MARGARET O'RORKE (b. 1938)


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Margaret O’Rorke lives and works in Oxford. First training as a painter at the Chelsea School of Art she then took up pottery at Camberwell. Her fulltime career started later in life, working with translucent porcelain. In 1992 she spent three formative months working in Ryoji Koie’s studio in Japan. Since then she has exhibited widely and participated in numerous residencies, including one at the International Ceramic Research Centre in Denmark in 2007 and two in Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in China in 2007 and 2008.


Margaret O'Rorke frequently works to commission and with each piece, incorporating the lighting technology is an integral part of the creative process. Installations, including chandeliers, wall pieces and fountains, all involve complex engineering, both electrical and mechanical.


Above: Margaret O'Rorke with her 'Circles of Wings' light sculpture, 2001



Exhibitions at Galerie Besson


Twenty Years - Twenty Pots Sep - Oct 2008
Classic and Contemporary Ceramics Feb - Mar 2007
Classic and Contemporary Ceramics Jan - Feb 2006
Contemporary Potters Feb - Mar 2004
Fernando Casasempere and Margaret O'Rorke Nov - Dec 2001
Commemorative Mugs for the Millennium Dec 1999 - Jan 2000
Margaret O'Rorke: Light Sculptures Mar 1995

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