Maquettes for Sculpture and Pottery
by Jennifer OwenI have been using maquettes, 3-D models, in my sculpture and pottery work for many years. A maquette is a great tool for exploring outcomes with efficient investment of energy and materials.
A House on the Street
If the two lines that weave humans in length and width are defined as temporality and spatiality, the most important space in human awareness is converged into a structure called a ‘house’. Numerous h…
Silent Sentinels: The Gateposts of Adil Writer
In most human societies, save a few, the boundary is a critical aspect of structuring societies and thereby bringing the order that allows for civilization to progress. They have also, of late, been t…
Bernard Leach’s Equestrian Roof Tiles: and their location within West Counrty Traditions
by Debra Sloan, Peter SmithStanding in the Cube Gallery, in the centre of the Leach Pottery, is a very rare mid 1920s earthenware sculpture of a horse and rider by Bernard Leach. This sculpture had been roughly cemented onto a…
Unsanctioned: The Ceramic Artworks of Julie Lovelace
If you go down to Johannesburg, South Africa today ‘be sure of a big surprise’. Amongst the grimy brickwork you may glimpse intense
Jim Melchert – Works of Resonance
In the spoken word performance, 100 statements about Myself, 1992/2013, at Southern Exposure Gallery in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, US Jim Melchert calmly stood before a restles…