Making a new mould and -plaster flask

While I was on campus Richard helped me make a new plaster orginial flask, and a new 3 part mould. I wanted to slip cast from a new mould as the old one had problems with the neck. I wanted a smoother, thinner flask.

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 …

Flasks in for a glaze firing

The first 12 flasks are in for a glaze firing, I'll take them out of the kiln and see if I programmed the kiln properly.   I'll experiment on a couple of the larger flasks too. My decals arrive tomorrow so I should be able to have them decalled and put in a decal firing …

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, …

Decal update

I updated the decals to include the text and the stamps I made the decals for the 12 small flasks, layering the drawing over the text by adjusting the opacity. Then lastly the stamps. I sent them off for printing last night, hopefully I will get it back in time to put the flasks in …

Decal the first 12 flasks: progress updates added to post

I put the kiln on for the first time myself today woo hoo. I put all 12 flasks in just to keep everything moving and thought I would glaze them and decal them. Next week I'll make another 12 that I will screen print text on to the plastic slab before assembly, let dry off, …

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 …

Decoration for the flasks

The muse objects in the museum have stamped and inscribed decoration. As discussed in previous post, Conor and I discussed the practicalities of screen printing and laser cutting to make a stencil etc. Meanwhile I sent the files out to be printed as a high fire decal. The downfall to the decal is it has …

Muse: exhibition interaction II

I emailed the museum, Catrin was kind enough to answer a couple of quick questions regarding - should the flasks be interactive and would anyone be interested in interacting with them. Firstly, she thought that the interactive element we discussed was worth pursuing. Secondly, the university,  social media and what's on guide can help get …