‘TonRaum’ - An Exhibition & Collaborative Project between Composer/Sound Designer Barry Edwards & Ceramicist Claudia Lis at Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Denbighshire.

Dates: Saturday, September 26, 2026 - Sunday, January 10, 2027

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Claudia Lis
TonRaum
Gallery 2
26 September 2026 – 10 January 2027

A collaborative project between ceramicist Claudia Lis and composer/sound designer Barry Edwards.

“With my project ‘TonRaum’ (German for ‘Clay/Sound Space’) I set out to create a body of exhibition work in form of still-life arrangements, consisting of wheel-thrown vessels embedded into a soundscape of complementary musical compositions based entirely on recordings of sounds intrinsic to my ceramic making process.

Throughout the project, I have been working together with composer and sound designer Barry Edwards in jointly recording all sounds of my work in the studio environment – from the fierce roaring of my gas-fired kiln to the almost imperceptible sliding of hands over wet clay – thereby bringing the audible traces of my creative practice to the forefront as catalyst for me to make subtle new connections with my familiar materials, tools and processes.

Barry’s compositional work, which gradually evolved parallel to my ceramics in an interlocking, cross-genre process of mutual observation and inspiration, adds a new sonic dimension to my tranquil scenes of inter-related shapes, telling in a subliminal way the audible story of their making.”

Claudia trained as studio potter in 90s Germany before moving to the U.K. in the context of the EU-funded ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’ scheme. She worked for the following 7 years as personal assistant to Rupert Spira.

Since the launch of her studio in 2004 her work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions in the U.K., Europe, U.S.A. and Japan. Claudia is a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association (CPA) and a selected member of the CAA. She received the Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award in 2012/13. Her work is included in the late Tony Birks Ceramics Collection held in trust for the Nation by the Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts in Norwich. An accompanying 2021 publication Encounters with Ceramic – The Writings of Tony Birks is on display as part of this exhibition at Ruthin Craft Centre.

“Lis is an example of an artist whose ceramics can be put to use, but can also stand alone as fine objects. She avoids repeat ware by making sure that there is a variation in the families of forms. She likes to see them displayed in groups, which invites comparison with Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, but such is the intensity of the creative effort that there is no mistaking her work for that of anyone else.” - Tony Birks

Curated by Gregory Parsons

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