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Stephanie Roberts Art
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Falling in love with clay as a child, I completed my Ceramics Degree in Cardiff in 1994, specialising in figurative sculpture.
I stumbled into mosaics a year later, where I worked for a community mosaic company Pioneers, based in Cardiff, and learnt the basics of mosaic art and construction. With my interest sparked, I co founded, Ozaic, where I first began making commissioned artworks and began exploring three dimensional mosaics. Becoming a freelance Mosaic Artist in 1998, creating mosaics for companies, private clients and schools internationally and locally.
It wasn't until 2000 that I really discovered the potential in industrial materials and began to manipulate lead in my work. This finally, allowed me the freedom to connect my mosaic work with my drawings, my style was born. ‘Contoured mosaic’ features in most of my artworks today.
In 2003, I began working on site specific public art and regeneration projects. These larger community commissions enabled me to develop my arts practice by providing opportunities to deepen thematic studies and further explore visual language through community engagement. Communicating narratives to audiences about social stories, heritage and culture, funded through Council, EU, Heritage and Arts Council of Wales funds.
I have worked in collaboration wth many multi disciplinary artists to achieve large sculptural installations, and utilise the skills of other artisan and fabricators to achieve a vision. Working for Interior Designers, Animation companies alongside Architects, Black Smiths, Carpenters, Fabricators and groundwork's Teams to deliver installations.
I was invited to travel to Chile for the 1st International Mosaic Intervention, in 2014, to work alongside 80 international mosaic artists to create a 60m public mosaic. Here I had the Gprivilegeof discovered a mosaic community, with which I still am connected. I travelled to India in 2017, to take part in the Global Art Festival, in Gujarat, India. Meeting again with many international mosaic artists to create art inspired by location.
I continue to work with my community to create social and environmental community projects. Where I work alongside and in association with art centres, community organisations and schools directing, creating and facilitating projects, that connect and engage people with the experience of making art and mosaic.
