Gwen Heeney
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Gwen Heeney (1952–2016) was a British ceramist, sculptor and academic, known particularly for sculptures created from bricks. Her commissioned sculptures stand in locations in Britain.
Heeney studied ceramics at the School of Art and Design at Bristol Polytechnic from 1971 to 1974. From 1977 to 1986 she had a studio producing domestic pottery, in Cardiff and in mid-Wales. She studied at the Royal College of Art from 1987 to 1989 under Eduardo Paolozzi, gaining an MA, and during 1988 worked in Sweden with Ulla Viotti; after this time she produced large scale works, using architectural brick.[1][2]
From 1989 she was a research fellow in architectural ceramics at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, where she lectured until 1997. From 1998 she was a lecturer in the ceramics department of the University of Wolverhampton. She was a founder member of the World Association of Brick Artists, and a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. She died of cancer in 2016.[1][2]
