by Carole Epp | Jul 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
From the website:“Recycled China is a design team consisting of artists
Thomas Schmidt and Jeff Miller. During the factory production of ceramic
products, there is on average a 4% loss rate; items which in one way or
another are imperfect and therefore do not reach the market. Once
fired, ceramic materials are no longer usable and simply end up in
landfills around the world. As an alternative to using mined materials,
Recycled China is about reusing ceramic waste and other industrial
waste into the form of architectural tile, functional design works, and
sculptural objects. “
www.recycledchina.com
by Carole Epp | Jul 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ceramics and Print, Art and Politics, Surrealism and Fashion, Design and Production…
In the twenty years since the first edition of Paul Scott’s handbook Ceramics and Print appeared,
printed surfaces have become commonplace in contemporary practice. To
co-incide with the imminent publication of a completely new edition of
the book, Guldagergaard is proud to host a seminar involving leading
figures in the field.
The seminar takes place at ICRC Guldagergaard October 26th-27th 2012 and will be chaired by Professor Paul Scott (KHIO, Norway), artist and author.
2 days seminar fee is DKK 2850 (including lunch and coffee both days)
2 days seminar fee for members DKK 2550 (including lunch and coffee both days)
2 days student price is DKK 950 (including lunch and coffee both days)
1 day seminar fee is DKK 1650 (including lunch and coffee)
Invited speakers include:
Professor Stephen Dixon (UK) is a Research Centre
Leader, Crafts at MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research and
Innovation in Art and Design) and is well known for his investigations
into ceramic print processes as well as his political works.
Charlotte Hodes (UK) is Reader in Fine Art at the
London School of Fashion. She has worked in a variety different media,
including paper, textiles and ceramics. She made a significant body of
work with the Spode Factory before its closure and is working with Paul
Scott on new research proposals for the Spode Archive.
John
Kindness (IRL) is an Irish visual artist who works in a variety of
media. In 1999 he completed a huge commission “The Big Fish” for
Donegall Quay in Belfast. Clad in lithographically printed porcelain
tiles the artwork has become a well known and loved feature of Belfast’s
redevelopment and renewal.
Megumi Naitoh (USA) is an emerging American artist
working with serigraphy. Her subject matter is sourced from cyberspace,
collaged with personal imagery. Her artwork plays with surface, media,
technology and our perceptions of them.
Paul Scott (UK) is Professor 2 at Oslo National
Academy of the Arts (KHIO) in Norway. He is well known for his
pioneering research into the graphic development of ceramic surfaces,
his characteristic artwork in blue and white, his writing and his
teaching.
Richard Shaw (USA) is based in Berkeley California.
He is best known for his pioneering, surreal, trump l’oeil sculptural
forms. He has been a significant figure in American ceramics for over
forty years and has been hugely influential in the development of
ceramic arts on an international level.
Ane-Katrine von Bülow (DK) is one of Denmark’s
leading ceramic artists. She has long worked with form and the graphic
surface, mixing digital mapping with low-tech paper transfer print
processes.
Matthew Raw (UK) has been a regular resident artist
at Guldageraard over the past 5 years. His impressed ceramic artworks
are variously political and commemorative in nature. In 2011 he
completed a commission for Elvaerket in Dahish town Holbaek. Matthew
will be working at Guldagergaard over the summer of 2012 and will be
presenting some of his works at the seminar.
And also make sure to add Paul Scott’s new book to your Christmas wishlist. Ceramics and Print – a completely new edition will be published in December 2012.
by Carole Epp | Jul 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
October 19-21, 2012
Lexington, Kentucky
Presented by Potters Council and hosted by Kentucky Mudworks
READ MORE: http://ceramicartsdaily.org/potters-council/the-ceramic-voice/
REGISTER NOW:https://www.pubservice.com/pr/pqconference/ceramicvoice12.aspx?PR=PQ%3DR207CV1
PRESENTERS: Linda Arbuckle, Lisa Clague, Ron Meyers, Karen Newgard, Kevin Snipes and Kurt Weiser
Tell a story in clay
Each of these talented artists tells us a personal story in clay. Each
presenter treats the surface in a unique manner, and will share their
surface techniques with YOU over the two-day conference. Explore the
possibilities with surfaces by combining new techniques to what you
already know. Come and find out how to tell your narrative in clay.
This conference is open to artists at all levels: from enthusiastic
amateur, to the teacher, and for the professional. No matter what level
you are, if you’re open to learning and connecting with other ceramic
artists then this is the conference for YOU!
Attendees will learn how to…
• Decorate utilizing the Majolica process
• Visually organize the surface for the viewer
• Use line, color, proportion and other design devices to give personality and resonance to a piece
• Use handbuilding method combining metal and low fire sculpture clay together.
• Incorporate other materials into sculpture such as dipping wire in casting slip, fabrics, stuffed animals, etc.
• Utilize nontraditional surface techniques on wet clay, bisque and post fired work.
• Use low fire oxides, glaze, and encaustic wax for finishing.
• Make multiple forms on the wheel and altering them as well.
• Do surface techniques using commercial underglazes, sgrafitto techniques, and multiple glazing methods.
• Carve, sprig, use sgraffitio, and mishima surface techniques.
• Use wax resist techniques on a green-ware multi-sided, slab constructed, and vessel-like porcelain object.
• Use china painting
• Mold making and casting techniques
by Carole Epp | Jul 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Next Show:
Image and Form
A
contemporary bombardment of imagery brought on by relentless
advertising and unyielding production of photographs have left many of
us forgetting that often these images are more than a visual
representation; instead possess shape, take form, and live in our third
dimension. There’s a depth to be considered.
Nine potters now give us the chance to investigate what it means to consider image and
form. Primarily through decal transfers these artists represent not
only the visual but rather the visual in conjunction with the tangible.
How do they come together? Where do they meet? And what’s it mean to
bring an over saturated world of images into the intimate processes of
handmade ceramic? All questions to be considered when viewing Image and Form, from July 6th-20th.
Artists participating: Dan Anderson, Israel Davis, Andrew
Gilliatt, Julie Guyot, Erik Haagensen, Forrest Lesch-Middelton, Justin
Rothshank, Jane Shellenbarger, and Rimas VisGirda.
Next New Work:
Mitchell Spain
“…inventiveness
can come out of necessity to solve or fix a problem. It’s the small
details of ingenuity, the creativeness and resourcefulness used, that I
try to capture in my work.” Working with porcelain, Spain offers us some
truly original and exceptionally outstanding ceramics this month. Upon
first examination, these pots don’t look or feel like pottery at all,
but rather an old oil container or beer can dug up from any Midwest
farming homestead. This is truly amazing stuff, and while Spain
is only fresh out of an undergraduate degree, this young man is showing
skill and potential well beyond his years.
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