Biography
Ciara Isabel Neufeldt is an artist, craftsperson and educator. She graduated with a BFA from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2018, and in 2023, graduated from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design with an MA Ceramics.
Her practice centres on bringing a moment of joy and celebration to everyday life, through ceramic objects and installations. Her work is created with the intention of creating inclusion and accessibility to art in our daily lives. She does so through a range of working practices and pedagogies, including functional public installations and facilitating community out-reach projects.
Ciara has extensive ceramic experience, through her own practice and also through her work as a fabricator and assistant to other artists.
She has received numerous awards for her projects, notably including the Inches Carr Scottish Craft Award in 2019 and Konstnärsnämden’s Assistentstipendium in 2023. She has been chosen for Local Heroes Design ‘Process’ Programme 2023, and previously was selected for Craft Scotland’s ‘Compass’ Programme cohort in 2019.
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Selected Exhibitions
Formations in Clay Furniture, County Hall Pottery, London
Process, Dundee Design Festival, Dundee
Bookends, Dundee Design Festival, Dundee
Affordable Art Fair, Galleri Duerr, Stockholm
2024
FRESH BREW, Kulturhuset Stadseatern, Stockholm
Spring Exhibition, Konstfack, Stockholm
Konstsalong, Husby, Stockholm
Glasgow Ceramics Studio at 25, Studio Pavillion, Glasgow
2023
Craft Brew, Konstfack, Stockholm
2022
The Design Weans, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
The Winter Show, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2019
The Degree Show, Duncan of Jordanstones College of Art, Dundee
2018
Duality, Bradshaw Space, Dundee
Where Our Minds Are Now, Tinroof Gallery, Dundee
2016
Konstnärsnämnden Assistentstipendium
Fabrikör J. L. Eklunds Hantverksstiftelse
Konstfack Stipendium
Konstack Studentkår Scholarship
Vasakronans Konststipendium (shortlisted)
Awards
Creative Scotland Open Funding
2024
2023
Gustaf & Ida Unmans Stiftelse
2022
Estrid-Ericsons Stiftelse
2021
Inches Carr Scottish Craft Award
2019
Potclays Student Award
2018
Residencies + Programmes
Local Heroes Design PROCESS Programme
Villa Lena Artist Residency
2024
2023
Craft Scotland COMPASS Next Generation Programme
2019