Tag: ceramics

Mai Nguyễn-Long – interview

The artist explains feeling that she belonged neither to the Vietnamese community of her heritage or the Australian one of her birth led her to translate centuries-old Vietnamese wood carvings into her own artworks in clay and how through her…
Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

The artist and author Edmund de Waal has curated the first major exhibition of the Danish ceramicist Axel Salto, one of the greatest masters of 20th-century ceramic art
Elizabeth Fritsch: Otherworldly Vessels

With many objects drawn from Fritsch’s private collection, this first retrospective of the ceramicist in 15 years presents a rare opportunity to see her works
Lindsey Mendick – interview: ‘My brain is not my best friend’

What is it to be a woman who doesn’t have all her shit together and to be making work that is quite salacious or tongue in cheek? Lindsey Mendick opens up
Mella Shaw – interview: ‘All art is a form of activism. I use my practice to engage people with the emotion of environmental issues’

The artist talks about her award-winning work Sounding Line, which focuses on the overuse of marine sonar and its devastating effect on whales, and what she hopes it will achieve
Gillian Lowndes: Radical Clay

A post-apocalyptic landscape or an abandoned toolshed? This compact exhibition, by ceramics sculptor Gillian Lowndes, inspires the mind to wander
Shōji Hamada: A Japanese Potter in Ditchling

This show explores the works, friendships and shared practices of Hamada and Bernard Leach as well as other eminent artists working in craft and design in the 20th century
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery

This beautifully curated show includes everything from Rie’s practical domestic objects, such as casseroles and teapots, to her elegant signature vases and neat footed bowls. There are even pieces she brought to London in her suitcase as she fled the…
Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art

Expect the unexpected from this exuberant show of ceramic fine art, filled as it is with fantastical forms, uncanny creatures, unlikely shapes and unfamiliar scales
Lubna Chowdhary – interview: ‘Erratic is a useful analogy for a diaspora artist’

With swooping forms and blazing colour, Chowdhary explores the grey areas between east and west, sculpture and architecture, and the functional and the decorative. She talks here about the themes that underpin her work