Thursday 8 April 2010
Test pieces (Lee, Kim, Sasha )
Trials and test pieces although we will be moving back over to Central St Martins in the next few weeks we will be displaying some of our research material in the ceramics gallery during the summer and hoping to be back for Design Week in September.
Michelle's work in progress
Ken Eastman and Gordon Baldwin
Contemporary room
I felt as our time in the ceramics studio is drawing to a close it would be interesting to include some of the outstanding pieces on show within the space we have become fond of over the past 3 months or so.
The contemporary room is my personal favourite shown here are Martin Smith's work but the two pieces I'm drawn to are Gordon Baldwin and Ken Eastman's work. They sit together in perfect harmony and resonate a quietness. In fact this entire room as a quality of stillness to it.
Sunday 4 April 2010
Next week
Michelle and myself will be in the studio next week from Tuesday through to Thursday. Another kiln load should be ready to unpack by that time.
Some of those pieces will be Michelle's final pieces.
new models
The carved models came out of the kiln last week giving an indication of have these new forms are beginning to behave. Considering these are scaled down versions of what I'm hoping to be at least 3m high there is still along way to go. I'm currently in conversation with a materials scientist in Oxford to start to understand where the technical problems are likely to occur considering the scale. At this stage I believe this needs to be addressed before I plough on with further design work.
Tuesday 23 March 2010
A little inspiration can go a long way!
Comments always welcome...
Over the next few weeks I’ll be collecting feedback on the perception of the materials that I use and I have set up a comments book too. I encourage you to leave your comments and suggestions here and I will post the comments from the book here as well for you to ponder on...
V&A RESIDENCY EXTENDED
Today was my second day. Yesterday was spent moving my creative tool box and materials across from university, fabric cutting, glazing and sewing and today was much the same.
With only two days in the workshop this week, I was determined today that I would get a kiln full of glazed fabric with a range of my glazes and shapes in order to have a variety of pieces to work into jewellery over the next 4 weeks. Yes folks, final assessment is looming...so it's all go...everyone keep those fingers crossed for Friday's kiln results!
Can jewellery objects really have a place in the ceramics department at the V&A...?? I hear you cry! That should sort the ladies what do from the ladies what lunch!!! Watch this space, Michelle
Friday 19 February 2010
working process
Our guests
It was fantastic to spend some time making pinch pots and a turtle.
Darren our amazing technician helping to centre clay for one of our visitors:
Fire-Emotion-Distruction
This week was so exciting because I finally made a small fire!
This was the first chance to see how different shapes I was making during this time react with the fire!
Experiments you can see here was made to help me understand how fire can naturally "draw" on clay. How the carbon and soot changes the colour of clay and how can I use it for fireplaces. One more question is how different shapes of clay can form the fire and change its behaviour.
Here are some of my experiments:
just me working :)
and this is absolutely gorgeous "fire" drawings in my opinion:
Waiting for your response!
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Thursday 4 February 2010
Thank you to all our visitors so far and a special thanks...
Please visit her website and see her beautiful collection online: http://www.maisonsauvage.de/
Wednesday 3 February 2010
Our second day at the V&A
Wednesday 27 January 2010
The first day
Our first day at the Victoria and Albert Museum this was like setting out on a new adventure although a little chilly inside the beautiful new and very clean ceramic studio. This space is open airy and light. We began our explorations in the ceramics gallery spaces with informal introductions and familarising ourselves with the V&A collections search available in each room for anyone to use.
Whilst we were searching for the ceramics department we stumbled across this outstanding ceramic tiled staircase. A particular point of interest to Lee.
Lunch very quickly approached and work finally began once we were happily fed.
We opened the studio for the public the come and visit us between 2-4pm by which time work was fully underway. We even have small test pieces going in to the kiln Monday morning. Not bad for an afternoons work.
See you next Wednesday.....