ASSIGNMENT NO:- 3
Who is tip toland (OB3)
Who is She?

Tip Toland


Tip Toland is a ceramic artist whose work is subtly autobiographical: within a frozen moment, teeming with humanity, exists a vessel for her thoughts and feelings. She earned her BFA in Ceramics at the University of Colorado and later received an MFA in Ceramics from Montana State University. Her previous accolades include a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist-in-Residences in Wyoming, Oregon, Montana, and Washington, an Artist Trust GAP grant, and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant among others. She is a full-time in her studio ..

Which School did she attend?

EDUCATION 

1975
 B.F.A., Ceramics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
 CO

1981
M.F.A., Ceramics, Montana State University, 
Bozeman, MT

In the University of Colorado she started as a fine arts major in 1970, started ceramics just for kicks.in graduate school she entered with a terracotta plate with underglazed painting. then was asked to do some dimensional work in clay. She studied human Gage Academy.

BACKGROUND

Tip was born in an American family having 2 sisters and a younger brother, she never got the attention she wanted, her mom and dad knew at a very early age that she is very talented and put her up with pastel classes.
At the age of 14 her mother sent her to the boarding school.She knew her mother don't want her.
Tip has a very different ideas and she thinks and act very differently toward things people call her psycho.

MATERIALS 


terracotta clay 
stoneware clay
chalk pastels
synthetic hair 
porcelain
 paint 
stains 
gold leaf

ARTIST’S STATEMENT – TIP TOLAND
“My work is an attempt to give voice to inner psychological and/or spiritual states of
being. What is of primary importance to me is that the figures contain particular aspects
of humanity which they can mirror back to the viewer. It’s the vulnerability of Humanity I
am after. That is one reason for choosing very old or very young subjects. They both
can portray innocence as well as extreme complexity.

SIZE

Tip Toland is a figurative sculptor and I highly admire the skill within her work. She creates extremely life-like human sculptures using stoneware, paint, pastels and synthetic fibres. The photography of them are so that it is hard to judge the scale, though they seem to be around 1/3rd human size based on the measurements. The use of synthetic fibre gives the sculpture an uncanny presence. From the photographs, I originally thought these were people, not sculptures.