Clay Houses
by Craig HinshawSketching the work is the best method I’ve found to force myself into close observation, deep looking. During the sketching process I learn things about the work I would never have noticed. Somewhere,…
Lee Jeongmee’s Recent Works: Nature Incarnated
Jeongmee Lee makes useful works, almost all of which are quotidian objects such as vessels and furniture. Since she began working with Joseon white porcelain, glaze and lacquer 25 years ago, she has s…
Ceramic art: The Kashi Tiles of Sindh
Figurative and Symbolic designs are forbidden in Islam so artists started introducing abstract and geometrical patterned tiles to decorate Islamic architecture. This has now become the signature style…
The Land of Symbols: Korean Roof Tiles
by Leman KalayGiwajips’ roofs are sumptuous visual feasts that transport the viewer to the time of their construction – it is hard when viewing them not to imagine that you are living in the Joseon Dynasty, such is…
Felicity Aylieff: Someone of Her Time
During her 17 years at the RCA, Aylieff has taught more than 500 students who were attracted by the strength and professional Jingdezhenreputation of the course and the profile of the staff who teach…
Silica
One of the things that I enjoy most about being a ceramist is the fact that my work is truly composed of the earth, from its constituent components, from materials presumed to be of little value, iner…