A love of making - and of maps - has taken ceramic artist Loraine Rutt on an unusual but very successful creative journey. Loraine began her career as a cartographer at London's Birkbeck College https://www.bbk.ac.uk/ but when digitalisation of maps meant that she would be using a computer rather than the more physical approach of a pencil and tracing paper, she decided to pursue her earlier dream of going to art college.
A degree in ceramics from London's Central School for Art and Design (later Central St Martins https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins) began her creative career which now sees her specialising in ceramic maps and globes with her own art-lead practice and her pocket globes which she produces limited editions of via her Little Globe co.
In our chat Loraine shares her journey from her Kent and London childhood, through her cartography career and joy at finally attending art college and getting to 'play with clay.'
Her work mapping our world in ceramic form has recently won Loraine recognition from the Royal Geographical Society where she is now a Fellow. You can read about her recent exhibition here:
The Royal Geographical Society
In our chat Loraine also shares her chat about her connection with a real life space man: Apollo 15 Astronaut Col Al Worden - her work in homage and some recordings of her talking to Al Worden about the view of Earth from space can be heard here:
http://www.lorainerutt.com/portal
Loraine also recently took part in an exhibition in Venice with the prestigious Homo Faber organisation - you can see the catalogue here:
https://2024.homofaber.com/ecatalogue
For all Loraine's other work please visit her website:
