Fired to 1150, lower end of the range. It didn't mature, surface patchy and grey. Taller than the white. I've put them back in at 1200. The danger is warping and slumping.
Week 4 writing notes
1. Read at least one of the texts in Writing Workshop folder. I read all of them, I'll add notes tomorrow. I refreshed my reading about OOO, I'll add notes I'll add notes about no 3. I read some articles in Cabinet magazine. 2. Find an article / review in a current magazine or journal and analyse its style (just notes … Continue reading Week 4 writing notes
Wild structures
Sketching through the structure of a drystane dyke, the large foundations, stones diminishing in size as they go up in elevation, chocs filling space, occasional large tie stones often at the corners, capstone layer at the top. Gaps left for wildlife. Last sketch of the night, so should be last in the line of sketches, … Continue reading Wild structures
Jane Cairns
Featured image: Rust – Jane Cairns – photo by Artist. (http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/directory/maker/jane-cairns/project/potlatch/) Accessed 30/12/17 Quotation: About this project An ongoing series of open vessels and covered jars that take as their starting point observed urban and industrial surfaces. The series name is taken from the native American practice of giving gifts with no expectation of receiving anything … Continue reading Jane Cairns
Erosion
I propose to work in layers; make ceramics to bisque stage that incorporate the physical samples collected on site. Then take the work and put it back out onsite and use the environment to shape, weather, erode and transform the work before collecting and taking it back into the studio for further refinement and firing. … Continue reading Erosion
Alternative firing techniques
When researching contemporary Scottish ceramicists, I came across a couple of makers who utilise alternative firing methods that I have been considering - Raku predominantly in order to utilise local materials in the post firing reduction, leaves, peat, wood shavings and newspapers. Patricia Shone https://www.patriciashone.co.uk/about/ Erosion Jar 9, hand built, ht 25cm, raku fired, 2016. https://www.patriciashone.co.uk/gallery/raku/ … Continue reading Alternative firing techniques
Local clay bodies
Atelier NL (http://ateliernl.com/) Tile map of clay samples from Noordoostpolder region of the Netherlands http://ateliernl.com/projects/polderceramics, accessed 26/12/17 Atelier NL are based in the Netherlands and spent a year collecting soil samples from all the farmers in Noordoostpolder region. Using this clay, they have a range of ceramics that use local materials, use traditional ceramic functional … Continue reading Local clay bodies
Additions to clay bodies
Ceramic artists who add collected and found objects to clay bodies Virginia Pates (http://virginiapates.blogspot.co.uk/) The Lower Parking Lot Porcelain, thrown and altered, with inclusions of dirt from the lower parking lot of the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, fired to cone 6 oxidation, 2014. (http://virginiapates.blogspot.co.uk/) accessed 26/12/17 This is a pot with … Continue reading Additions to clay bodies
Takuro Kuwata
Featured image: Tea Bowl 2013 - Takuro Kuwata - photo by Kenji Takahash courtesy of Kosaku Kanechika (Phaidon, 2017) The principles of critical regionalism and tectonics that I've been exploring over the last few months are visible in ceramic practice, one example is Takuro Kuwata who uses traditional Japanese materials and skills in a contemporary way … Continue reading Takuro Kuwata
Annotated bibliography
This was the week of our deadline for the annotated bibliography, where we draw a line under our research so far and create a bibliography that we have made notes for ourself of the relevance and importance of each source. CARLSON-REDDIG, K., 2011. Re-Reading Critical Regionalism, I. SABOUN and J. VANEGAS, eds. In: Local Identities … Continue reading Annotated bibliography
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