Blooming' New Work by Valéria Nascimento

Blooming' New Work by Valéria Nascimento

May 1st - May 31st 2014

‘Born in Brazil, 1962. I initially graduated with a degree in Architecture in 1985 helping me cement my interest in the fusion between urban landscapes and natural forms. I was introduced to clay a year later and became fascinated by its multiple possibilities for expression and the development of ideas.

My inspiration is drawn mostly from the natural world and porcelain has the smoothness and the malleability that I need to create new shapes, manipulating it to appear in some cases defiantly weightless. My work is about repetitive sequencing with separate elements to form a cohesive sculptural group. I am principally interested in large-scale wall installation projects.’

- See more at: http://www.cpaceramics.com/ccc/futureex#sthash.y4s9f1L5.dpuf

Blooming' New Work by Valéria Nascimento
May 1st-31st 2014

May 1st - May 31st 2014

Born in Brazil, 1962. I initially graduated with a degree in Architecture in 1985 helping me cement my interest in the fusion between urban landscapes and natural forms. I was introduced to clay a year later and became fascinated by its multiple possibilities for expression and the development of ideas. My inspiration is drawn mostly from the natural world and porcelain has the smoothness and the malleability that I need to create new shapes, manipulating it to appear in some cases defiantly weightless. My work is about repetitive sequencing with separate elements to form a cohesive sculptural group. I am principally interested in large-scale wall installation projects. - See more at: http://www.cpaceramics.com/

Blooming' New Work by Valéria Nascimento

Mo Jupp at CCC London

 

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Mo Jupp at CCC London

Adrian Villar Rojas at the Serpentine Gallery

Great show by Adrian Villar Rojas at The Serpentine London. Huge clay sculptures crackes before before our eyes.

"Kurt Cobain, kissing kittens and tray upon tray of apples ... artist Adrián Villar Rojas wants to recreate the whole world in clay – then watch it crumble before his eyes. Ahead of his forthcoming show, the first in the Serpentine's new Sackler Gallery, we get exclusive access to his workshop"
(The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/sep/19/adrian-villar-rojas-planet-clay-exhibition#/?picture=417650068&index=1

The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery opens with an extraordinary site-specific installation by the young Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas, in which the space has been re-imagined as a fossilised world of ruins and ancient monuments
From a sculpture of a mummified Kurt Cobain to a crumbling elephant, 33 year-old Villar Rojas combines pop culture, science fiction and quantum mechanics with the natural world to create a contemporary Pompeii. Fabricated almost entirely out of mud, clay and brick, this grey and dusty vision of the future offers a fantastical comment on the fragility of the world’s ecology.

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/adri%C3%A1n-villar-rojas-today-we-reboot-planet
 

Adrian Villar Rojas at the Serpentine Gallery

Bev Bell-Hughes and Margareth O'Rorke

Bev Bell-Hughes and Margareth O'Rorke

Jennifer Lee at EHC London

JENNIFER LEE

Exhibition Now Open
9 October - 1 November

Jennifer Lee's first London exhibition in five years is now open.
The exhibition comprises of 17 works and 5 drawings.

The private view was very well attended and had a great response. By the close of the evening the majority of the works had sold.

The exhibition is fully illustrated online here and continues until 1 November.

Jennifer Lee at EHC London

Ceramic Art London 2013

CAL 2013 is coming a bit later than usual, the doors of the Royal College will be opening on the 12th of April. Warmer climate and a every year renewed program are a great temptation. Great artists are participating and the experience is enriched by the wonderful lectures exploring the diverse world of ceramics.


It would be a pity to miss it !

Jin Eui Kim

Ceramic Art London 2013 is the major selling fair for contemporary studio ceramics at the Royal College of Art on 12 April to 14 April 2013.

Ceramic Art London 2013 provides a unique showcase for contemporary studio ceramics featuring work from leading national and international makers.

•	Discover and buy work from over 75 leading contemporary ceramic artists
•	Enjoy an integrated education programme of talks, demonstrations and films designed to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of studio ceramics
•	Talent spot young emerging ceramic artists from the Royal College of Art

If you are a Collector, gallery owner, potter or enthusiast and want to see the best in contemporary studio ceramics check out our visitor registration page to receive regular updates on Ceramic Art London 2013.

Ceramic Art London 2013

Freud and Ceramics

23 November 2012 - 10 February 2013
The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freud's study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.

Christie Brown

DreamWork

Artist and ceramicist Christie Brown responds to the Freud Museum in two key ways. Firstly, Brown is intrigued by the significance and nature of Freud’s large collection of figurative antique artefacts. Her second focus is on the idea that since human beings project a range of emotions onto objects, these objects have a life of their own. Drawing parallels between falling asleep and leaving the museum or studio, she suggests that inanimate objects may become animated in ways that are beyond our control, like dreams.

Freud and Ceramics

Point of Departure, RCA, London

Point of Departure
Great Western Studios 
Exhibition runs: 27th Nov - 4th Dec 2012

I have a weak spor for the RCA students, their work is never disappointing ...
Here is a great chance to see 2nd yr students from the ceramic and glass department, these are some images of Cristina Vezzini's works.

Point of Departure presents an opportunity to view work by second year master’s students from the Royal College of Art’s celebrated Ceramics and Glass programme at a pivotal point in development.

The programme itself has been described as a site for discursive practice, where cultural, social, personal, historical and aesthetic concerns intersect. An overarching belief that the skills of making and thinking can develop in tandem, and that the made object is a vehicle for expression that can engage with the individual and society, lies behind much of its students’ output. 
The artists do not see ceramics and glass merely as a fixed set of media, instead prizing and celebrating diversity and breadth whilst embracing connections.
As work in progress, Point of Departure includes eighteen individual artists’ investigations taking form. It gives a rare insight into the thinking behind the works at this ‘point of departure’. The exhibition reflects recent discoveries within the students’ artistic journeys as they establish individual identities.
The work itself covers a wide spectrum – from design for manufacture, the unique art object to installation. Themes being dealt with range from the body, the domestic and the architectural, at the core of which is material understanding.

Helle Bjerregaard
Rachel Hopkins
Sabina Stumberger
Kane Cali                                   
Rosanna Martin                                   
Ester Svensson
Kevin Callaghan                       
Enrique Perezalba Red                                    
Luke Twigger           
Eunghan Choi                           
Helena Plado                                               
Cristina Vezzini
Olivia Fink                                   
Shane Porter                                               
Jonathan Wade
Lydia Hardwick                       
Mella Shaw                                               
Yiru Wang

Great Western Studios

65 Alfred Road London W2 5EU
 t. 020 7221 0100 fx. 020 7221 0200
info@greatwesternstudios.com

Point of Departure, RCA, London

Sara Flynn, Erskine Hall & Coe, London

14 November to 06 December

Erskine, Hall & Coe Ltd

SARA FLYNN BY SEBASTIAN BLACKIE

How artists locate themselves within a wider community of practice may bring insight to their inspiration as well as some of the imperatives that sustain them.  Sara Flynn belongs to a generation of Irish ceramic artists who are confidently engaging with an international audience and whose work stylistically is far removed from the rustic traditional crafts, which are often closely associated with tourism and in Ireland are charged with a particularly powerful cultural/national identity.  It is then surprising to learn that Flynn is not from the city but works in picturesque rural isolation on the very western edge of Europe.   As many Irish have done she looks westward to the future, her work and life style being a measure of how heterogeneous craft practice has become.  Her pots are not emblematic of a rural idyll nor in any conscious way are they influenced by the visual landscape in which she works.  There is however a relationship between Flynn’s vessels and the place she chooses to make them.  It is not a topographical relationship but the quality of solitude that supports focused reflection so necessary for some kinds of art practice.

Flynn’s work reveals some of the characteristics of Hans Coper’s work; a potter she has greatly admired throughout her ceramic career.  There is an obsessive passion for clay’s unique qualities, a sustaining fascination with the “thingness” of vessels as abstract forms largely unrelated to utilitarian pots which serve our bodily needs.  Coper’s famous thought that he was: ”like a demented piano tuner seeking the perfect pitch” is an appropriate way to understand Flynn’s practice relaying as it does on just a few key element.

All Flynn’s work is thrown porcelain.  With modernist concerns such as truth to material and process we are used to ‘read’ how things are made.  We are familiar with the ‘vocabulary’ of construction with resistant materials and reductive processes such as carving or the results of casting with liquids.  But the use of plastic or viscous material with its shifting identity is encountered less often in our daily lives and the aesthetics of displacement seem more mysterious, Flynn’s exploration of form is not confined by the wheel but develops often asymmetrically from the rhythms of throwing, the line of the rim often being particularly important.   The soft clay forms are squeezed, indented or pinched to enhance fluidity and establish an individual identity.  Flynn’s creativity is focused in the act of working with plastic clay; any subsequent work is at its service.

Sara Flynn, Erskine Hall & Coe, London

Keith Harrison residency at the Vand A

Keith Harrison is doing a six month residency at the Victoria and Albert museum London. During this time, until march 2013, you will have the chance to meet the artist on open studio days and participate to various interesting activities...
Just love it !

Victoria and Albert Museum

If you love ceramics and are interested in the transformative potential of clay, meet our Artist in Residence Keith Harrison this Saturday 3 November and see his work in progress. 13.00 – 16.00 http://bit.ly/XZKkeY

Keith Harrison residency at the Vand A

Edmund De Waal, 1000 hours

Alan Cristea Gallery is pleased to present a thousand hours, an exhibition of 11 new ceramic installations by Edmund de Waal which will be shown at 31 & 34 Cork Street from 6 October until 10 November 2012.

1000 thrown porcelain vessels, some glazed in celadon and white, some unglazed, within a pair of aluminium vitrines with transparent and translucent acrylic

Each vitrine 243.5 × 75 × 210 cm

 Overall dimensions 243.5 × 210 × 210 cm

I love Edmund De Waal, there I admit it. He is just the best !
He is subtle, quiet, calm while producing work that is powerful and grand (in a subtle kind of way), always the same and always different ...he is a naturally sophisticated potter (in an unpretenscious, subtle, quiet, calm kind of way )
WOW!

Edmund De Waal, 1000 hours

Ceramics and Painting, London

CERAMICS & PAINTINGS

11 October - 8 November, 2012

EWEN HENDERSON

KEVIN CONNOR, STEVEN HARVEY,
ALLAN MITELMAN, AIDA TOMESCU, KARL WIEBKE

In association with Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney

Ewen Henderson

James Erskine, Matthew Hall and David Coe
invite you to the exhibition preview:

Thursday 11 October,
from 6-8pm

at Erskine, Hall & Coe, 15 Royal Arcade, Albermarle Street, London, W1S 4SP

Ceramics and Painting, London

Anna Barlow: Savouring the remnants

Anna Barlow:
Savouring the remnants

An exhibition of eye deceiving
ceramics by British ceramicist
Anna Barlow
 21 September–12 October 2012

 Bitcha Gallery

Great ceramic pieces, check fb site of gallery https://www.facebook.com/BichaGallery?filter=1

Anna Barlow: Savouring the remnants

Tent London

20-23 September 2012
Old Truman Brewery London E1

Tent London is one of the largest design trade shows taking place during the London Design Festival each September.
Now in its sixth year at the Old Truman Brewery, Tent London presents over 200 international exhibitors, showing the very latest in contemporary interior products - furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, materials and accessories.

Talking about ceramics let's see...
(for more imagese follow the Pinterest link  )

Don't miss this rare opportunity to see Mashiko pottery in their first ever exhibition outside of Japan.Mashiko pottery is known the world over for the quality of clay and exquisite glazed finish of the pieces.

Award winning ceramicist Ikuko Iwamoto is heavily influenced by nature, especially the microscopic world. Iwamoto will be launching a new range of ceramics at Tent. 

Flux Stoke-on-Trent is an innovative company designing and manufacturing English fine bone China in the traditional heartland of the English ceramics industry.

Tent London

Ruth Duckworth in London

Beautiful exhibition by great ceramist Ruth Duckworth is on at Erskine, Hall &Coe. Don't miss the chance to view her spectacular modernist's masterpieces at least on-line !

"We are pleased to announce that the Ruth Duckworth exhibition is now open. A busy private view was attended by several members of the Duckworth family
as well as Thea Burger - Ruth Duckworth's friend and agent for 30 years.
By the close of the evening seven works had sold including sales to two National Museums."

The exhibition is fully illustrated online, and the catalogue can be viewed here.


The exhibition continues until the 5th of October.
During the exhibition our opening hours will be Monday to Saturday: 10am - 6pm
Erskine, Hall & Coe Ltd, 15 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street, London W1S 4SP 

Non perdete l'ocassione di ammirare le bellissime opere della grande ceramista Ruth Duckworth
in mostra alla galleria Erskine, Hall &Coe di Londra, le foto sono online !

Ruth Duckworth in London

Gabriele Koch, London

Gabriele Koch

New Departures

13 September - 6 October 2012

"Gabriele Koch has established an international reputation for making, by hand, instantly recognisable forms: spheres, amphoras and bowls, burnished like old leather and given a special character by the decorative effects brought about by smoke in a sawdust kiln. But she has recently come to a turning point in her career. After a quarter of a century of perfecting and controlling the ethereal patterns which come from the smoke, a new development is on its way."
Private view on the 12th

Contemporary Ceramics Centre
63 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3BF
Open Mon – Sat 10:30 – 6.00
Tel: 020 7242 9644 contemporary.ceramics@virgin.net

Gabriele Koch, London

Decorated

Contemporary Ceramics Centre, London
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Decorated

Collect 2012

(Takahiro Kondo, Green Head)
Eccoci all'immancabile avvenimento del craft inglese, questo week end inaugura Collect 2012, la fiera mercato dei designer-makers. Collect, diversamente dalla sorella Origin (che si tiene in settembre), si rivolge ad un pubblico di connoisseur e collezionisti, gli artisti vengono rappresentati dalle gallerie più prestigiose.

Gli eventi collegati a Collect sono numerosi, presentazioni di cortometraggi, conferenze e molto altro. Io purtroppo non riuscirò ad andare ma mi sto consolando con il bellissimo catalogo on-line. Evviva il web !
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect/collect-catalogue2012/#/1/

"Great art and culture inspires us, brings us toghether and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In short it makes our lives better."

Collect 2012 starts in London on the 11th, a great event with the very best of contemporary craft. There are many interesting talks and presentation during the week end and for sure is an experience not to be missed. I, unfortunately won't be there, but the great catalogue on-line is a relieve. 


http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect/collect-catalogue2012/#/1/

Collect 2012

Ceramics at Affordable Art Fair London

Mi diverte come le ceramiche e i ceramisti spuntano in luoghi differenti, e si fanno notare. Queste teste di Johan Thunell presenti all'Affordable Art Fair di Londra sono state pubblicate sul sito del prestigioso quotidiano The Guardian on-line tra dodici che rappresentavano il mondo in 24 ore.

Sempre all' AAF altre teste di Sara Scott.

Intresting how ceramics and ceramists come up in diverse places, here are some examples at the Affordable Art Fair (great and fun initiative!) in Battersea Park. These heads by Johan Thunell appeared in The Guardian selection of the  of the best images from around the world.24 hours in pictures www.guardian.co.uk

These other heads are from Sara Scott at AAF 

Ceramics at Affordable Art Fair London

John Pollex at Contemporary Ceramics Centre

John Pollex at Contemporary Ceramics Centre