Exhibition thoughts

Text: Janice’s travel flasks are a material response to William Holburne’s paper passport document, his travelling Yixing teapot and his experience of the Grand Tour. The travel flasks take the flattened globular form of the Yixing teapot and the texture, patination and delicacy of the incised and print decorated porcelain relates to the 200 year-old …

Direct printing onto clay

I decided to try a batch of flasks where I screen print directly onto the slab that has had the folded paper pressed onto it and is ready to be press moulded. The recipe for this print medium for direct printing onto a plastic slab is the simplest - heavy glaze medium plus under glaze …

Flasks decalled

The decals arrived. I would say the print defines the building sketch more than the text. I wanted the text more defined. Part of the R&D process. The shape of the flask is tricky to decal. I know the decal printers can work with you to shape the decal according to the curved body of …

Words for Holburne Project

We are submitting 5 sentences to describe our project for exhibition and media purposes to Fiona. I emailed mine this evening. Here are mine Janice’s travel flasks are a material response to William Holburne’s paper passport document, his travelling Yixing teapot and his experience of the Grand Tour. At first glance two unrelated objects, however, …

More decoration for the flasks

Still having lots of discussion regarding methods for printing on clay. When I'm down in  a month I'm going to test some methods, eg laser etching. In the meantime I am halfway through trying screen printing, and ready to cut out and stick on some decals. Still working out the best glaze medium, Conor suggested …

Flask inspiration

I've been looking at folded porcelain, as I'm going to try press moulding the flasks in their moulds, maybe also slab building, as I would like to fold like paper, and create seams as well as making the porcelain as thin as possible to emulate old paper. Doris Banks (undated) porcelain vessels - image 1 …

Muse: exhibition interaction

I was interested in the Japanese temple books that pilgrims and travellers carry round with them and get them stamped in each temple - that Tim Parry-Williams mentioned. I've read a bit about them, they're called goshuincho. The name literally means ‘Honourable Red Stamp Book'. What was particularly interesting about them was that their origins were …

Moon flask development

I sketched through some of the elements of the development of the Yixing travel teapot into the moon flask, which will be porcelain or fine bone china with added Bath stone and oxides to create the patina of Holburne's passport, which is the other artefact that I paired with the teapot. I have cast one, …