Emma Giffard

Final Exhibition

2011-06-16T06:57:00.000-07:00

Karly la Fontaine

Jeanie Abbot

Nicola Crocker

Russ Kingston

CRYSTAAAL

Raku pots

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simple raku pots made almost 2 years ago.

Spiral jewellery made in 2010

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making the mould.

casting the mould using porcelain slip.

Bisque Fireing

Glaze

Gold leaf experiments.

Copper wire experiments.

Didnt work as well as i had hoped. The spirals fell and stuck to the props. still quite beautiful.

fossil

End result. A collection of pretty ear plugs.

Barnicles.

2011-06-09T13:48:00.000-07:00

First project from Year one based on coastline.

Crystaline Glazes for large spirals going in kiln today!

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Lubna Chowdhary

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Ceramics&Stitch (old work)

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patches//samples

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Back along in the beginning of the year i wanted to experiment surface design by combining fabric and clay. So I made a series of patches from fabric which i then turned into decals and transferred them onto handmade tiles. The outcome wasnt what i had hoped for and well to be honest i was fairly dissapointed, but the idea wasnt a waste! After realising that actually i had made a shoddy bunch of boring tiles i had a brain wave and came up with the idea of rolling the tiles into spirals and looking at surface area from a 3D point of view...thus leading on to my current body of work. So the moral of the story is that even when shit hits the fan or times seem hard theres always a light at the end of the tunnel!

steal

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Installations by Dale Chihuly

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www.chihuly.com

Sky Kim

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www.skykim.net

raw

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Ive noticed the beauty and simplicity in the raw, unfired clay. The coarse but fragile texture that naturally occurs has potential and could lead on to a whole new set of ideas and inspiration to work from in the future.

Emily Barletta

2011-06-08T06:41:00.000-07:00

http://emilybarletta.com/home.html

another favorite artist of mine. Beautiful...

thinking about location

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I find space inspiring and i am interested in how a space changes when something is added or taken from it. i think the spirals would work well outside in the woods, or on the beach even out in a city street. These ideas are definalty worth exploring and i think i will have to play with this idea once the course is over, simply because i do not have the time to be experimenting anymore. Now is the time for tieing up all the loose ends. still here are a few pictures or the spirals taken outside just to remind me what i could/ should and will be exploring in more depth...

first batch of spirals

2011-06-08T06:27:00.000-07:00

Clint Fulkerson

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love this work mucho.

www.clintfulkerson.com

my statement

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I have always been inspired by nature, creatures, cells, people, communites well come to think about it if i look hard enough i reckon i could be inspired by just about anything. Good or bad.
This body of work has been made in my final year of my Foundation Degree in ceramics. I won't lie the last couple of years havent been easy as i have discovered that clay isnt the easiest of materials to work with and that i am naturally inclined to work with fabrics, stitch, paper and paint. But i gave it a good go anyway and the results have been worthwhile.
I knew i had to make a body of work that i was going to be happy making, afterall being creative keeps me happy, i make work for me, i have no intention of being a buisness, (as of yet anyway) and the worst thing is spending months on a piece that you dont like. So i came at the project from a textile point of view as this is something i am good at and have always been inspired by. I wanted to create something colorful, vibrant and tactile. Something that was changable, something that was able to evolve into something else...if that makes sense? I didnt want the piece to be conceptual, i wanted to keep the work playful and free.
The process is relativley simple and involves rolling out thin slabs of clay, imprinting textures from different fabrics and then rolling the clay into spirals that stand upright. I then went onto to mixing a whole load of different glazes, mainly alkaline and lead based as they are more reliable. The colors used are a collection of my favorite colours, blues, purpels greens and yellows along with some gold silver and browns, which i spray painted to add a different material into the mix.
The final steps were grouping all the pieces together to create this assorted community of gem like objects.
Im still playing around with the final arrangement for the show, its hard to decide which works best when theres so many outcomes to choose from. But then that was part of the idea in the first place, the the work is changable and forever evolving.

Current work.

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