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