Collection: April Young

Born in Cumbria in 1972, April Young spent most of her childhood moving around the country and the globe, from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Cape Town, South Africa. Following a foundation year at Derby School of Art, she became a full time sculptor at Glasgow Ceramic Studio, and has since set up her own studio in WASPS, Glasgow amongst around 180 artists practicing different disciplines. Her work is held in private collections worldwide and she has most recently returned from working in New Zealand and Australia.

The majority of her work is made in stoneware clay, often crank (tough 'brick' clay). The pieces go through two or often three firing processes. They are totally made by hand, either by modelling 'from scratch' or using a plaster shaper (horse shaped of course!) which she has made to press the coils out into to join them into full forms.