Christie Brown

Christie Brown is a British ceramic sculptor whose clay figures, often part human and part animal, draw on archaeology, museum collections, dolls and puppets. Born in Yorkshire, she studied at Manchester University and trained in studio pottery at Harrow School of Art, setting up her studio in north London in 1982. She taught ceramics at the University of Westminster from 1993, became a professor in 2001 and is now Emeritus Professor of Ceramics. Her show DreamWork at the Freud Museum grew from her research, and her work is held by the V&A.