Ann Marais

Ceramicist

Multi-award winning ceramic artist Ann has been working with clay since 1970 and professionally since 1977. She is also a multi-media sculptor, curator, writer and critic for ceramic publications, speaker, selector, awards judge, workshop presenter, external moderator, occasional teacher, and occasional lecturer. She graduated from Rhodes University with a BFA degree (cum laude) in 1991, with majors in Sculpture and Theory of Art and is a Fellow of Ceramics Southern Africa: artworks in SA museums and abroad.

She has participated in over 250 exhibitions locally and overseas, including in France, Italy, New Zealand and Hong Kong, and completed a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, in 2005. Her work forms part of museum collections in South Africa and in Europe.