Recently added articles from Ceramics Technical:
Blue columns: Leena Mannila reports on a commissioned installation by Poul Jensen.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2007; Mannila, Leena ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] POUL JENSEN'S LATEST public commission Blue Columns at the Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo (2006) conveys his understanding of the ceramic medium. A collaborative project with his wife, painter and printmaker, Anne Marie Wilhelmsen, the aesthetic ...
Cuban ceramics biennial: Lowell Baker reviews an exhibition of 28 Cuban artists.
Jul 01, 2007; Baker, Lowell ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS I have had the pleasure and honour of being able to travel to Cuba on an official licence through The University of Alabama. In those few years I became friends with several Cuban artists and fell in love with the people and the ...
Ornamentation and detail: Tazra Miller finds a reference to art history in the work of Joni Moriyama.
Jul 01, 2007; Miller, Tazra ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHENEVER I VISIT A MUSEUM, I tend to focus first on the details of the object rather than its significance and cultural identity. I lean in to admire the blemishes, the artisanship and the surface. I crouch down low to meet it at eye level or, if it is ...
About a thousand chickens aka more meets the eye: Erin Jackson gives some reasons behind her installation works.
Jul 01, 2007; Jackson, Erin ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HAVING THE CHANCE TO WRITE about my work, my thoughts drift to my latest piece, About A Thousand Chickens, aka More Meets The Eye. It is an installation of about 1000 chickens and one large sculpture in the Eve Drewlowe Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. The ...
City and countryside, history and the potter's art: David Palmer has made a study of the history of pottery.
Jul 01, 2007; Palmer, David ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Oriental thinking, and indeed all pre-industrial thinking, knows that though nature may seem hard-hearted and her laws inexorable and cruel, yet she herself is the raw material you are working with and of which you yourself are necessarily part. ...
Oxides stains: Cathy Keys reports on her research aimed at extending a palette of ceramic oxide colour finishes.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; Keys, Cathy ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN INTRODUCED TO handbuilding ceramic forms using the coiling technique I was instructed in smoothing back and joining individual coils to ensure the cohesion and physical strength of a form. For me the resulting textural beauty of a handbuilt coiling ...
Goddesses of clay, wood, fire & salt: Felicity Martin was rewarded by her experiences at an international symposium.
Jul 01, 2007; Martin, Felicity ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AFTER THREE FLIGHTS, a bus ride, train trip, an embarrassingly short taxi ride and 32 hours from Sydney airport, I arrived, somewhat fatigued, at the closed gates of the International Ceramics Studio (ICS) Kecskemet, Hungary. With not a soul in sight even ...
This sturdy band: David Whiting celebrates the 50th anniversary of the CPA 1958-2008.(Craft Potters Association )
Jul 01, 2007; Whiting, David ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] THE CRAFT POTTERS ASSOCIATION of Great Britain (or more simply, the 'CPA', as most of us know it) celebrates its 50th anniversary over 2007 and 2008 (having been first conceived in 1956 and born two years later). Like a piece of familiar furniture, it is ...
The ceramic decal: visual diversity and conceptual complexity: Anna Calluori Holcombe and Glen R. Brown discuss the decoration process of ceramic decals.
Jul 01, 2007; Holcombe, Anna Calluori ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE CERAMIC DECAL, which entered into widespread industrial use by the early 20th century, has over the past 50 years come to acquire something of a split personality. On the one hand, it continues to lend uniformity to the decoration of mass-manufactured ...
Pixilated pictures: Barbara Rizza Mellin explains the techniques of Megumi Naitoh's ceramic mosaics.
Jul 01, 2007; Mellin, Barbara Rizza ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] THE MUSE OF creative inspiration can come from a variety of sources and often when you least expect it. Ceramist Megumi Naitoh found inspiration for her latest project while visiting the Worcester (Massachusetts) Museum of Art to view the 2001exhibition ...
Terracotta ear spools of ancient Mexico: Glen R. Brown discusses Pre-Columbian ear ornaments.
Jul 01, 2007; Brown, Glen R. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE NAHUATL TERM FOR THE SENSE OF HEARING, tlacaquiliztli, conveys an important secondary meaning which suggests that for the ancient Aztecs the human ear embodied a significance beyond its capacity to funnel sound. From the anthropological perspective as ...
Alice at the Allport: Fiona Tabart extends her experience into the world of ceramic decal printing.
Jul 01, 2007; Tabart, Fiona ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "SURE WE CAN DO THAT." Some stress, lots of questions, and a deal of apprehension can follow the utterance of these words. But life is a challenge--or so they tell us. Before we get started I'd like to put my hand up and declare that I'm not a ceramist, I ...
The Bickley ceramics project: Mark Bogdanovic writes on the design and use of a medieval updraft kiln.
Jul 01, 2007; Bogdanovic, Mark ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] ONLY MAD DOGS AND POTTERS go out in the midday sun--we're in the middle of a record-breaking heatwave and a group of ceramists prepare to light a medieval style kiln. For 26 years The Bickley Ceramics Project, child of David Dawson and Dr Oliver Kent, has ...
Seeing red: Paul Lewing has some tips for cadmium colours in China paint.
Jul 01, 2007; Lewing, Paul ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CADMIUM COLOURS ARE, as every china painter knows, the trickiest group of colours. They are notoriously hard to mix with other colours or fluxes, and tend to disappear entirely if conditions are not exactly right. When they disappear, they usually take any ...
The way a city expresses itself: Zhu Jinhua explains the urban ceramic work of Huang Huanyi.
Jul 01, 2007; Jinhua, Zhu ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] OVER THE PAST DECADE, Huang Huanyi has explored the application of blue patterns from Chinese traditional porcelain ware on to urban public art. For him, living and working in the shifts of Jingdezhen work-style and lifestyle featured the complexity and ...
The XX century ceramic 'Via Crucis' by Teonesto Deabate: Melanie Zefferino reports on the decoration of St Anthony Chapel after restoration.
Jul 01, 2007; Zefferino, Melanie ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] ACCORDING TO THE HISTORIANS, Villafranca Piemonte, a small village close to Turin, Italy, is firstly mentioned in an official document dated 1197. The nucleus of the Catholic church of St Anthony, nearby the town centre, is ascribable to the same age. The ...
Seeds of discontent: Laura McEwan discusses the ephemeral work of Virginia Jones.
Jul 01, 2007; McEwan, Laura ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN LOOKING AT 'ENVIRONMENTAL' or 'ecological art', the question comes to mind: can such art actually fulfil its intentions (that is relate to the environment or address environmental concerns)? Does art that is situated in the landscape have a right to ...
Visiting Chaozho: Jiang Yan-ze visits this tableware producing area in China.
Jul 01, 2007; Yan-ze, Jiang ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] CHAOZHOU IS AN old city with thousands of years of history. The city is located in the far east of Guangdong Province. It is famous for its cuisine. Delicious food should be served with nice utensils. Chaozhou porcelain is as well-known as its food. The ...
Expressive forms: Fathia Tarif discovers new concepts, trends and ideas expressed in ceramic art.
Jul 01, 2007; Tarif, Fathia ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN RECENT YEARS, contemporary art has shown interest in modelling clay and the new expressive capabilities of ceramic form using specific tools are able to realise artistic imaginary ideas. Artists nowadays are making every effort to achieve a merger ...
Kuntas of the shrine: Kari explains a triple challenge to her ceramics.
Jul 01, 2007 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I OFTEN QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT I am destined to be a potter. My background is in the performing arts. I have performed all my life; as a musician, as a stage artist, as a street theatre artist and as a teacher. Consequently my approach to ceramics has ...
