect medium for her.
After
spending the first ten years focusing on wheel-thrown and slab-built pottery,
and only making sculpture on the side, Kelly changed her focus to only work on
figurative sculpture. After the death of
her mother, she felt a huge creative shift in her clay, and thus began her commitment to her sculpture.
2012 has
already been a great year for Kelly - she exhibited at the American Craft
Council show in Atlanta in March with her clay works, and is exhibiting a
bronze sculpture at The Bascom in Highlands, NC with a group show that will run
from August 18 - October 14, 2012. Here are some images of new works by Kelly now our shop & gallery.
"Journal Birds", $75.
"Reclining FLY", $185.
"Secrets", $800.
"Family", $350.
Close-up of "Wall Birdies", $60.
Selected Shows and Exhibitions:
"Couples",
The Bascom, Highlands, NC
August-October
2012
www.thebascom.org
American
Craft Council Retail Show, Atlanta, GA
March 2012
www.craftcouncil.org
"House
& Home" Group Invitational
Mudfire,
Decatur, GA
March-April,
2012
Jersey Shore
Clay National
m.t. burton
gallery
June-July,
2011
American
Craft Council Retail Show, Atlanta, GA
March, 2011
www.craftcouncil.org
"Word
Processing", Group Invitational for the Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, NC
January-March,
2011
www.cabarrusartscouncil.org
American
Craft Council Retail Show, Atlanta, GA
March, 2010
www.craftcouncil.org
American
Craft Council Retail Show, Charlotte, NC
October -
November, 2008
www.craftcouncil.orgrd
Annual National Juried Exhibition, Group Exhibition at the Katharine Butler
Gallery, Sarasota, FL
April - May
2008
www.kbutlergallery.com
National
Ceramics Juried Exhibition & Symposium, Juried Group Exhibition at the
Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas. October - November, 2007
www.lawrenceartscenter.com
"Naked
Clay" Juried Group Exhibition at the Artisan Gallery of the Woman Made
Gallery. 685 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Il 60622
September -
November, 2007
www.womanmade.org
Juried
Artist, Seawall Art Festival, August 2007
Juried
Artist, Piccolo Spoleto Fine Craft Show, May, 2007Juried Artist, Tybee Island
Art Festival, October, 2006
Juried
Artist, Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, May - June, 2006
Juried
Artist, South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, May 2006
Juried
Artist, Telfair Art Fair, November 2005
Juried
Artist, Atalaya Art Festival, September 2005
Exhibting
Artist, Piccolo Spoleto Craft Show, May 2005
Juried
Artist, South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, May 2005
Juried
Artist, South Carolina State Fair Fine Art Exhibit, October 2004Juried Artist,
Piccolo Spoleto Craft Show, May 28-30, 2004
Juried
Artist, South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, May 2004
Exhibiting
Artist, South Wind Gallery, Festival of Music and Art,
Pawley's
Island, September 2003
Publications:
Art Buzz,
Collection 2011
The Humours
of Folly, by Braden/Davis, 2009
Art Buzz,
2008 Collection
Skirt
Magazine, Charleston, SC 2006wards & Recognition:
SC State
Museum Traveling Exhibition Program, June 2009-May 2010
Seawall Art
Festival, Fourth Place Award, August 2007
Piccolo
Spoleto Fine Craft Show, Honorable Mention, May 2007
Tybee Island
Festival of the Arts, Honorable Mention, October 2006
SC Palmetto
Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, Honorable Mention, May 2006
SC Palmetto
Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, Honorable Mention, May 2005
SC State
Museum Traveling Exhibtion Program, June 2005-May 2006
Piccolo
Spoleto Craft Show, Merit Award, May 2004
SC State
Museum Traveling Exhibition Program, June 2004-May 2005
Residencies:
South
Carolina State Park Artist in Residency, April 2007
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