ABOUT ME
“I think I have learned that beauty is on the edge of loss. That perfection is often broken and in decay. That witnessing the transience and fallibility of life is integral to our ability to comprehend and live with joy.”
Nic Webb, Broken Beauty Sarah Myerscough Gallery.
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Tracy Caldah is a designer maker living and working in the rural county of Herefordshire.
Tracy has just finished her Contemporary Design Craft BA Hons Degree at Hereford College of Arts where she has enjoyed finding her voice through art and has realised that by making and creating, her health and well-being has improved. She graduated in September 2024.
There is so much more to learn and Tracy is passionate about continuing her making practice by exhibiting her work locally and further afield.
“I am an emerging contemporary artist living and working in the rural County of Herefordshire, UK. I am an artist with a love of ceramics, Jesmonite, metal work and found materials.”
“My current work is about using overlooked and often looked down on materials to relate to the times that I, myself have felt overlooked and looked down on. I am combining these perceived ‘lowly’ materials with precious metals and strong design to give renewed purpose, value and significance to the materials – as a reminder that even through the hardest times of life…I, all of us have purpose, value and significance.
Redemption underpins my practice and wider life, weaving through my creative processes: the sculptures are a tacit reminder that we are both stronger and more precious than we may feel.”
I want to continue to see what is overlooked and discarded and make something beautiful and worthwhile that can decorate a home or a body and become a glimmer in a person’s mind that acts as a tool to remind them they are able and stronger than what they think they are.
I have led a life of helping people in my previous work and in my personal life and in a way I want to continue helping people through my art practice. Emotional and mental well-being is an area that I have struggled with and through my making and designing I have found a voice; an outlet for creativity to flow, I believe that art has a place to help our mental health and well-being.