
Christie Brown: Anti-Hierarchical Hybridity
by Glen R BrownThe 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
Juris 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,…