My own Photos from Christies public exhibition – Lucie Rie and Jennifer Lee – raw glazing and adding oxides/materials to clay bodies What are the chances I found two of my favorite ceramicists in the same place, very, almost overly, tasteful curation at Christies, the de Waal tipped it over the edge. Both Rie and …
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Unit 7 Research, THE POISONED CHALICE
Sodeisha Movement Akiyama Yo, part of the movement, worked with his father in a traditional Kyoto pottery but also sought to rebel against the strict rules and regulations of the ‘salon’. For example the movement showed pottery and sculpture in the same exhibition, something that was frowned upon by traditional Japanese potters. They also refused …
APPENDIXES for Unit 6 Agency to Change. Hand Carving Hand
Hand Carving Hand RESEARCH Kersten Bergendal, Swedish artist recognised as a ‘pioneer of time based participatory intervention’. The Trekroner Art Plan Project – “Open Plan – An New Commons for Trekonner” , Bergendal asked residents of a new urban area “what would you like to share, or do together? What do you wish to share …
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contextual research for plate project.
https://www.c82.net/mineralogy/b211 – great little description of feldspars and their variety. https://www.britannica.com/art/porcelain – makeup and ingredients of porcelain. https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/tambacounda-hospital-manuel-herz-senegal – “our entry took the form of a proposal embedded in research and collaboration; not a building, but a suggestion of how to approach the project.’ Herz’ considered thinking won the competition.” Sometimes a way of thinking …
research file for summer term
https://designmuseum.org/discover-design/all-stories/what-is-good-design-a-quick-look-at-dieter-rams-ten-principles# https://watermark.silverchair.com/1-3-4-153.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAArwwggK4BgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggKpMIICpQIBADCCAp4GCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM4Ox69JEAhhitbF8nAgEQgIICbxYJmq-pgPKsjYNd6mNIf2bz6rugCJ1Shz2hLK7G5hyjMUXphz6RJusF0JRUBOSBbjZafpvmGdsFnRTzpahLQom4PSq4foMYMDmuUz2XqX6lvOTjTr-Jkylv0uDVeZFejfsxag4JUMJUPOIszQD534j9za-9lYMu_h7U206B6d4cUkRqEciLrnQStqS8wA-PnotxKyCKIDk7bfRSWUnFr0pnIwOpsK1En3OtgDK5w_vNTTrLxKtpnVcIYGr_toySzZbQO5JYtupveQMzXGXO74FgCeJn1fR3SmioYmhviQPGykaO0TxoDBVv-onPg3pc_h8xfvhqR4xtpDIHmjDWu0gENN5DSU5xm5KJw6lohmZcE8vcjIXbCQMsiypUU4SUaElgVNlGdpFVwNQigi1U9AYqhwPzTIWt1KEd_jUwVW0E6910ZBXX-bCxQoK9zAiAA2HORc95GIgNVVn-OhlkbjqUg_nFi3EAkbS5P-ntngDX3rfRFPcAbsOPFJnJwH-x00q_J3z3DzkQPsHjobsxnkPp2SOpYpLO10F0ldhakSGzccKQrHPwckCZOU7jEKa8PFs2ZRq6uiFDap103-7JsVEQnxqX9cV7rt9a3iaUm4BKAoF8OzAVKOv-vl5egHr8Z77jekOw9DUD-etOJ-PrGEUYDOKoRdeYaIcBEonrqvAhaj4Bv03JFE0SiVzT0lS9VgNhy5jPV-TSPVeI0XvdS9cuz8kmvA5Rji-f7gpYCRzpyAuNt_LW7RKKVZd0ZxvT-Ufr1PN9AoJZXKngAFPA9rrqPFz67nf6MMCmY3SlMZkTrUqX9IMv0Ev3IZcwYxuZ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10560/combination-teapot-teapot-bogler-theodor/ https://www.moma.org/collection/works/3836 To what extent did time, economics and politics effect the design process of Theodor Bogler’s Combination Teapot? I have chosen these three frames to look through because in the world the teapot was designed in, they were inextricably linked. In 1923, the same year he became business director of the Bauhaus …
pieces for unit 2
jugs handbuilding techniques borrowed from; watching YouTube clips of Maria Martinez, Tibetan black pottery potters, Chinese Yixing clay teapot (purple sand teapot) makers. Mugs flatback Verbeia is a Romano-british deity, thought to be the deification of the river Wharfe, in Wharfedale, Yorkshire. I have chosen to use her as a motif throughout this term because …
To what extent did time, economics and politics effect the design process of Theodor Bogler’s Combination Teapot?
I have chosen these three frames to look through because in the world the teapot was designed in, they were inextricably linked. Between 1923 and 1924, around the same time he became business director of the Bauhaus pottery, Theodor Bogler designed the Combination teapot. The Combination Teapot (also called the Modular teapot) is a design …
monumenting forgotten histories of Trollers Gill
To document and monumentalise the forgotten tales of The Miner, The Troll and The Barghest of Trollers Gill. Sometimes we are aware of green spaces only in their current state, seemingly wild and sometimes untamed but many of these places have an industrial past, a human past. Intervention into the landscape and countryside includes more …
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The Thames, culture or nature?
After simply being struck by the strange beauty of the European eel, its life cycle, and mysterious situation, I began to use its symbolism or iconography as a representation of the natural or ecological character of the Thames. Although clay is a ‘natural’ material, over time it has been deeply imbued with, and imbedded in …