Social Ideology in Ceramic Art
by Ali Uslu, Kemal UludağSince the beginning of history, the relationship between society, ideology and art has been shaped by the conditions of their particular contemporaneous time. Over decades, it is people who shape the…
Christie Brown: Anti-Hierarchical Hybridity
The impression of transcendence conveyed by classical portrait busts mingles strangely with the earthly connotations of lop ears and ovine noses, as if an affinity of contraries were forming in a limi…
Ogawa Machiko: Elemental Abstraction
Avoiding any artificial sense of deliberate primitivity, yet inspired by a sense of liberation from the narrow, hallowed strictures of lifelong training in the use of wheel and kiln, Machiko does not…
Juris Bergins: Creative work as a search for identity
by Lijana NatalevičienėJuris Bergins, born and raised in Riga, the capital of Latvia, did not come to ceramics by a direct route. As he began his artistic journey, the young artist tried various areas of creative activity,…