Cecilia Moore fell in love with metalworking at school, shirking academic classes to spend time in the metalwork room instead. “The metalwork teacher didn't know how to get rid of me, so he just carried on with his other classes, while I worked at the back of the room,” she says. Upon leaving school, she had “huge energy” to carry on metalworking, so she joined a course at Birmingham School of Jewellery, eventually specialising in creating holloware in silver. She continued her education in Paris and Dublin, developing the techniques she employs now, particularly raising and patination, which she uses to create playful metal sculptures, each imbued with an anthropomorphic quality.
Cecilia Moore