New Soda Work by Kenyon Hansen

by | Nov 16, 2011 | Uncategorized


There is a gorgeous album of new soda work by Kenyon Hansen doing the rounds on Facebook and I just had to share it here as well. Fantastic surfaces and forms all round.

Why oh why do such things pop up right before the holidays? My wish list for Father Christmas grows longer everyday.



Want to know more about his work? Check out the links below:

Kenyon Hansen: Hot Coffee and Tea (an article from Ceramics Monthly)

He is also a current Archie Bray Lincoln Fellow. See images and write up here.

Maker in focus @ the Mission Gallery

by | Nov 15, 2011 | Uncategorized

Claire Curneen | 19 Nov – 8 January 2012

Claire Curneen is one of Britain’s foremost figurative ceramicists, renowned for the haunting, emotive porcelain figures that she has been making for over 10 years. Fascinated by the human body, she explores themes of human alienation, femininity and the combination of bodily flesh and spiritual existence. Her making technique, a kind of porcelain patchwork, results in figures that are covered in handprints and shallow lines like contours or scars. These naked figures have extraordinary presence, awkward and vulnerable yet also self-contained and inscrutable. ‘Daphne’. The subject draws on the story of Apollo and Daphne. In the painting by Antonio del Pollaiuolo the Greek God pursues Daphne, she is grabbed by Apollo, he persists in having her but she prays to the Gods to help her and she is turned into a tree, her arms shoot upwards and become strong branches which towers over Apollo. Curneen’s interpretation show the porcelain figure is in a state of change, the branches engulf her and they are topped with gold suggesting the delight in her fate.
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