New pieces

Untitled 'box' forms, approx 21cm wide. Examples of the first resolved pieces in the new project, created in the studio over the last few weeks. On some the silhoutte is cut throught the front only, revealing the colour or image inside. On others, the silhoutte is cut through both front and back, offset slightly to create the illusion of a shadow.

Open Weekend at the studio

The Adam Pottery

Special weekend event

7^th & 8^th May 2011

11am - 6pm Saturday & 2pm - 6pm Sunday

 

Meet the six resident makers and have a look around the studios and gallery. A range of pieces will be on show. In addition, everyone is welcome to drop in and have a go at making ceramics themselves; handbuilding and throwing (processes will be demonstrated). If you would like to keep your work it will be glazed and fired for you at a nominal cost.  Come and feel what clay can do - you will never take ceramics for granted again! (Suitable for all ages - children must be accompanied.)

76 Henderson Row

Edinburgh

EH3 5BJ

Tel: 0131 557 3978

http://www.adampottery.co.uk/ 

Conclusion of project at Dundee

The Craft Bursary Project at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art is now finished. It's been a rewarding five months, and a unique opportunity to develop a new project. It will no doubt continue to have a positive effect on my work. The next few months will be spent using the experimental pieces, drawings and photos to create a resolved body of work back in my own studio. Source material will be added to as appropriate.
The project has served to highlight how influential such a residency or placement can be for creative development, with the time for thinking, reflecting, drawing and writing just as valuable as making itself.




Some of my previous work based on research into tourism will be exhibited at The Collins Gallery, Glasgow in 'Unite'. 16th April - 7th May.  www.collinsgallery.strath.ac.uk

'This Was On The Way To...' Jug, h. 20cm

Finished pieces

Work in progress. These pieces will inform a larger group of work to be created after the residency. Each is approx 21cm wide.

Project update

Test pieces are evolving. The images are of flat box-like pieces, unfired, with silhouettes cut out and layers of coloured slips and screenprinting. These will still be 'work in progress' objects; developed from the initial test pieces as a way of bringing together composition and form. They will potentially be wall mounted. These kind of 'work in progress' pieces are an important stage for me in arriving at finished work. The text is taken from 'On Growth and Form' by D'Arcy Thompson, the creator of the Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee. Most of the source material I've been putting together is from the museum - a fantastic collection of specimens. It not only offers a survey of natural history and the evolution of animal species but also a snapshot of how animals were viewed, collected, preserved and used for study. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/zoology/

I am putting together some writing that will (hopefully soon!) be developed into an article with more discussion of the artwork once further developed. Essentially however, the work will be an exploration of animal representation within formal collections, drawing on themes such as authenticity.

Project update

Only a few weeks to go on the Craft Bursary project...time has moved quickly! More resolved pieces are underway utilising all the previous experiments and tests. Images and info to follow...
New website is under development ready for launch soon, and potential articles relating to the project are underway.
I will have an article in Ceramic Review in the next issue -248 http://www.ceramicreview.com/ relating to my previous research project (MPhil).

Test pieces

At the end of the autumn term, pieces in progress were concluded and finished ready for firing in January. At this stage various test pieces have been completed (examples above), with accompanying drawings and written notes. These tests are focused on exploring composition mainly; layers of imagery built up at different stages.  The process of decision making is often complex, and bringing together all the different elements of form, image, colour, text etc. Much of this project is about allowing creative decision making to evolve organically, encouraging compositional development through the addition of each layer; form, then colour, then print, before the glaze and photographic decal. It raises questions about what constitutes ‘finished’ work…when are pieces ‘resolved’? How much of the composition should be pre-planned?

The pieces are likely to be wall mounted; 3D tests completed so far could potentially be wallmounted, or plinth based. Importantly though they are a move away from the vessel and are potentially going to be fairly 2 dimensional.