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Central Saint Martins UAL p13
Joanna Aymard
She is originally from Paris and focuses on the exploration of shapes, colours and textures. Her main work involves porcelain or paper porcelain. Here she has made a series of lamps that are a representation of her own experiences.
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Louise Gooden
She reflects upon the imagery of wartime displacement, conveying a sense of being compacted and crushed in both the artifact and the abstract.
Her current body of work exploits the materiality of clay, giving form to the concept of compression and intense pressure.
Shao Qi Tan
She originally comes from Singapore and is both an artist and ceramic designer. Her work highlight the delicate tension between strength and fragility, referencing the structural resilience found in both the man-made and natural worlds.
Morley College
This year’s graduates from the Morley HND College have exhibited at the New Designers show at the London Business Centre, 29th June- 2nd July, following on from their successful graduation show, Elements, at the Morley College Gallery.
They came together in the midst of the pandemic, from different professional backgrounds sharing a passion for ceramics. These quieter times gave them the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the ceramic studio and extend their making skills that included; traditional hand building and throwing techniques, together with, producing plaster moulds.
They were encouraged to explore the materials together with testing additions in saggars and mixing their own glazes. Whilst they nurtured individual creative styles, they also developed conceptual understanding, reflecting on how the work connects to the world of contemporary art.
In addition, they were schooled in the business aspects of being a ceramicist, developing professional skills of designing a product and pitching this to a market.
For all those involved it’s been a tremendous learning journey which they will treasure, having learned from skilled tutors and supportive colleagues.
Barbara Sulzberger
The work explores human relationships and the bonds we develop to nurture these relationships. The vessel can be interpreted as a metaphor fort he condition of our emotional lives and relationships.
Belinda Murray
Since childhood she has expressed herself with clay. Inspired by the environment, especially the natural world and drawn to organic forms.
She plays with classical shapes adorning them with botanical elements and high gloss glazes creating a balance between uniform and unique.
Susie Lonie
The work is sculptural, playful and quirky. She senses other worlds just beyond our reach and tries to capture something of their essence, giving each piece a unique personality.
The piece opposite Scorpio the scorpion – from the 13 Zodiac Constellations series of vessels is glazed slip cast earthenware elements, hand built with alterations.
Richard Innes
He relished the challenge of throwing big pots having been seduced by the ancient Greek red and black vases in the British Museum and wanted to explore the possibilities of re-interpreting these pots in the modern world. Material: Earthenware with terra sigillata and glaze.
Vladka Thwaites
In the ‘Pavement’ collection, it reconceptualises the Ancient Greek ‘lekythos’ form through coil building with black clay. After bisque firing, it is then embellished with impressions of the ironmongery of London pavements, taken during long walks negotiating the urban landscape.
