Irish Ceramic Awards’ Winner - Mandy Parslow

Mandy Parslow is the winner of the Irish Ceramic Awards 2013 On completing an honours degree in three-dimensional design, Ceramics at Cardiff School of Art and Design, Mandy returned to Wexford -her home county - to establish her studio pottery in 1994. She moved to her current studio and showroom, a renovated gate-lodge in rural County Tipperary, in 1999. Here Mandy specializes in wood-fired salt-glazed stoneware, building her current kiln in 2006. Her award winning work is represented in public and private collections in Ireland, the UK and Europe including the Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin, the Ulster Museum, Belfast and the Consulate General of Ireland, Shanghai, China. She exhibits on a regular basis both in Ireland and abroad. Past exhibitions include SOFA, Chicago in 2008, Collect, Saatchi Galleries, London and the Irish Pavilion, World Expo, Shanghai in 2010, Irish Craft Portfolio in 2010 and 2011 and Ceramic Art London, RCA in 2012 and 2013. In Sept