NICKY

A well established professional now, Nicky Coady can still recall vividly her first encounters with clay in the early l970's while raising her two children. Away from the confines of an office, she took the opportunity to explore her creativity and artistic interests and by chance, the medium was clay. With memories of her own childhood spent by the hillsides and deepwater natural harbour of Dartmouth, Devon and the remarkable landscape of Zambia, it is hardly surprising that her passion for texture and the organic form was to emerge in early work and to recur throughout her career... Nicky's decision to pursue ceramics professionally was cemented when she was awarded the Ceramic Prize in the l976 Lane Cove Art Show by LLoyd Rees. "I had been working on large hand built multi spouted forms and having such a well respected Artist award me the prize and describe my work as "innovative" provided the impetus to launch my professional career"... Emerging from this process are Nicky's..

Also known as: Nicky Coady