Tag: ceramics
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Artist Restores Broken Vases Using Gold Thread
It’s the stuff of nightmares… accidentally knocking over your mum’s prized vase and watching it smash into a million pieces on the floor below. Well we’ve got a beautiful solution for you. Embroidery artist Charlotte Bailey will reconstruct your vase for you by sewing the fragmented porcelain back together, using patterned fabric and metallic thread. Her creations…
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Artist Creates Surreal Ceramic Vessels That Are Half-Pottery And Half-Octopus
Ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto is intensely interested in the intersection of art and craft, whether a craft object can simply be decorative or if an artistic work can still remain functional. Her questions have resulted in a series of traditional ceramic plates, bowls, and vases embedded with unlikely objects from wriggling octopuses to entire buildings. …
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Ceramist Anna Whitehouse Created 100 Unique Clay Vessels in 100 Days
Anna Whitehouse is a ceramic artist based in United Kingdom who set a goal on January 1, 2018 to create a new bottle each day for 100 days. By limiting herself to a single form, Whitehouse was able to stretch her creativity to formulate new designs previously unexplored in her practice. Each white ceramic bottle was…
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Johnson Tsang Creates a New Series of Warped Face Sculptures
When we last sawJohnson Tsang (here), he masterfully crafted organic and fluid forms to bring otherwise mundane stoneware to life in his Living Clay series. Tsang is back with his latest series, Open Mind, where he continues to push realism’s boundaries in his sculptures of faces that are stretched and opened up in surreal ways. Tsang…
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Beautiful Hand-painted Ceramic Plate Installations by Molly Hatch
Massachusetts-based artist Molly Hatch creates immense installations of hand-built ceramic plates painted with a variety of patterns and scenes. Hatch frequently re-contextualizes historic images used centuries ago by old porcelain manufactures as well as paintings and textiles. Her largest artwork to date, Physic Garden, was installed last year at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, a monumental installation of…
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Spooky Tableware by Ronit Baranga Uses Realistic Mouths and Fingers
Israeli ceramicist Ronit Baranga‘s “body of work” is unsettling, to say the least. Sculpted from clay, realistic fingers emerge from plates while mouths lurk inside cups. The gnarled fingers and lips seem poised for action. We would most certainly hesitate before using any of these for fear of being bitten. The mouth is an interesting element…
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Living Clay Sculptures By Johnson Tsang
In his Living Clay series, Hong Kong-based Johnson Tsang uses masterfully crafted organic and fluid forms to bring otherwise mundane stoneware to life. The sculptor mixes ordinary crockery, traditional face sculpting and an expressive splashing motif to create sculptures that seem to be frozen in time. Living Clay demonstrates Tsang’s extraordinary creativity, which leaves a…
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Melting Ceramics by Livia Marin
When dropping a ceramic plate or cup we’ve all braced for the familiar sound of impact as the object explodes into a multitude of sharp fragments on the kitchen floor. Artist Livia Marin imagines a wholly different demise for ceramic bowls, cups and tea pots in this series of work titled Nomad Patterns. Inexplicably, each piece seems to…