Pot Plant was a collaborative exhibition of ceramic vessels and floral arrangements that ran earlier this fall during London Design Week 2016. The show was put together by The Garden Edit and featured beautiful stoneware vases by Matthias Kaiser and Alana Wilson with floral arrangements by The Garden Edit and Fjura. Some of Matthias Kaiser’s vases are available here.
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Images via The Garden Edit, Alana Wilson Studio, Mattias Jose Kaiser, Fjura and Jessica Wang
September 27th, 2016 · No Comments
Today is the release of my first book Ceramics: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay which can now be purchased online. This was easily the biggest project I’ve worked on, certainly the longest and required a lot more stamina than blogging! I wrote this book to show the public what I was seeing online: artists bringing incredible creativity, inventiveness and liveliness to ceramics. I saw my role as curator and sought to include a diverse collection of artwork being made today. The book is by no means a survey of contemporary ceramics but more of a snapshot of an evolving, growing, reinvigorated art form.
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I’d like to thank all of the artists whose work is included in this book. I’d also like to thank Danielle Krysa for supporting this project and writing the forward. And I’d like to thank Chronicle Books for picking up the book and for their designer who did a knock-out job designing the book and it’s incredible cover with its cut-outs.
These works by the young Iranian-British artist known as Kour Pour look like Persian rugs but are actually large-scale paintings on panel. In another visual trick of the artist, the paintings appear at first glance to be in the style of traditional Persian rugs but actually incorporate foreign motifs and figures. Kour Pour is based in Los Angeles.
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via Artnau
January 24th, 2015 · 1 Comment
Handmade jewelry / sculpture by Anna Norrgrann.
“Between me and the metal there is nothing and what is outside us does not bother me in the moment. I fill the metal surface with small dots and it slowly changes, but in what way is, for me, so far unknown. I only know what I do and I continue to do that until the surface is almost filled. A bit of it is left untouched, as proof of what it once was.
Time dissolves and I am caught in the rhythmic sound from the hammer blows. The work shows me the way and despite the monotonic processing of the metal, I seldom get bored. My curiosity about the result drives me onwards.” via HDK
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Sculptures in Love with Architecture by Fabio Fernandez and Tom Lauerman.
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via Sight Unseen.
Studio Fludd is a design studio in Venice named after alchemist sir Robert Fludd. This is their handmade prototype Slow Wood. Play with your food!
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via Artnau
