Must see website (maybe this should be a new friday feature?)

by | Aug 6, 2010 | Uncategorized

For your friday morning coffee break here’s some cool design work out of Poland.

Selection of ceramic works by 10 young designers from Warsaw’s Fine Arts Academy Design Department. The projects were realised in the ceramic workshop lead by Justyna Bąbel-Piktel. The collection – consisting of objects produced in short series – is a result of explorations in the field of searching for new forms, functions and applications for ceramics. The objects are everyday household products – smart, surprising and beautiful. And most of all, ready for use.

DESIGNERS:

Karolina Chyziak
Helena Czernek
Krzysztof Czajka
Anna Górska
Gosia Lipińska
Ola Mirecka
Dorota Pakuła vel Rutka
Robert Pludra
Kuba Sobiepanek
Łukasz Wysoczyński

Check out the site here.

Firing Into the Future | Festival in Ceramics

by | Aug 5, 2010 | Uncategorized

Firing Into the Future | Festival in Ceramics

9th Festival in Ceramics
Firing into the Future
18, 19 & 20 September, 2010

Ceramics Victoria is pleased to announce a lineup of 7 National Ceramic Artists at the Festival including Paul Aburrow, Julie Bartholomew, James Cattell. Maria Coyle, Janet De Boos, Merran Essen and Avital Sheffer.

Firing into the Future offers a full program of workshops and presentations- a chance to see the process and techniques of the 7 practicing Australian Artists whose work is highly sort after.

The Festival is a biennial event organised by Ceramics Victoria that provides a forum for interested collectors, students and practioners to get together, exchange ideas, network and learn. Tickets may be obtained by down loading from our website and participants are welcome to come for the day only.Student discount applies.

Festival Program

Registration:: 9 am Saturday 18th September
1st Floor, John Building, SMB Campus
Opening: 10:30 am — 11:30 am Saturday
(includes slide presentation)

Demonstrations

11:30 am — 4:30 pm Saturday
9:30 am — 4 pm Sunday
9:30 am — 2 pm Monday

Demonstrators’ Exhibition

Opening: 6:30 pm Saturday 18th September
University of Ballarat Post Offi ce Gallery
Corner of Sturt and Lydiard Streets Ballarat
Work on sale

Firing Into the Future | Festival in Ceramics University Of Ballarat Ballarat Victoria Australia.
Telephone: +61 3 9899 2777

RELATED WEB RESOURCES

www.ceramicsvictoria.org.au

Flyer (PDF)

Porcelain Exhibition @ Mudfire

by | Aug 5, 2010 | Uncategorized


“Porcelain, an exhibition of 15 contemporary masters of the wily, translucent medium, opens at MudFire Gallery on August 7, 2010. Yet, the specific type of clay is just the beginning. When this show is seen in person, it is unmistakable that it is wildly, exuberantly, yet quite cogently about things of a porcelain nature, many different things: large and small, abstract and representational, glazed, unglazed, functional and dysfunctional. Featuring some of the top studio potters working in porcelain today, the exhibit is a sheer visual force, with its saturated colors and varied surfaces, and a delight to those whose weakness is for inventive form. Spanning the country, from Seattle to Buffalo to North Carolina and Atlanta, the show reflects contemporary styles and innovations that are a far cry from the famously macabre incidents that lead to the discovery of true porcelain in Europe in 1710.
Putting all its fragile eggs in one basket, the Porcelain exhibit argues for ceramics as a more than worthy subject. It reminds us that the art form incorporates quite a bit of painting and sculpture, thank you, and has one of the richest histories of any medium on the planet. This timely, satisfying show proves once more, that while ceramics is just another art medium, there is no art medium quite like ceramics. And no ceramics quite like porcelain. Chris Campbell , Jim Connell , Lucy Dierks , Annette Gates , Tina Gebhart, Ryan Greenheck , Bryan Hopkins, Marlene Jack, Kristen Kieffer, Allison McGowan, Karen Newgard, Emily Reason, Deborah Schwartzkopf, Gay Smith, and Julie Wiggins have works on display and for sale through September 25, 2010 at MudFire Gallery, 175 Laredo Drive, Decatur, GA. “
via MUDFIRE

Bruce Cochrane Workshop @ the Bray

by | Aug 4, 2010 | Uncategorized

Lidded Form and Surface Techniques
Instructor: Bruce Cochrane
August 12–15, 2010 Tuition: $400 (includes $40 lab fee)

Maximum Enrollment: 15
Open to artists with intermediate or advanced throwing skills

Registration Information During this four-day workshop, participants will focus on the relationship between form, lid and function. Proportion, scale, balance and utility will be discussed as participants complete specific projects throughout the workshop. An investigation of handles, knobs and feet will be encouraged and demonstrated, as well as various lid connections, and fitting lids to thrown and altered forms. A number of pre-fired surface techniques, which may be applied to any material or process, will be explored. Students will be encouraged to push their ideas beyond familiar solutions, make some awkward yet interesting work and return to their studios excited about new possibilities and ideas.
A soda firing will take place during the session and participants are asked to bring stoneware or porcelain bisque work to experiment on during the week. Cochrane will give a public artist talk on Saturday, August 14th at 7:30 pm in the Bray Resident Center.

Bruce Cochrane was born in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In 1972 he received a BFA from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, followed by an MFA from Alfred University in Alfred, New York. Since 1979 he has taught in the ceramics program at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada, and has conducted workshops throughout North America, Europe and Asia. His work has been exhibited in over 300 exhibitions and is in such notable collections as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics in Toronto.