Clay and Paper Cubes

A clay cube made by slab construction featuring cut outs and textured surfaces. Inspired by a paper cube made to the same dimensions.

A paper cube made out of a net with a ruler, pencil and a papercut knife. 

Clay Experiments with Texture and Oxides

Previously made clay samples have been biscuit fired. Painted a mysterious oxide on as a wash, then sponged off with a wet cloth to highlight the texture present. Glaze applied in two small strips.

Clay Samples

A series of experiments in clay - including imprints, scores and crosshatching, approximately 15" across.

Brass Rings

My first attempt at making rings. One plain (centre) one with a hammered surface (right) and a rustic ring, with the oxide left on whilst polishing. All made from rectangles of brass cut to size.

Artist Research - Gillian Lowndes

Spending much of her childhood in India she studied in London and Paris. From 1975 she taught part time at Camberwell College of Arts and Design and Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design.

I like the angles on Cup and Base and the cup itself is very distinctive in comparison to some of her other work, such as Collage with Bathroom Tile', which I think is quite ambiguous. Although considered exciting in her time, I dislike the lack of colour in her work and I find it uninspiring and a little bland.

Lowndes' Wikipedia

Artist Research - Caroline Bartlett

Bartlett has studied at the Chelsea School of Art, Goldsmith's College, Leeds University and the Central School of Art and Design. Textiles is her main medium, but she often combines her textiles with other media such as porcelain.

This is my favourite piece of her work, I believe it to be named Bodies of Knowledge, Volume 5: Arbiters of Taste (2003) in the Victoria and Albert Museum. 

I like her use multimedia use, and particularly the raw edges that have been left out of the embroidery hoops, as she could have hemmed them, but I personally think that it would have ruined the effect.

Bartlett's Website

Artist Research - Eduardo Chillida

Chillida wanted to be a footballer, but was injured and ended up studying architecture and art. He moved to Paris and started to work in plaster and clay. From very early on his work gained public recognition, such as the sculpture above Berlin (2000) for the Office of the Federal Chancellor in Berlin, and Monumento, (1971) in Düsseldorf. 

I like how he added the alloy to Berlin to make the orange rust colour. I think that the textures of his work is very flat, he could use textures a bit more, but overall I enjoy his use of forged iron.

Chillida's Biography