Felicity Aylieff is an artist of international standing recognised for her research into large scale ceramics. Working from her studio in Bath for more than 3 decades, she has more recently developed a collaborative relationship with manufactories in Jingdezhen, China where she makes monumental pots. The surfaces of these pots explore contemporary translations of traditionally used techniques. Her work shows her passion for material and process through its use of colour, pattern and decorative techniques. Education has always played a prominent role in her career. She was awarded a Professorship in ceramics from Bath Spa University in 2000 and has been teaching in the Ceramics and Glass department at the RCA since 2001. She has work in numerous international private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert museum, London, and is represented by Adrian Sassoon, London. Born in Edlesborough, Bedfordshire in 1954, Felicity studied at Bath Academy of Art, 1972 -8 gaining a 1st Class Hons degree in ceramics and textiles. She went on to undertake a teaching postgraduate year at Goldsmiths College 1978-9. She taught at Bedales school in Hampshire renowned for its Art department and ‘progressive’ teaching philosophy, 1979 – 82. She was then a regular visiting lecturer to numerous courses including Loughborough, Glasgow, Goldsmith’s and Cardiff whilst being an associate lecturer in foundation and ceramic studies at Bath College of HE. She became fulltime at Bath Spa University in 1989-2001. During this period she undertook an MPhil degree at the RCA, 1993- 6, researching the suitability of glass and porcelain inclusions into clay bodies for large scale ceramic production - ‘the Elusive Body’. Felicity has been a member and an advisor on numerous committees, including the ‘Think Tank’ for Year of the Artist in 2000 and The Crafts Council, 2002-4. Until recently she was a trustee of Contemporary Applied Arts and Chair of NACHE (National Assoc. of Ceramics in Higher Education) She remains a trustee for the Craft Potters Charitable Trust and a board member of the Acquisitions committee of the Crafts Study centre Farnham. Between 2003-4 she was advisor to Cleere Conservation, Coadestone advising on the development of the material. As part of her personal remit to promote ceramics in education she is advisor and coordinator of the ‘Discovery’ education programme for Ceramic Art London. She set up a group studio in Bath in a disused Saw mill in 1995 for emerging ceramic artists, and in 2000 she restored an old Chapel in Bath which she shares as a studio with internationally renowned potter, Takeshi Yasuda. Since 2006 she has been making work in China and recently co-founded with Yasuda, the Red House Design studio in the historic ‘porcelain city’ of Jingdezhen. Felicity has consistently exhibited and lectured at venues throughout the UK and abroad. Since 2000 catalogues have accompanied all Solo shows with key essays about the artist and her work. She has been the recipient of 2 major Art Council Awards, the first in 2002 for the touring exhibition Sense and Perception at Manchester City Art Gallery and in 2008 a major award for the touring exhibition and artists book, ‘Out of China’. She organized and Chaired the international Symposium ‘White Gold’ in 2006, project funded by the Diawa Foundation. Since joining the ceramics and Glass department at the RCA in 2001 as senior tutor, she has been responsible for it’s day-to-day organization, course planning and strategy. She has been external examiner to the undergraduate courses at Wolverhampton, Cardiff and Ulster and the MA course at Dublin and Ulster where she was also an examiner for a PhD in ceramics. She was made a Fellow of the RCA in 2008