GABRIELE KOCH
Has graduated in English, History and Political Science at Heidelberg University. Studies and travelling in Spain have been fundamental in inspiring her to want to work with clay. In 1981 she finishes her studies at the Goldsmith College of Art & Design graduating in Ceramics. Since then her work has been exhibited in England and abroad and is housed in many private and public collections including museums in Frankfurt, Zurich, and the Victoria & Albert.
The art critic Lionel Philips has written: " Gabriele Kochâs art is essentially one of discrimination. We may find in it suggestions of native American, near Eastern or African ceramic art, since no artist can abandon entirely the legacy of her predecessors, but Kochâs art is wholly contemporary in idea and execution. It is intrinsically about line, volume and colour expressed three-dimensionally.