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address
80 Ladysmith Road
Heavitree, Exeter
Devon, EX1 2PP
Tel: 01392 412298
Mobile: 07808167064
e-mail: tavs@oktavius.co.uk
Web site: www.oktavius.co.uk
personal details
Nationality : Danish
languages
Danish : Fluent (spoken, written)
English : Fluent (spoken, written)
German : Fair (spoken, written)
extensive experience in
Ceramic and glass design
Computer design and modelling
Rapid prototyping, CNC milling and digitizing
Plaster model making, all aspects
Plaster mould making, including block/case for slip casting and jigger/jolly
production
Rampress die making
Industrial ceramic production techniques
Production throwing and most aspects of craft pottery
Silk-screen printing and transfer making
Kiln building and firing (gas, electric, wood, raku and salt)
Glaze and clay technology
Art and design history
Bronze casting
qualifications
BA
First class Honours degree in 3D Ceramic Design
Pottery Qualified Journeyman (bronze
medal awarded for exam)
Class 10 Exam 6 high passes.
teaching and guest lecturing
Currently
: Tutor, Ceramic and Glass, Royal College of Art, London
One-to-one tuition of leading ceramists/artists.
Guest lecturing at:
Royal College of Art, University Wales Institute Cardiff, Plymouth College of Art and Design. Central St.
Martin, Loughborough University, University of Plymouth (3D Design). Bath Spa University, Falmouth College of Art, Danish Design School
- Copenhagen, Glas og Keramik Skolen - Bornholm.
awards
Shot listed for the Bombay Sapphire Glass Design Award 2008
Autonomatic Digital Research Competition
2005
Winner of the Ceramic and glass category of the 2000 Peugeot Design Award
Josiah Wedgwood Tableware Award, New Designers, London 1996
papers, talks and presentations
3D Technologies in the Arts and Crafts, UWE, June 2008
Materials Knowledge Transfer Network AGM, Westminster, London April 2008
London Design festival opening, Royal Festival Hall September 2008
'Conducting Form', paper presented at 'Design Enquiries' research conference, Stockholm, Sweden May 2007
Perimeters, Borders, Boundaries Symposium September 2006
COLLECTion-
The V&A, London, February 2006
Atoms
to Art - Manchester Art Gallery September 2005
'Binary Tools': Paper presented at 'In
the Making' - first nordic design research Conference, Copenhagen,
Denmark May 2005.
North Jutland Potters and Glass makers, Lønstrup, Denmark October
2004.
ACAB (Arts & Crafts Association Bornholm) Denmark May 2004.
Anglo Scandinavian Society, Taunton, UK October 2003.
SWADE (South West Art and Design) Conference, Dartington Hall, UK September
2003
Guest
artist at Aberystwith International Ceramic Festival, Wales July 2003
Devon Guild of Craftsmen AGM, UK May 2003
exhibitions
Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh, UK, June 2008
Bombay Sapphire, Superstudio Piu, Milan, April 2008
Firing Thoughts, Manchester, January 2007
Interface, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracy, UK, October 2006
Perimeters, Borders, Boundaries, Lancaster, September 2006
Shepparton
Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, April 2006
Dartington Cider Press Centre,
March 2006
Ceramic Art 2005, RCA, London, May 2005
Dartington Cider Press Centre, Aug 2004
'Connectivity Project' Challenging Crafts, Aberdeen 2004
Dartington Cider Press Centre Aug 2003
Crafts in the Twenty First Century Conference, Edinburgh Dec 2002
‘Industry of One’ Craft Council, Angel, London 2001
‘Home Sweet Home’, Traveling British Council exhibition 2001
‘Peugeot Design Award 2000’, The Oxo Tower, London 2000
‘100 % Design’, Earls Court, London 1999
‘One year on’ at ‘New Designers’ Islington, London
1997
‘Design Reality 96’ The Hothouse, Stoke-on Trent 1996
‘New Designers’ The Business Design Centre, Islington, London
1996
‘Ceramic Contemporaries 2’ The V&A Museum, London 1996
‘Clay’ The crypt of St. Martin-In-the-Field Church, London 1995
BA Ceramic Degree Show, Cardiff Institute of Higher Education 1995
‘The Shape of Things to come’, Chepstow 1995
employment history
Current
: Tutor, Ceramic and Glass, Royal College of Art, London
Current : Research Fellow, University
College Falmouth
Current : Freelance ceramic designer and modeller (since July
1995)
Feb 03 - Feb 05 : Research assistant, University of Plymouth.
June 94 - Oct 94 : Production thrower, Lars Nygaard Keramik, Løkken,
Denmark
June 93 - Oct 93 : Production thrower, Lars Nygaard Keramik, Løkken,
Denmark
Jan 91 - July 92 : Senior production thrower, Dartington Pottery, UK
Jan 88 - Oct 90 : Manager of pottery workshop, Lief Vange Keramik,
Ingstrup, Denmark
education
1996 Hothouse
‘Design Reality 96’ CAD/CAM course
Work placement at Wedgwood PLC design and modelling department (March
1994)
1992 - 1995: Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, (BA Honours)
1986 - 1990: Pottery Apprenticeship, Lief Vange Keramik, Denmark
1985 - 1986: Horne Ungdomsskole, Denmark
1976 - 1985: Saltum Central Skole, Denmark
computer skills
hardware
/ os
Apple Macintosh, Silicon Graphic (Unix), PC (Windows
3.1- 98, XP)
software
AutoCad, Mayka, DeskArtes, Solidworks, Stratasys Insight, Rhino 3D, Form
Z , SketchUP, SoftImage XSI, Macromedia Flash , Strata 3D, Dreamweawer,
Adobe Illustrator , Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXpress, Adobe InDesign, Filemaker
Pro, Microsoft Office.
general interests
A list of many including: contemporary
design and architecture, photography, allotment gardening, family and
diy, surfing, foil and sabre fencing
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