Considering Art Podcast – Raewyn Harrison, ceramicist

London-based, New Zealand-born ceramicist Raewyn Harrison has made the River Thames the focus of her practice. In this episode, she talks about the hobby of mud larking in which people discover all manner of everyday objects from centuries past in the Thames mud at low tide and how her own discoveries are made into ceramics, how she photographs old maps and de-commissioned installations in the Thames estuary and transfers them on to porcelain, her involvement in public projects and workshops around the Thames, her “protest” bottles, and about her latest work for the Museum of London’s mud larking exhibition.

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Considering Art Podcast – Carolyn Tripp, ceramicist

Carolyn Tripp makes traditionally-shaped porcelain ceramics but gives them a contemporary twist. In this episode, she tells of how family members first piqued her interest in ceramics, why she gave up a successful career in advertising to follow her passion, how she flourished during her degree at Camberwell College in London, how she helps support people with mental illness through creating ceramics after processing grief of her own, and how she gives her pieces a modern feel.

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Considering Art Podcast – Molly Hatch, ceramicist

Molly Hatch is an American fine art ceramicist who has become internationally famous for her multi-plate art installations. In this episode, she speaks about how she studied drawing, painting and printmaking but fell in love with the process of working with clay. She talks about how she successfully built up her own designer brand on functional pottery while making stand alone artworks as well, and how these have developed into multiple plate installations.

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Considering Art Podcast – Attua Aparicio, multidisciplinary artist

In this episode, Attua talks about winning the Design Museum’s 2024 Ralph Saltzman Prize for design, how her work intersects design, craft and art, why she left Spain for the UK, the importance of sustainability in her process, her experiments in fusing borosilicate glass with clay to create sparkling ceramics, how a shelf-unit she made recalls memories of her childhood and how she is experimenting using ceramics with textiles.

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Considering Art Podcast – Carol McNicoll, maverick ceramicist

In our latest podcast episode, ceramicist Carol McNicoll talks about her early beginnings making textiles for repertory theatre, how she was able to subvert the traditional idea of ceramics while at the Royal Academy of Art, how decoration, functionality and playfulness are essential features of her work, and how the 2003 Iraq War led to a more political and satirical aspect to her oeuvre.

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James Oughtibridge – Ebb and Flow

Like so much good art, ceramicist James Oughtibridge’s work only begins with a vague idea of what he wants to end up with. His sculptures grow and evolve from slabs of clay to round, curvaceous forms in which perspectives change and deceive around undulations, peaks and troughs defined by sometimes smooth, sometimes sharp edges. There are openings like blowholes, spheres resembling bubbles with a certain lightness enhanced by the interplay of light and shadow that contradicts the weight of the medium.  Continue reading “James Oughtibridge – Ebb and Flow”

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