	Simon CARROLL Dates: 1964-2009 He was awarded a first class honours degree in Ceramics at the University of West of England, Bristol, where he studied under Mo Jupp and Walter Keeler. Afterwards he set up a workshop in Hereford where he worked with students at the Royal National College for the Blind. He was inspired by disciplined but expressive work of Jackson Pollock and Peter Voulkos as well as Picasso's freely modelled small figures. He was particularily interested in the the bold simplicity of early slipware which he emulated, throwing the original form and manipulating it into dramatic shapes. To decorate his jugs and other forms he used only three slips and a tin glaze, making marks by impressing, sgraffito and piercing. Carroll embraced the cracks and imperfections that appear as a result of firing as part of his art. As well as working in clay, Carroll made 'beach drawings', creating large images in sand with tools such as a rake when he moved to Padstow in Cornwall. Caroll famously had a pot thrown on his head by Martin Lungley at the International Ceramics Festival 2003. After a solo exhibition in Aberystwyth called Making Connections in 2004 a number of works were purchased for the collection with the help of a grant from the V&A Resource/Purchase Grant Fund. His last major ceramic exhibition was at the Tate, St. Ives, Cornwall in 2006. He concentrated on abstract drawing after he was diagnosed with liver cancer.

Simon CARROLL

Dates: 1964-2009

He was awarded a first class honours degree in Ceramics at the University of West of England, Bristol, where he studied under Mo Jupp and Walter Keeler. Afterwards he set up a workshop in Hereford where he worked with students at the Royal National College for the Blind. He was inspired by disciplined but expressive work of Jackson Pollock and Peter Voulkos as well as Picasso's freely modelled small figures. He was particularily interested in the the bold simplicity of early slipware which he emulated, throwing the original form and manipulating it into dramatic shapes. To decorate his jugs and other forms he used only three slips and a tin glaze, making marks by impressing, sgraffito and piercing. Carroll embraced the cracks and imperfections that appear as a result of firing as part of his art. As well as working in clay, Carroll made 'beach drawings', creating large images in sand with tools such as a rake when he moved to Padstow in Cornwall. Caroll famously had a pot thrown on his head by Martin Lungley at the International Ceramics Festival 2003. After a solo exhibition in Aberystwyth called Making Connections in 2004 a number of works were purchased for the collection with the help of a grant from the V&A Resource/Purchase Grant Fund. His last major ceramic exhibition was at the Tate, St. Ives, Cornwall in 2006. He concentrated on abstract drawing after he was diagnosed with liver cancer.