Nuala Creed

Nuala Creed is an Irish ceramic sculptor living in Northern California, United States. She is known for a series of over 120 Ceramic Archivists, on display as a permanent collection at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. She is also known for her political work.

Nuala Creed
Born	Dublin, Ireland
Education	California College of the Arts
Known for	Ceramic Art Sculpture
Website	nualacreed.com

Early life and education

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Creed lived in London, England, as a young adult,^{[citation needed]} and then moved to Boston in 1979 where she took courses at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.^{[citation needed]}

In 1996, she moved to San Francisco, where she earned her BFA at California College of the Arts, graduating with high distinction.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Creed has worked primarily with the human figure, incorporating themes of childhood, vulnerability, and social issues.^{[citation needed]}

Political work

After being invited to make an ornament (a ceramic hummingbird) for the White House Christmas tree in 2002, Creed began making variations of this work in protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. This led to a series called "Babes in Arms".^{[1][better source needed]}

Creed's political work has been published in several art books ^[2][3] and shown in galleries in Europe and the United States.^[4][5]

Ceramic Archivists

Inspired by the Terra Cotta Warriors in China, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle invited Creed to begin making figures of employees who have worked at the Archive for three or more years. This series began in 2010, and is currently^[when?] ongoing.^{[citation needed]}

Prominent figures such as Ted Nelson, Brewster Kahle, and Aaron Swartz are included in this collection.^[6] Thirty-two of these figures were exhibited at "From Clay to Cloud", at Loyola Marymount University's Laband Art Gallery in Los Angeles in 2016.^{[citation needed]}

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  Internet archivists by Nuala Creed
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  Brewster Kahle
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  Aaron Swartz
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  June Goldsmith
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  Peter Brantley