Monthly Archives: October 2016

Encounter with a mystical spider

 

 

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 Peru – gold nose ornament – MET

1st century B.C. –2nd century A.D

 

 

Huntsman spider drops in

 

I arose one morning last autumn around 6am and as I sat down at my desk, I noticed high on the wall facing me, a large Huntsman spider. They are approximately the size of a clenched fist and they used to scare the bejessus out of me till I learnt they were non poisonous to humans. Huntsmen have the speed and agility to catch cockroaches and other insects., so I welcomed its presence. Around 7.30am when I opened the blinds to let in the morning sunshine it scattered sideways behind the abstract painting on the wall to my side, as they are nocturnal creatures. The next morning it was there again, this time lower on the wall in my direct line of sight and it hid behind the painting once again when I let the sun filter in.
This was a daily occurrence for 3 months during which time I learnt that they were regarded by the Druids, American Indians, Pre Columbian Central Americans and other ancient cultures as a source of creative inspiration (on a mystical level) and as the guardian of the ancient language and alphabets and that ‘those who weave magic with the written word probably have a spider totem’. Ted Andrews in “Animal Speak” mentions that ‘the Spider reminds us to awaken our own sensibilities to be more creative in life’

 

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Huntsman Spider on my wall

 

To the Osage American Indian tribe, spiders were a special symbol of patience and endurance. To the Blackfoot, they represented intelligence and skillfulness. The Ojibwe associated spider webs with their dream catchers, a type of traditional hand-woven Ojibwe craft meant to filter out bad dreams. Spiders were also highly regarded as providing the means to weave dreams and auspicious aspirations into reality. Maybe this is why to many Native Americans, it is still considered bad luck to kill a spider. It was considered good fortune to have a spider weave a web outside your window.
They called the female spiders ‘Grandmother’ because she kept and taught the mysteries of the past and how they would affect the future. The spider had the awareness to teach us how to use the written language with power and creativity, so that your words would weave a web around those who read them. (useful for a blogger) They say it is good to visualize a resplendent web that represents your deep past to bring order into the present. The intricate, fine detail on a spiderweb is truly a creative masterpiece and a sight to behold.

Associated with wisdom and divination, the spider serves as a channel of communication with the spirit world and, as such, its totem is also linked with leadership and rulers. Because the ground-dwelling tarantula  (earth spider) lives underground in spider silk-lined nests, it is thought to be closer to the realm of the dead who are buried in the earth. The spider’s ability to produce spider silk also places it in a special group of animals and insects that share skills with humans-in this case, the talent to spin or weave.
The highly creative web that the spider weaves has strands like the spokes of a wheel running in a straight line from the edge to a spiral in the middle. It is symbolic of an inner portal, more so because some have eight sectors, and are made by a spider who has eight legs and 8 eyes. This connects them to the ancient 8 sector Magic Square, long recognized by the ancient cultures of the Egyptians, Chinese, Druids, Mongolians and Peruvians to represent inner pathways and powers.
Spiders have a life span of only 3 years and tend to expire in late Autumn, so as to avoid another winter. This knowledge was useful when I came to my desk one cold morning and witnessed my spider friend draw up its legs into a symmetrical dying pose and calmly perform its final exit.

 

 

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Model Amica, Absynth photography, Italy

 

 

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Amphora vase with reliefs of golden nymphs and  spider web

 

 

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Andrew Whitehead spider sculpture – ‘run Scotty run’

 

 

 

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Double handle Amphora vase

 

 

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Annemarie Heinrich – German/Argentine photographer

1930’s Buenos Aires

 

 

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Riessner, Stellmacher,  Kessler porcelain and enamel spiderweb vase

Turn Teplitz, Bohemia, Austria, 1905

 

 

African ceramic spider bowl, Bamum peoples. Cameroon

 

African ceramic spider bowl, Bamum peoples. Cameroon

Early to mid 20th century

The spiders decorating the rim are associated with divination throughout the Grassfields region. They represent wisdom and are associated with the earth and the ancestors.

 

 

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Ziegler Schaffhausen,

Switzerland -1920’s

 

 

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Moorcroft vase with large black spider

Humler & Nolan

 

 

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Exquisite Art Nouveau porcelain vase with spider motif

 

 

 

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Tall Hopi ovoid jar with spider design by Burel Naha

 

 

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Art Deco spider motif perfume bottle

 

Black Widow Spider hat by Kirahley Kreation on Etsy

Black Widow Spider hat by Kirahley Kreation on Etsy

 

 

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Pale blue vase with flowers and gold lustre spider web – Carlton Ware

 

 

 

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Fieldings Crown Devon British Art Deco jug

 

 

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‘Men’s Spider Initiation’ –  Clifford Possum

Australia, 1999

 

 

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Japanese Maple Leaves and Spider Web dish

(Traditional luck symbols)

Edo period

 

The outside spider web motif gate at Witches House in Beverly Hills.

The outside spider web motif gate at ‘Witches House’ in Beverly Hills.

 

 

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Charles Catteau – 1904-06

Vase with relief decoration of a spider in its web.

 

 

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Barbara Hepworth

 

 

 

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David Macdonald

Ohio-Craft Museums exhibit ‘In Touch With The Spirit’

 

 

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Carlton Ware jug

 

 

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Art Nouveau Tri Spider Brooch – Georges Fouquet

 

 

 

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Amphora vase titled ‘Sovereign of the Night’ ($18,000 sold).

Image courtesy Treadway Toomey.

 

 

 

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Goyin Silveira, Mata Ortiz

 

 

 

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Gourd Dream Catcher  by Pamala Redhawk

 

 

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Photo –  Leila Amat Ortega

 

 

 

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Rainforest Shield Design – by Garra (Spider) Napolean Oui

Spiders of the venomous kind were totems of the traditional rainforest people of Far North Queensland. This totem is still used today by the Djabu

 

 

 

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Vase olla with spider motif  – Goyin Silveira, Mata Ortiz

 

 

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Nazca spider

 

 Vintage Czech Hand Made Perfume Bottle with Crown Topper. Love the Spider

 Vintage Czech Hand Made Perfume Bottle with Crown Topper.

 

 

 

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Orient & Flume glass paper weight

1978

 

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Rouge Royale Carlton Ware ginger jar

 

 

 

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Nippon Moriage Spider Jug

 

 

 

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Rozenburg – Eggshell porcelain bud vase with spider in web decoration

1903

 

 

 

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Spider web veil on statue

 

 

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Spider Cobweb Teapot by MissFiendishApparel on Etsy

 

 

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Red Spider Lily ikebana

 

 

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Flapper spider hat

BoringSidney  – Etsy

 

 

 

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Spiderweb ring by Italian jeweller Staurino Fratelli. In Italy spiders mean good fortune and money.

 

 

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‘Pucci’ spider vase, Italy 1952

Company “Ceramiche Pucci”, founded by Ing. Domenico Pucci in 1947 in Umbertide, near Perugia, was an offshoot of the Rometti factory

 

 

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The giant spider ‘La Princesse’ coming out of hibernation by La Machine

Liverpool

 

 

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Tarantulalong Arana Pollito mosaic by Isidora López

 

 

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Web of Intrigue Egyptomania poster

 

 

 

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Gothic Art Nouveau structure

 

 

 

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Red Back Spider Mug – Tanya Bechara

Sydney, Australia

 

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Spiderweb steel bench by Metal Abuse

 

 

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Rhinestone spiders

 

 

Spider Web Fascinator/hat

Spider Web Fascinator

 

 

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Sculpture by the Sea – 20th anniversary

 

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Geoffrey Bartlett’s ‘Embrace’ is made from copper, steel and stainless steel.

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2016.

 

Bondi’s Sculpture by the Sea,  20 Oct – 6 Nov,  2016

 

Late Spring in the Southern Hemisphere brings warm weather to Sydney and its annual sculpture festival at Bondi Beach, now celebrating its 20th year. The picturesque coastline for 1.4 km between Bondi and Tamarama is transformed into the world’s largest annual free-to-the-public outdoor sculpture exhibition. More than 100 sculpture works by Australian and international artists are being showcased this year, including artist representation from Asia, Europe, Middle East, New Zealand, South America, UK and USA.

Sculpture by the Sea has never been curated to a theme and would continue to support the artist’s right to freedom inventing their own universes “inclusive of all modes of sculpture, demonstrating sculpture’s history and development”, founding director, David Handley said. Since its inaugural show in 1997, ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ has inspired 1168 artists to create more than 2000 sculptures.
Some sculptors tend to think of their creations as ‘breathing’, and I’m sure their sculptures would be responding to the vibrancy of this iconic location. The sculptural walk will be running from 20 October – 6 November. Also shown are images from Cottesloe ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ which runs in Perth in early March.

 

 

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Yumin Jing’s ‘Travelling Bag’ 2016

 

 

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Johannes Pannekoek with his winning work ‘Change Ahead’.

 Photo: Steven Siewert

Johannes missed the deadline to freight his work from Perth to Sydney so he loaded it onto a trailer and drove it 3297 km across Australia to Bondi. His effort was rewarded as Change Ahead, a curvaceous piece made of rusted corten steel, has been named winner of the $60,000 Aqualand Sculpture Prize at Sculpture by the Sea, 2016

 

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‘Flying Over Venice’ – Li Wei,

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, Perth 2016. Photo Li Wei

 

 

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‘Celestial rings I’ by Inge King

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2016

 

 

 

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Tony Davis, ‘Manscape’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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Karen Macher Nesta, ‘Sea Sponges’,

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016. Photo Jessica Wyld

 

 

 

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R.M.RonGomboc – ‘From The Beginning To Eternity’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016  Photo – Jessica Wyld

 

 

 

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Peter Lundberg, ‘Open’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney 2015. Photo Gareth Carr

 

 

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Koichi Ishino, ‘Wind Blowing’,

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Gareth Carr

 

 

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Vince Vozzo, ‘Moon Buddha’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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 ‘State of Square’ by Fatih Semiz

 

 

 

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Norton Flavel, ‘Dust’ 

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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Arissara Reed, ‘Acoustic Chamber’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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‘Tortoise’ by  Mark Swartz, Reuben Solomon, Charmaine Tung

Sculpture by the Sea 2011

 

 

'Taking Leave' by Peter Tiley sculpture at the ocean

‘Taking Leave’ by Peter Tiley

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2008

 

 

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Ayad Alqaragholli, ‘Embrace’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2014. Photo Jarrad Seng

 

 

 

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Ben Fasham, ‘bjf13′

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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Benjamin Storch, ‘Undulation’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016. PhotoClyde Yee

 

 

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Byeong-Doo Moon, ‘Our Memory In Your Place’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2014 – Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

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Ben Juniper, ‘Ghost Gum’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2013. Photo Jarrad Seng

 

 

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Masayuki Sugiyama, ‘Eyewalk Rock’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2014. Photo Clyde Yee

 

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Byung-Chul Ahn, ‘Life Reflection xx #1′

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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Margarita Sampson, ‘Voyagers I & II’ 

 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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Chris Bailey, ‘The Majestic’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2014. Photo Jessica Wyld

 

 

 

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Dale Miles, ‘Parallel Thinking Space’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

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Deborah Redwood, ‘Noah’s Arc’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

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Elyssa Sykes-Smith, ‘A shared weight’ wood block sculpture

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo Jarrad Seng

 

 

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Ewen Coates, ‘Multiverse’,

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo William Patino

 

 

 

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GhostNets Australia, ‘Ghost Net Crocodile’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2013. Photo Jarrad Seng

 

 

 

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Hilde A. Danielson, ‘Upside Down Again’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2013. Photo Jarrad Seng

 

 

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Johannes Pannekoek, ‘Convolution’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2012. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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‘Dearest’ by Margarita Sampson

Peter Parks-AFP/Getty

 

 

 

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Keizo Ushio, ‘Oushi Zokei Gate To The Beach’,

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016. Photo Jessica Wyld

 

 

 

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Koichi Ogino, ‘Camel Country 14′

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2014. Photo Ian Sanderson

 

 

 

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‘Mountain Air – Circles’  – Koichi Ishino

Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

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Lubomir Mikle, ‘p.o.p.’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

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Lucy Humphrey, ‘Horizon’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2013. Photo Jarrad Seng

 

 

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‘Many Many’ – Stephen King Clyde King

 

 

 

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Petra Svoboda, ‘The commodification of imagination’,

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2012. Photo Brett Winstone

 

 

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‘Prelude to the Waves’ by Fatih Semiz… powder coated steel

Sculpture by the Sea 2009

Photo – Shyaman

 

 

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R.M.RonGomboc_’Cycle Of Life – Longevity’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

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‘Sogana’ by Michael Le Grand

photo by Shyaman

 

 

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Tim Macfarlane Reid, ‘One Door Opens’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2015. Photo Jessica Wyld

 

 

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Tim Macfarlane Reid, ‘Sea Change’

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, Perth 2014. Photo Jessica Wyld

 

 

 

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Yolande Rose, ‘Lithoid’

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015. Photo Clyde Yee

 

 

 

 

 

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Contemporary clayartist concepts

 

 

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Accretion vases by the Haas Brothers

 

Many horizons ago, I’m sure that the first time someone held a lump of clay, the feel of its malleable tactile mass would have tempted them into forming some biomorphic shape. Followed by the conclusion that it’s so much easier to make a bowl this way then sculpting it from rock or carving it from wood. When a child holds clay, their instinctive reaction is to begin shaping an object. It would have to be one of the easiest and accessible means of 3d creation that exists. The ancient Egyptian god Ptah held this bountiful substance in such high esteem that he decided to create a whole human race with it on a pottery wheel from an egg shaped form.

 

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Ptah throwing clay

 

Concept, design, form, colour, surface integration, materials, and techniques all become part of the challenge for creating ceramic art and even though it is one of the oldest art forms in existence, it is still evolving. Its utilitarian practicality has endured while more diverse decorative applications keep appearing.  The language of clay makes many amusing conversations and some intriguing new chapters of design ideas in the clayarts are presented here.

 

Haas Brothers

 

 

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Accretion vase – Haas Brothers

 

 

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Accretion sculpture –  Haas Brothers

 

 

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Accretion vase – Haas Brothers

 

 

 

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Turquoise accretion vase

 

 

 

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Twin neck accretion vessel – Haas Brothers

 

 

 

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Accretion jungle of vessels – Haas Brothers

 

 

 

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Long twin neck accretion vase – Haas Brothers

 

 

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Lidded accretion vessels – Haas Brothers

 

 

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Pastel white and lavender accretion vessels

 

 

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Accretion vessel gathering – Haas Brothers

 

 

Hella Jongerius

 

These animal-filled porcelain bowls were meticulously crafted by hand and designed by Hella Jongerius for a commission by Nymphenburg, a Bavarian porcelain manufacture since the mid-18th century. The series was produced as a celebration of the animal collection found in their archives, and incorporates 3D creatures within the simple glazed bowls.

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Hella Jongerius for Nymphenburg

 

 

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Hella Jongerius for Nymphenburg

 

 

 

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Ann Agee, ‘Blue Painting’, 2012,

Wall art – glazed porcelain, steel armature

 

 

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Indefinite Vases – Studio EQ

 

 

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‘Lume’ – salmon pink candleholder with gold details by Alessandro Zambelli  

 

 

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Sixties Danish ceramic sculpture

 

 

Atelier Vierkant

 

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Atelier Vierkant – half clay pebble seating of the ‘K- Series’

 

 

 

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Atelier Vierkant ‘aht 150′ series mixed clay planters

 

 

 

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Atelier Vierkant ‘KBO’ series

 

 

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Atelier Vierkant ‘KBO’ series, ceramic seating

 

 

 

National Gallery Singapore Atelier Vierkant 'pebble' floor seating

 Atelier Vierkant ceramic ‘K Series’  pebble floor seating

National Gallery Singapore

 

 

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A set of stackable bowls with different colours and patterns are by Matteo Cibic

 

 

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 Ceramic pumpkin with golden extensions – Barbara Nanning

 

 

 

Carole Feuerman hyper-realist sculptures

 

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Back of a woman all sculpture – Carole Feuerman

 

 

 

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Female bodyboard surfer wall sculpture – Carole Feuerman

 

 

 

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Blue bikini meditation hyperrealist sculpture – Carole Feuerman

 

 

 

Scholten & Baijings

 

Dutch designers Scholten & Baijings tableware set based on the archives of hand-painted porcelain company Arita – 1616

 

 

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Scholten and Baijings porcelain tableware

 

 

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Scholten and Baijings porcelain tableware

 

 

Laura Carlin

 

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Lion ceramic tiles – Laura Carlin

The New Craftsmen

 

 

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Leopard ceramic tiles – Laura Carlin

The New Craftsmen

 

 

Anders Ruhwald

 

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Anders Ruhwald ‘Bowl for a timeless house’

2012

Photo – R H Hensleigh & Tim Thayer

 

 

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Anders Ruwhald – ‘Crystal Ball (the future)’

Photo – R H Hensleigh & Tim Thayer

 

 

 Afreaks exhibition at Design Miami, 2015 by Haas Brothers

 

 

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Afreaks ceramic surreal creatures by Haas Brothers

 

 

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Afreaks ceramic animals – Haas Brothers

 

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Afreaks exhibition – Haas Brothers

Design Miami 2015

 

 

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Afreaks ceramic surreal creatures by Haas Brothers

 

 

 

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Afreaks ceramic creatures by Haas Brothers

 

 

 

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Haas Brothers gold ceramic bench and floor lamps

R-company, New York

 

 

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Shell house or Nautilus by Architect Javier Senosiain

 

 

Roger Arquer Studio

 

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‘Touch Lamp Vase’ by Roger Arquer for Bosa 2

Touch is an hybrid between a light and a flower base. The flowers work as a switch for the light, when they are touched, the light goes on or off.

 

 

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Funnel Vase is a ceramic flower-vessel with one opening on the side, as a funnel shape. The funnel helps to change the water without having to remove the flowers. The old water can be easily poured out through the funnel and replaced with fresh water, without a mess.

 

 

 

Matthew Plummer Fernandez

 

Everyday items such as detergent bottles and a watering can are 3D scanned using a digital camera and subjected to algorithms that distort, abstract and taint them into new primordial vessel forms. “The algorithms basically deform the shape by mathematically repositioning its set of coordinates,” Plummer Fernandez told Dezeen. “Different equations create different effects – the simplest are simple multiplications to stretch an object, while more advanced formulas can twist or smooth the object or go as far as adding new features such as spikes.” The designer sends the altered files to be 3D printed with colourless sand particles and tinted resin.
Matthew holds a BEng in Computer Aided Mechanical Engineering from Kings College London and an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art.

 

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Digital Natives vessel by Matthew Plummer Fernandez

 

 

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Digital Natives bowl by Matthew Plummer Fernandez

 

 

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Digital Natives vase by Matthew Plummer Fernandez

 

 

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Digital Natives jug by Matthew Plummer Fernandez

 

 

 

 

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Multi faceted Digital Natives vase by Matthew Plummer Fernandez

 

 

 

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Elena Salmistraro dog figurines referencing a merry-go-round, replacing horses with Molossian Mastiffs

 

 

 Eleonor Bostrom 

 

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Coffee cups with internal dog figurines – Eleonor Bostrom

 

 

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Internal dog figurines cup – Eleonor Bostrom

 

 

 

Erosion Set –  Studio Floris Wubben, Nl

 

Studio Floris Wubben designed an installation inspired by the solar system with which unique textures can be created in sequence. Within this installation, a gas burner’s flame etches a texture onto an unbaked porcelain object. The porcelain reacts to the high temperature, causing various layers to burst from the object. By combining different glaze techniques with this etching technique, contrast arises in colour and texture.

 

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Studio Floris Wubben flame textured bowl

Kiln fired by Cor Unum ceramics

 

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Gas fired swivel flame and rotating base apparatus –  Studio Floris Wubben

 

 

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Studio Floris Wubben flame textured bowl

Kiln fired by Cor Unum ceramics

 

 

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Studio Floris Wubben flame textured bowl

Kiln fired by Cor Unum ceramics

 

 

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Studio Floris Wubben flame textured tumblers

Kiln fired by Cor Unum ceramics

 

 

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Studio Floris Wubben flame textured bowl

Kiln fired by Cor Unum ceramics

 

 

Studio Floris Wubben epoxy clay pressed vessels

 

During the manufacturing process the epoxy-clay is pressed through the extrusion profiles with a diversity of possible combinations.

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Studio Floris Wubben

 

 

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Studio Floris Wubben pressed vase with red tints

 

 

 

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Floris Wubben press machine

 

 

Guillaume Delvigne

 

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Porcelain embroidery bowl – thread your own pattern – Guillaume Delvigne

 

 

 

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Porcelain embroidery bowl – Guillaume Delvigne

 

 

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Guillaume Delvigne’s DPI Lighting for Industreal- pendant lamps are available in black or white unglazed porcelain.

 

 

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Icelandic designer Garðar Eyjólfsson has created a range of yellow ceramics by melting and moulding sulphur.

 

Carolyn Genders

 

“I work spontaneously, creating forms and surfaces that evoke the feeling I have when I am part of the landscape, striving to convey nuance of shape, balance and mass and creating mood and atmosphere. I’m interested in creating pieces that have harmony of form & surface. Landscape & seasonal change loosely interpreted is inspiration for my new series; noting atmosphere, mood, rhythm & texture . Coiling is rhythm attuned to this natural beat. Inspired also by paintings of British artists of 1930’s 40’s 50’s.”

 

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Carolyn Genders

 

 

 

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Carolyn Genders

 

 

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‘Entity’ Alupoaie Andrei

2015

 

 

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‘Incense Burners’ – Ionna Vautrin

 

 

 

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Jesse Small – ‘Triton Ghost 1’

2013

 

 

Juliette Clovis

 

French artist Juliette Clovis produces hybrid works that merge nature, history, and myth with the female form, covering simple porcelain busts in wildlife, flora, and spikes.

 

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Blue and white porcelain bust –  Juliette Clovis

 

 

 

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Blue and white porcelain bust –  Juliette Clovis

 

 

Joanne Jaffe

 

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‘Bering Straits VII’ – –  Joanne Jaffe

 

 

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‘Jungle Speak’ — Joanne Jaffe

 

 

 

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Judit Vargac 

 

 

 

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Les Manning

 

 

 

Leah Jackson

 

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Leah Jackson

 

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Leah Jackson

 

 

 

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Max Lamb basalt crockery collection

 

 

 

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Michelle Summers 

 

 

 

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Pepa Reverter’s ‘Secret Love’ trinkets are a place to keep secrets or something that you love

Bosa trinket Collection

 

 

 

 

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‘Sweet Souvenir’ by French designer Constance Guisset is for sending secret messages or hiding small objects

Bosa trinket Collection

 

Jessica Harrison

 

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Jessica Harrison-tattooed figurines

 

 

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Jessica Harrison-tattooed figurines

 

 

 

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Cup from the Bosa Table Collection by Jaime Hayon

Bosa trinket Collection

 

 

 

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 Jonathan Adler contemporary ceramics unicorn

 

 

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Larisa Churkina ceramic and paper mache sculpture

 

 

Madamepomm

 

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A modest ‘Venus of Willendorf ‘  in a bikini Fat Lady Coin Money Box by Madamepomm—Artfire

 

 

 

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‘Bull Terrier Money Box’ –  Madamepomm Artfire

2015

 

 

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‘Dalmatian Mug’ – Madamepomm – Artfire

 

 

Claire Partington

 

Claire Partington ‘Hoops’ sculptures portray a whimsical concept that plays with perception. The avant-garde art pieces are delicate and demure, depicting monarch-resembling subjects that are draped in beautiful textiles and dressed in the most ornate of jewelled accessories.” I started making sprigged vessels inspired by the salt glazed “bartmann” vessels, but with the look of tin glazed earthenware from the 1600’s. This evolved into the fully figurative vessels I’m making at present, starting with the bottle shaped mantua dresses. The figures often have interchangeable head “stoppers” to reflect the transformation of the subject and to allow a sense of play with the object.”

 

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Claire Partington ‘Hoops’ sculptures

 

 

 

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Claire Partington ‘Hoops’ sculptures

 

 

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Suhama Tomoko

 

 

Summer architectural  sculpture project 2017, Abruzzo Italy

 

Founded in 2011, Farm Fonte Trocchi is located in Abruzzo in the mountains next to the Adriatic sea in Italy. In the spring/summer of 2017 they are hosting an earth architecture gathering to construct an inhabitable sculpture in clay that is finished with terra-cotta elements made in their wood fire kiln located on the farm. The main structure will be constructed using a mixture of clay and vegetal fibre (straw from cereals or hemp) They also create furniture with the same method

They are extending an invitation for interested participants and are offering free accommodation and meals prepared from local organic produce for a duration of 4 days included in the price of the workshop. Farm Source Trocchi now has 3 independent houses and 2 hectares of cereals, legumes and vegetables, with fruit trees, medicinal plants,hens and pastures in rotation with crops, to house and feed a variable number of people (5 – 15)

 

 

Dimora Energia Workshop

2 – 5 April 2017  – location: Fattoria Fonte Trocchi, Tufillo, organic farm in the South of Abruzzo/ Italy

 

A workshop for ceramists, architects, archeologists, bakers, housebuilders and anyone interested in getting to know how to construct the wood fired Roman oven, developed by Enrico Poggiali, for cooking ceramics, bread baking and heating the house all at the same time,
maximizing the thermic benefit of the combustion.

We will have the possibility to share experiences from different fields of knowledge, ranging from archeology to historical architecture, from natural history to the knowledge about natural materials and techniques such as the use of raw clay in architecture and the cooking of ceramics.

Lectures from Enrico Poggiali, Luigi Lisi, Bernhard Neulichedl

Number of participants: minimum 8 persons, maximum 15 persons –

Cost: 180 euro + membership of Dimora Energia

Organic food and accommodation in clayhouse, normal house or tent is for free for the duration of the workshop
and 10 euros a day for who wants to stay some days longer on the farm after the workshop

info about the workshop: www.dimoraenergia.org  mail.: [email protected]  tel.: 338 830 7779
info about the farm: www.fattoriafontetrocchi.wordpress.com  mail.: [email protected]

 

 

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Farm Fonte Trocchi.

Abruzzo, Italy

 

 

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Clay construction, Farm Fonte Trocchi

Abruzzo, Italy

 

 

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Farm Fonte Trocchi, sculptural clay structure frame

 

 

 

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Abruzz0, Farm Fonte Trocchi

Italy

 

Fattoria Fonte Trocchi

 

 

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Andrea and John Gill – decorative ceramic art

 

 

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Andrea Gill  – 2014

 

Andrea Gill believes that ceramics is the ideal media to combine surface color and three-dimensional form. The thrust of her work is more preoccupied with the decorative than functional, which liberates the scale of her works and scope of her designs. Detailed imagery and patterning is an ever present feature of her ceramics, which she successfully integrates into her original shapes. These tend to involve appendages of wing like handles (not dissimilar to hispano moresque alhambra vases) and vessels surrounded by larger vessels, supporting more utiisation of detail, and bringing forth a refreshing journey of discovery, wonder and a sense of evolving form. Her work is decorated, often employing hand-cut stencils, which generate stunning layers of color and glaze on clay vessels that allude to the history of ceramics, textiles, painting and ornament.

An extract from Andrea Gill’s artistic statement:

“I choose to make vases and bowls because those forms allow the most open interpretation of shape without losing the iconic identity of the object. The scale of the vases, from two to six feet, gives me room to explore color, shape and pattern. The bowls provide a more intimate space where I have been exploring narrative ideas, recently involving mythology. My devotion to surface patterning has also proven to be an addiction that satisfies my love of stylized image and my firmly positive response to the word ‘decorative’. In the motifs of my overlaid figure/ground surfaces, I suspect I am often exploring my subconscious. The sources for the motifs range from my garden to doodles to texts of historical ornament, such as Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament. There is the affirmation of historic precedence of the painted pot, and the possibilities of current clay and glaze technology to support my vision.”

Her husband John Gill displays a similar ceramic trajectory of a restless dynamic with lots of movement, but featuring more asymmetrical forms, highlighted by multi faceted surfaces of contrasting colours and combinations of expressive shapes. John Gill knew he wanted to be a ceramic artist when he was told you couldn’t make sculpture out of clay. Failing to grasp the rationale behind this assertion, it motivated him to pursue a path in ceramics to prove this was a fallacy. He hasn’t looked back since.

 

John Gill’s Artist Statement –

“In my work I try to utilize simple techniques. This allows for freedom of ideas and process. Shape, form, use and color in form and to question other possibilities. My work uses shape and form to inflate color. Working within the realm of function expands the potential. History of ceramics, painting and sculpture collide. Clay has a simple directness – it prints beautifully.”

 

 

Andrea Gill

BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1971, and, after a serendipitous job working for a potter, went on to study ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute. She is currently a professor of ceramic art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. She has been a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation and Anderson Ranch and in October 2012 Andrea Gill worked in the Voulkos Visiting Artist Studio as a Visiting Artist Fellow.

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Andrea Gill – vase and bowl set

2013

 

 

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Footed ceramic vessel with elaborate lid – Andrea Gill

 

 

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Sculptural head vase – Andrea Gill

 

 

 

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Vase with surface pattern decoration – Andrea Gill

 

 

 

 

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‘Cherry Blossoms on a Winter Day’  – Andrea Gill

 

 

 

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Andrea Gill

Harvey Meadows Gallery

2014

 

 

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Andrea Gill

 

 

 

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Vase bowl set – Andrea Gill

 

 

 

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Female figurine vessel – Andrea Gill

 

 

 

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Andrea Gill

 

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‘Iznik Vase’ with arabesque decoration – Andrea Gill

 

 

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Ceramic vessel with tapestry and fabric print textures – Andrea Gill

 

 

 

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Andrea Gill

Harvey Meadows Gallery

2014

 

 

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Ceramic vessel encasing a vase- Andrea Gill

 

 

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Andrea Gill

Alfred University School of Art and Design Image Gallery

 

 

 

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Andrea Gill vases

 

 

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Andrea Gill matching vessels

 

 

 

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Andrea Gill

Low fire ceramic, Majolica glaze, engobes

34 inches height

 

 

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‘Hidden Glance’ – Andrea Gill

1990

 

 

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Madonna series ‘Sweet’ – Andrea Gill

Low fire ceramic, Majolica glaze

28 x 4 x 9 inches  — 2010

 

 

 

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‘Mithila Basin’ – Andrea Gill

 

 

 

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‘Red and Pink Flower Vessel’ – Andrea Gill

 

 

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Face sculpture vase – Andrea Gill

 

 

John Gill

 

John Gill is a Professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where he is currently Chair of the Division of Ceramic Art.. He has degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute (BFA, 1973) and The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (MFA, 1975).

 

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‘Bottle #7’ – John Gill

 

 

 

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Stoneware ‘Lone Vase’ – John Gill

 

 

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Geometric pattern bowl – John Gill

 

 

 

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Ceramic Ewer – John Gill

 

 

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Ceramic platter – John Gill

 

 

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Ewer – John Gill

12-x-13-x-9.5-inches

Photo Brian Oglesbee

 

 

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Ceramic platter – John Gill

 

 

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Ceramic bottle – John Gill

 

 

 

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Teapot – John Gill

 

 

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Abstract ceramic ‘Ewer 3′ – John Gill

Harvey Meadows Gallery

 

 

 

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John Gill – large glazed stoneware teapot or pitcher

 

 

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Sculptural ceramic vase – John Gill

 

 

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Ceramic Ewer – John Gill

 

 

 

 

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John Gill mug

 

 

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Polychrome stoneware radish platter 2010- John Gill

16 x 22 x 5 inches

Photo Brian Oglesbee

 

 

 

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John Teapot 2010

 

 

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Abstract shaped vase – John Gill

 

 

 

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Vase by John Gill

 

 

 

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Wine Ewer with handle – John Gill

height 13 inches

 

 

 

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Lidded abstract jar  John Gill

31 x 12 inches

 

 

 

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Sculptural ceramic ewer – John Gill

 

 

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Andrea and John Gill teaching

 

 

 

 

 
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