| urpu sellar Urpu was born in Finland in the 50s and studied textile design at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart. Urpu and her husband moved to Galloway in 1980. Urpu began pottery in 1992. "I started by making coiled and slab-built bowls,
then fish to hang on the wall. Combining the ceramic fish with wood, metal,
glass, acrylic and anything else suitable, my work has since developed
into three dimensional sculptural forms. I find English
a rich source of ideas for my current work, especially puns and idioms,
where a word may have more than one spelling and meaning but only one
pronunciation. I love listening to people talking; sometimes just a slip of the tongue or a spoonerism gives me an idea." |