I have been busy creating the plaster moulds for the door handles this past few weeks, its slow progress but the first porcelain pieces are now being cast! I have about six weeks left before my first workshops. So have a lot to do! I am also researching new technologies, 3D printing and working with a ceramics factory to produce the larger scale pieces for the site specific work in Mortimer Forest.
The last week of the British Ceramics Biennial was this week so took the opportunity of visiting the festival in Stoke on Trent. I also went to talk about the Portal project and look at possibilities for future collaboration.
The old Spode factory is an amazing space, the Spode site houses a variety of exhibitions and commissioned works, from exhibits of new graduates work called FRESH, and site specific installations such as Keith Harrison Knowledge Is Power 6Towns project and Juree Kim’s exhibition Evanescent Landscape:Terraced Houses.
My children loved the Clay pit where they were able to use clay in its various forms from slip to dried out clay material. They loved the freedom of the space to develop and create site specific works.
