#ceramicselective

10 February 2021 

This weeks task was to find ceramic pieces around our house. I was looking around and found the perfect ceramic piece which relates the MOST to my theme of water movement, which is this flower pot that has the most beautiful wave like patterns and it has such a nice shade of blue on it too. Love it.

StudioArhoj - https://www.instagram.com/studioarhoj/

Studio Arhoj, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a small independent design and production studio run by founder Anders Arhoj.

Anders began his work in interiors and design while studying in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. After moving back to Denmark he began operating a small design studio from his apartment in Vesterbro doing graphic work, identity, branding and kids illustration - and eventually moving into the world of ceramics.

By 2013 Anders was able to officially start Studio Arhoj in an old envelope factory in Islands Brygge, a former industrial and dockland area just outside central Copenhagen.

Eva Farkasova 

21 January 2021

Eva actually had me shocked when I saw her name and realised she iw from the same country as I am which is Slovakia. Its such a small country so to find a well known amazing artist like Eva had me feeling really proud. 

I’ve looked into her art and it is all so unique and interesting how she can manipulate a material like clay into these flexible looking pieces. 

14 January 2021

For our first task we were asked to pick our favourite ceramic pieces. I have picked 2 artists that I’ve loved for a long time as they both inspire me to make my own creations in the future. 

Carrie Kitzie - Studio Mimmi 

Studio Mimmi is made by an artist called Carrie Kitzie in Portland , Oregon USA. She discovered her love for ceramics one day in class and decided that its the career path she wanted to go on. she works with clay to create little portraits of her cat Mimmi in different ways and styles. She has a series of cats related to fruits and many more. She has come such a long way that now she has her own business selling these precious pieces world wide! 

Amii Handmade Ceramics

Amerii makes handmade pots inspired by animals! Pottery has been one of my favourite ways to create art. I love that her pots are really unique and it’s very similar to my style of pottery making which is to make them into animal or flower inspired pots with either a creepy or unusual face feature. My last semesters ceramic piece was infact Inspired by Amerii.

Ceramics in Expanding Practice | Clay +

These are the results of my finished project ' Narrative of the Senses" Clay +

These pieces were fired in a second and higher temperature firing.

A number of my pieces were de-constructed , re-used in a second exploratory piece and re-fired at a higher temperature over 1000 degrees.

The results are different with such a vibrant popping of the colours.

While I was investigating how I wanted to layer with spices to create a visually interesting sculptural piece, I returned to one of the first practices we learned in ceramics elective workshops of using paper to create the structure first before we moved to clay.

This was fired at a low temperature, I like the result so far but I plan to refire this piece at a higher temperature to hopefully get a different appearance with the glazes melting into each other.

I also used a macro lense in the photography studio with Tutor Paul Tarpey to take some of these images.

I have quite a good few of macro images taken which gives me options when editing and choosing how I could use them in various settings , e.g.; in a background or a display

Dipping material into clay slip,

these images below are some of the results after the first low temperature firing.