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Displaying in non studio environment

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Working on displaying work in non studio environment

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My garden. Planted about fifty assorted tulips it’s exciting watching them emerge.

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And yet more
I had made up a lot of pieces so was a solid few weeks of assembling, glazing adding more flowers etc and the glaze firing again

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Further flower sculptures

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Close up of some serious gloop

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Gas fired porcelain with rare earth glazes

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Soda fired celadon glaze on textured interior

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My piece was a finalist in the Quarry art awards. Not a winner but still so pleased

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Adding more gloop and firing for third time

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Mel Ford

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Vivian Pastor

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Vivian Pastor I just love the colours in these. All underglaze. I need to try and go slower and see how mine would look without glaze

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Lake Hawea rock

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School wall moss.

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Moeraki and moss

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Moeraki boulders. Beautiful rocks.

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This is just incredible and must have taken an enormous amount of time

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The delicacy of these is stunning

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Apparently this is ceramic. Incredible!

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Some of the work. Still a work in progress

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We could have got a lot more in this firing if the stacks had been better planned

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First glimpses of the latest soda firing

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Flower vase in my garden

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Rocks displayed in the wild near Cromwell

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Copy of a rock found at Aramoana. Displayed at Aramoana

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On the edge of a small rock pool

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Getting Flying Dutchman vibes from this piece.

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Seaweed wrapped vessel. Soda fired and displayed at Aramoana

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More at Aramoama. This kind of reminds me of tree of life symbolism

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More placement of pieces at Aramoana. Seaweed dipped in paper clay, found driftwood and soda fired ceramic circle

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Completed flower sculptures. Components assembled and final firing done

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It looks like an industrial structure that has collapsed in on itself.

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Things has changed a lot from when I closed the kiln. Work has slumped sideways. But I still see potential

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Experimenting with sculptural pieces at Aramoana

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Gloopy pieces submitted for an exhibition

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Firing day - flowers for the kiln gods

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Closing up the soda kiln. This has become a big part of my pottery outside of school

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Exploring imperfection in my work that relates to human conditions. Is this a fault or does it reflect real life?

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Solid top and bottom and glaze inbetween.. this is amazing 

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Solid top and bottom and glaze inbetween.. this is amazing 

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Had done some crackle test tiles that had come out ok but not fantastic. I decided to trial a bigger surface and got really good results. The glaze colours could do with some work but the crackle was great. I rubbed Indian ink onto the piece and was really please with how it turned out.

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Discovered something exciting. We ran out of NZ China clay so substituted snowbrite China clay. The gloop had previously been quite fragmented crackle. With the substitute China clay it has become a very flowing gloop.  Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures but this is the next step.

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Splodging white glaze on to pieces. Hoping to stabilize these and to be able to fire them successfully.

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Second piece. Now I am joining these together with paper clay.

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Trialing how to put sculptural pieces together.

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Completed flower vase. Fired 4 times to get glazes right and to get the vase full as the flowers move in the firing.

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Pieces of the sculpture. I don’t know if they will survive being fired.

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The whole bowl. The glazes are the rare earth oxides. Fired to come 10

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Gas fired porcelain flower bowl. I am experimenting with different firings and glazes.

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Interpretation of my tableau of the Three Graces. I haven’t painted since kindy so was pleased with how they came out.

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The last time I can recall painting was in the Warkworth playcentre. I believe I went there three times before I went to school. I must have painted at some point at school but I have no recollection of that. I can however still recall the joy of a four year old experiencing paint for the first time.
Now I am just scared..

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The hares I have chosen are ones that have flaws. Cracks, drips, pieces peeling off , the imperfect. But all of them have their own personalities.

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More Vivian Pastor work. These are just so beautiful. Her artist statement really resonates with me.
“My work revolves around nature, the story of life and death, alongside the delicate fragments of memory”

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I am really loving these floral components by Vivian Pastor. Looking to experiment more with engobe and underglazes which I have not really done before. The vibrancy of these colours is amazing.

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Shannon Courtney makes rocks. Cardrona River rocks from 2021. She appears to mainly slip cast using the original rock as her mold base. She then cases from there and alters pieces.

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And even more rocks. Two fake rocks and one real.  I was really pleased how these turned out.

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More rocks

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Rocks completed. All pieces are hollow. Carved out and then out back together. Then texture is added with various found tools. These have been a really unexpected and satisfying project which I am continuing with in my personal practice. All rocks are based on real rocks.

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More by Kodai Ujiie I think he may be rubbing ink into the glaze to give the coloured crackle. But not 100 percent sure. Have just spent two hours looking at inks online. Sumi ink appears to be the one but is very expensive. May test with a black to begin with.

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Big handbuilt pieces ready to fire. These will be used as the base/frame for more sculptural pieces

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The delicacy of this is stunning. I am trying to create more movement in my floral pieces.

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Aggressive gloop peeling the clay from the vessel. This piece was glaze fired around five times

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Trying to construct geometric forms with chicken wire and cheese cloth dipped in paper clay.
Not going particularly well at all. Time for a rethink.

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The interior of my most recent gloop pot. Figuring out how to use gloop has been a huge learning curve.

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Rock from Kakanui. Quartz embedded throughout. So very unexpected and magical.

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Central Otago Rocks. Lake Hawea.

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Colour and texture. Adding gloop to handbuilt vessels. Layered glazes and multiple firings.

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I can’t draw very well so the drawing part of the diploma has been challenging. Did this module I have posed some of my hares in the style of “The Three Graces” I then need to attempt to draw them.